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Guide to Choosing Ink for Food Packaging

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Guide to Choosing Ink for Food Packaging

Direct part marking food packaging often requires the marking components to have specific properties. Ink for food packaging needs to meet a few key criteria. To understand what to look for in food packaging marking solutions, we should consider why...

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Variations in Character Style for Hand Stamps, Type and Dies

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Variations in Character Style for Hand Stamps, Type and Dies

Choosing the appropriate solution that works best for your specific marking application can be challenging, but once you've identified the most...

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What is Hot Stamping?

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What is Hot Stamping?

If you're looking to personalize your product by adding your name, monogram, or company logo, hot stamping is a tried and true direct part marking...

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How to Use a  Spring-Loaded Center Punch

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How to Use a Spring-Loaded Center Punch

A common handheld marking tool is an automatic spring-loaded center punch. This tool produces a dimple, characters, or small symbols in a workpiece...

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Portable Inkjet Printer Gun for Large Character Printing and Coding

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Portable Inkjet Printer Gun for Large Character Printing and Coding

Portable and lightweight, hand-held inkjet printer guns allow users to directly mark substrates in the field with a portable, easy-to-use, hand-held...

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Knurled Hand Stamps

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Knurled Hand Stamps

We recently received a request to manufacture a custom-made steel stamp with a knurled finish. While we have produced similar stamps in the past (for...

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Serrated Character Hand Stamps For Cow Hides

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Serrated Character Hand Stamps For Cow Hides

In the world of animal husbandry and hide processing, precision and permanence are critical. Serrated character hand stamps stand out among the tools...

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Using a Branding Iron: The 5 Things You Need to Know

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Using a Branding Iron: The 5 Things You Need to Know

Branding irons, those iconic emblems of craftsmanship, hold a unique role in the world of marking materials. Picture a craftsman meticulously etching...

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Permanent Marking on Metal

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Permanent Marking on Metal

Permanent marking on metal, whether stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, brass, or copper, presents a couple of unique challenges but can be...

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