Label Print & Apply

📦 So simple. So smooth. So flexible. Now installed and running in production — the flexibility of this case and shipper labelling solution speaks for itself. Label the side panel, or rotate the entire box 90° to label the short face, all via a simple guide rail movement — no tool change, no faff, no compromise. 🔹 Smooth, reliable…
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🧠 Tamper Evidence. Without the hammers. Tamper-evident plastic containers — like Berry Global’s UniPak range — are a smart packaging choice for chilled food, deli, and takeaway products. But despite their popularity, square polypropylene tubs, Tupperware-style pots, and other snap-lid containers can be difficult to seal efficiently on automated lines. With locking lid tabs requiring pressure from multiple angles,…
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📦 Clever design creates a case/shipper labeller without compromises. Labelling outer cartons and shipper boxes shouldn’t be complex — but that doesn’t mean it should be limited. This solution, shown with our workhorse ALstep T applicator, demonstrates just how adaptable a well-designed system with some smart features like a ‘track guided’ conveyor can be. Label the side of the…
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⚙️ ALcode Smart Tamp – the intelligent choice. This new variant of our proven ALcode print & apply system features our ‘Smart Tamp’ module — a composite carbon fibre cylinder with vacuum generated by a fan pulled directly through the tube, allowing flexibility for different label sizes without change parts. Application is controlled by an intelligent ‘light touch’ logic,…
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📦 Make it. Box it. Label it – efficiently. Almost every manufacturer of something puts that something in a box — but too often those boxes are still being labelled by hand. Even with smaller batch runs, there’s a better way. This system uses our ALcode ‘airblast’ print and apply applicator, with a SATO NX print engine and optional…
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🤡 It’s April Fools’ Day… but saving space and cost is no joke! It’s foolish to spend money on unnecessary handling equipment—especially when floor space is at a premium for so many businesses. At ALTech, we often integrate our labelling machines directly into the drive of a case sealer, rather than positioning them after the machine. 🎥 In this…
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🌿 #Spring is just around the corner… and if you need to label around a corner, you know where to come! 😉 🎥 Watch our ALcode print & apply machine in action, featuring a high-performance @SATO Europe print engine. Designed to fit within a compact space, this tailored solution tackles a challenging ’round corner’ front and side labelling application…
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Tamp/Tamp-Blow/Air-Blow application methods 🌬️ are commonly used with print and apply machines because they allow the label to be printed in a different rotation to its application, e.g. printed Portrait, applied Landscape. These solutions all have their place, but often, they are selected through necessity – being the only option available to the competitor – and are not ideally…
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ALcode with Vacuum Belt Applicator offers a host of benefits over other comparable print and apply machines. These include: – One-to-one print (the label printed is the label applied) ✔️ – Long labels or labels of different sizes/shapes ✔️ – No compressed air ✔️ – Best available print technology from Zebra/Sato ✔️ – The possibility to hot-swap the print…
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ALcode with ‘air-blast’ applicator is an ideal print and apply solution for bakery products, as demonstrated in this recent video. Like all ALcode machines, the solution offers the ability to change the label data at the touch of a button (e.g. for short batch runs), combined with a non-contact application compatible with the delicate nature of the product, including…
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