Clearmark Solutions, a UK supplier of digital coding solutions, has launched its latest automated e-commerce system, partnering with shrink and stretch wrapping specialist Yorkshire Packaging Systems.
Mounted within a bagging unit, Clearmark’s Direct Print & Apply ICE Vulcan labelling machine integrates with the Hugo Beck Flexo e-Comm range of bagging machines.
Processing more than 1,200 packages per hour, the system prints and applies address labels directly onto the film as the product is enveloped into a shipment bag.
Designed to fulfil e-commerce GDPR compliance rules and guarantee accurate labelling, the ICE Vulcan receives real-time address delivery data and can communicate in a range of protocols including ZPL and SATO.
By interfacing with a company’s order or warehouse management system, it safeguards customer data and helps to eliminate potential operator error.
Clearmark estimates that to achieve the same level of hourly throughput manually would require between eight and 10 bench packers.
“By further developing our unique Direct Apply application for the e-commerce market, we are able to remove the complexities of the conventional pneumatic tamp application seen in other systems,” said Steve Hancock, LPA sales engineer and Print & Apply labelling specialist, Clearmark Solutions.
“By applying directly onto the moving film, it allows a smoother, quicker, more reliable label application, which is essentially maintenance free.”
Designed for any bagged e-commerce consumable application, ranging from fashion apparel, household furnishings, stationery, white good spares, the Flexo e-Comm measures the length of the product for the bag length and adapts accordingly.
It adjusts to the product dimensions sealing the front and side edge and squeezing the air out to form a tightly fitted bag.
The machine is reportedly compatible with all fully recyclable centre-folded films, including biofilms and up to 70% recycled content films. Optional open bag perforations and bag resealing adhesive strips are available.
What’s more, the integrated ICE Vulcan direct print and apply labeller, featuring a non-pneumatic design, accurately places labels on demand without the need for an applicator.
Height adjustable, the Clearmark printer system also features Intelligent Motion technology, which enables precise automatic control of components and an 80% reduction of wear parts.
“The ICE Vulcan prints three times faster than traditional applicators on the market, using a solid-state printhead mechanism and no compressed air,” added Hancock.
