Multivac cooperates with Bell-Mark

With imme­di­ate effect Mul­ti­vac has the exclu­sive rights to mar­ket the Inteli Jet HD series of print­ing solu­tions from the US man­u­fac­tur­er Bell-Mark Sales Co. The inkjet print­ers are based on the piezo tech­nol­o­gy, and their main fea­tures include a large print area and excel­lent print qual­i­ty on a wide range of mate­ri­als. They can either be inte­grat­ed into new pack­ag­ing lines or retro­fit­ted to exist­ing ones.

“Bell-Mark is a lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er of dig­i­tal print­ing sys­tems for pack­ag­ing machines, and the com­pa­ny has estab­lished itself as a reli­able part­ner with many of our cus­tomers,” says Luc van de Vel, Vice Pres­i­dent of the MCP (Med­ical, Cos­met­ics and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals) Busi­ness Unit, explain­ing the rea­sons behind this strate­gic step. “Thanks to this coop­er­a­tion, we can now offer high-per­for­mance dig­i­tal print­ers for chal­leng­ing require­ments with­in the pack­ag­ing process, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the sec­tors of med­ical prod­ucts, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and cosmetics.”

The Inteli Jet HD series of print­ers are drop-on-demand dig­i­tal print­ers, which can be con­fig­ured for either one or two colours or even the full CMYK colour scale. In con­trast to CIJ (Con­tin­u­ous Ink Jet) print­ers, which pro­duce a con­tin­u­ous jet of ink, the noz­zles of DoD print­ers only sup­ply the ink drops that are actu­al­ly required for the print. This is very effi­cient and there­fore par­tic­u­lar­ly cost-effective.

Thanks to its print res­o­lu­tion of up to 600 x 600 dpi and a print­ing speed of up to 150 metres per minute, the tech­nol­o­gy enables texts, logos, vari­able data and var­i­ous codes to be print­ed pre­cise­ly and cost-effec­tive­ly on a wide range of mate­ri­als such as paper, Tyvek, film or alu­mini­um. The high-qual­i­ty UV inks dry very quick­ly with state-of-the-art UV LED lights, and the ink spread remains very small even with the coarse-fibred Tyvek mate­r­i­al, so that even small icons and text can be repro­duced per­fect­ly. The Inteli Jet HD print­ers are designed for a large print area and can print films either com­plete­ly or par­tial­ly with a high lev­el of accu­ra­cy. The mod­ules can be fit­ted with up to twelve print­ing heads, so that a com­plete blank film with a width of up to 630 mil­lime­tres can be printed.

Com­pa­nies in the med­ical and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries in par­tic­u­lar ben­e­fit from the print­ing sys­tem’s high degree of flex­i­bil­i­ty, which is becom­ing increas­ing­ly impor­tant in view of the require­ments of the UDI Reg­u­la­tions as well as serialisation.

All Bell-Mark mod­els can be inte­grat­ed into Mul­ti­vac pack­ag­ing lines. Cus­tomers also have the oppor­tu­ni­ty of hav­ing their exist­ing lines retro­fit­ted with the print­ing sys­tem by Multivac.

The print­ers and the cor­re­spond­ing con­sum­able mate­ri­als will be mar­ket­ed by the more than 80 sub­sidiaries with­in the Mul­ti­vac Group. Mul­ti­vac is the exclu­sive sales part­ner of Bell-Mark for all regions world­wide — with the excep­tion of the USA, Cana­da, Mex­i­co, Puer­to Rico and the Domini­can Repub­lic. The spe­cial­ists at Mul­ti­vac Mark­ing & Inspec­tion will under­take the com­plete after-sales ser­vice as well as the sup­ply of spare parts, con­sum­ables and user train­ing. Thanks to their many years of expe­ri­ence in print­ing with a wide range of tech­nolo­gies, they can ensure that the max­i­mum reli­a­bil­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty of all installed solu­tions is achieved.