LINX Printing Technologies has launched the Linx 9000 Series Continuous Ink Jet (CIJ) printer range, designed to address common production line challenges to deliver consistently high-quality codes.
Among its innovations, the Linx PrintProtect battery backup helps eliminate unplanned downtime, particularly in factories where mains power outages or staff pulling power plugs at shift-end can occur. Linx PrintProtect provides up to three minutes of continued printing before commencing a full shutdown procedure if power is not restored.
To prevent operator errors, the printer incorporates new user interface (UI) features. These include functions to quickly switch the UI language and create GS1-compliant Data Matrix codes with the GS1 code builder, while the customisable printhead cleaning prompts and on-screen 12-hour consumables countdown are intended to further protect uptime.
The 9000 Series is described as the ‘industry-first’ CIJ to communicate with other systems natively using ubiquitous REST API. Linx Message Studio adds flexibility with remote message creation, editing and direct transfer from a PC or USB drive.
“Linx has long been renowned for its practical innovation: developing products and services that make our customers’ lives easier,” said Mark Cooper, senior director product and marketing. “With the Linx 9000 Series, we have truly focused on designing for the realities of the daily lives of production managers. These are incredibly busy people, dealing with everything from daily targets to quality defects to staffing issues. At the same time, they want to achieve an effective work-life balance, where their time away from the plant is not impacted by being called back because something has gone wrong.
“The 9000 Series therefore tackles the challenges that production managers have long had to accept living with, designing out the issues that industry manufacturers have traditionally treated as ‘customer training problems’. As a result, Linx 9000 Series printers enable production managers to have consistently high-quality codes, while spending far less of their valuable time on coding and marking.”
The range is making its global debut at interpack in Düsseldorf.
