Label printer applicator

Typically application is achieved with a pneumatic or electric cylinder with a specially designed label pad.

Variations of this method will extend the cylinder and then use air to blow the label to the product surface (tamp-blow).

Another popular method is a blow-on system that will use a burst of air to deliver the label from the pad to the product surface without the use of a cylinder.

Recently label printer applicators have been introduced which have the power to store large amounts of data.

These machines can also control and harvest data from other input devices such as barcode scanners and weighing scales.

Now label printer applicators can communicate directly with an array of devices and hosts on the production line without the aid of a computer.