News | March 3, 2003

Allprint Smart S, the World's Fastest Laser Marking System, Withstands the Harshest Environments

Allprint <i>Smart S</i>, the World’s Fastest Laser Marking System, Withstands the Harshest Environments

Applications: high-speed packaging lines running beverages, pharmaceuticals and other products

Lasertechnics introduces the new Allprint Smart S laser marking system to the North American market. As the fastest laser marking system in the world, the Allprint Smart S handles line speeds of up to 2,000 feet per minute to mark as many as 75,000 products per hour. Ideal for harsh environments, the Allprint Smart S features sealed stainless steel housings that protect against water and dust, meeting IP 65 and NEMA 4 washdown standards.

Using vector technology, the Allprint Smart S offers exceptional marking versatility with no font, graphic or code restrictions and a large marking field that maximizes positioning and design possibilities. The system can laser mark fixed and variable alpha-numeric data, bar codes, logos and other symbols onto plastic, glass and cardboard, as well as labels. Easily and quickly accommodating a variety of containers, the laser marking system features a no-tools-required changeover routine. The marking unit can be pre-aligned to the marking zone via xyz adjustments.

The Allprint Smart S laser marks moving and stationary products without contact, producing permanent codes and graphics that resist chemicals, UV light and abrasion to deter tampering and falsification. Compared to inkjet and dot-matrix laser marking systems, the Allprint Smart S offers the highest quality mark available.

The Allprint Smart S eliminates consumables such as inks, solvents and laser gases. With trouble-free start-up and no scheduled or unscheduled shut downs for ink replenishment, cleaning of clogged nozzles and polluted marking areas, the Allprint Smart S improves production efficiency. This laser marking system offers virtually maintenance-free operation over thousands of hours, reducing operating costs to generate a rapid return on investment.

The Allprint Smart S is easily installed on new or existing production lines. The system features a compact supply and marking unit and standardized interfaces that seamlessly integrate with a variety of conveyors and labelers. Configuration is quickly accomplished online through external devices such as a PC, PLC or host computer working with the RS232 port or directly at the system via a hand-held remote controller.

With every Allprint Smart S laser marking system, Lasertechnics offers Smart Job software, a full-feature text, data and graphic parameter editor that is optimized for marking and coding packages. This innovative user-friendly interface can be used on any standard PC under Windows® 98, 2000, ME, XP or NT.

The Allprint Smart S can produce standard industrial fonts such as Type 1 Windows® and True Type; machine-readable codes such as OCR, 2D-matrix and bar codes; graphics and logos. The system can mark sequential and batch numbers as well as automatic date, time and shift coding with a real-time clock function.

About Lasertechnics
Lasertechnics supplies laser equipment to the electronics and packaging industries. In the twenty years since its inception, Lasertechnics has successfully installed thousands of laser coding systems for companies around the world in the pharmaceutical, food, beverage, electronic, cosmetic, automotive and household products industries.