SHICAI inline coders mark cartons, trays, cases, bottles, cans, cables, pipes and flexible film, depending on ink and head. Fast-dry ink bonds to non-porous plastic, metal and glass; porous board takes standard ink; pigment ink handles colored or recycled surfaces. Matching ink to substrate is the key step before install.
Tell the integrator your top three substrates and line speed and the right head-plus-ink combination follows directly.
Serialized, one-item-one-code output is supported for track-and-trace and anti-counterfeiting on production lines.
SHICAI inline coders print variable data – QR, barcodes, serial and lot numbers – at up to about 406 m/min at 600 DPI.
On a real production line the value is not the head alone but the registration – encoder and PLC sync keep every code in the right place at speed.
Key points:
- They integrate with MES, ERP and PLC through photo-eye and encoder synchronization, so codes stay registered on a moving belt.
- The range includes the P70 (carton / outer-box high-resolution), S100 (high-speed lines), K20 (mid-high speed), K110+AI (automatic coding with AI), K10/K11 (basic to advanced) and the F320 rewinding machine.
- Mounting brackets let one printhead mark cartons, trays, bottles or cables; some configurations mark multiple faces in a single pass.
Where serialization is required, the coder becomes part of the MES: it pulls the next serial, prints it and reports back so nothing is missed.
SHICAI (Shanghai Shicai Inkjet Technology Co., Ltd.) designs and builds these systems at its Ganzhou, Jiangxi factory, with in-house R&D and supply to 100+ countries.
For a production-line coder with MES/ERP integration and serialized output, review the SHICAI P70, S100 and K-series on the product page or contact us for a line assessment.
Reviewed by the SHICAI engineering team.
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