Print & Apply
Supplyline only offer the highest quality ribbons from the market leading manufacturers that include Armor, ITW Thermal Films, Inkanto, Richoh & Sony plus all the genuine branded ribbons from Zebra, Honeywell and Toshiba. This enables us to meet any ribbon requirement with the perfect grade or ribbon type ensuring not only perfect print every time but also the correct resistance or protection to last the life of the product or application.
Buy Printer & Coding Ribbons from Supplyline, one of the largest resellers of Printer & Coding Ribbons in the Industry, we sell at the most competitive price and carry by far the largest stock range in the UK.
Challenge us to save you money, improve your print quality and increase the life of your printer or printhead, we wont be beaten on price.
RIBBON TYPES & APPLICATIONS FOR PRINT & APPLY
We supply ribbons for Print & Apply machines from: Markem Imaje, Domino, Videojet, CimPak. ICE, CAB, Allen Coding, Herma, Sato, Zebra, ALS, Altech, Webber Marking & Logopak.
Supplyline offer a full range of printheads, spare parts and servicing for the most popular models of Print & Apply machines and most Date Coding & Coding Printers, stop wasting your money on supposed “genuine branded” products and see how much we can save you.
Thermal Transfer printers for printing/placement are integrated into manufacturing or packaging lines.
Print & apply printer models
CAB hermes +2, CAB Hermes +4, CAB hermes +6, CAB PX4, CAB PX6, Markem Imaje 2200 Pallet, Markem Imaje 2200 flex SE, Markem Imaje CimPak. ICE, Allen Coding, Herma, Sato, Zebra, ALS, Altech, Webber Marking & Logopak.
Advantages of print & apply modules:
- Creation and placement of labels directly on the product or its packaging
- Guarantees and simplifies product tracking throughout the supply chain
Sectors in which these printers are used:
- Food production lines
- Pharmaceutical production lines
- Chemical industries
- On most production lines
Thermal Transfer printer technology where the print head is positioned obliquely, the contact between the film and the printed substrate is quick. Films for corner edge printers therefore require specific cooling properties. Similar to Corner Edge technology.
Thermal Transfer printer technology where the print head is positioned obliquely, the contact between the film and the printed substrate is quick. Films for corner edge printers therefore require specific cooling properties. Similar to Near Edge technology.
We supply 100’s of the largest manufacturing & distribution companies across all sectors in the UK and we can offer our clients a full range of contract options that include large stock holding facilities, pre scheduled call off & contract orders, full manufacturer support or we can supply off the shelf on demand from our own stock to one or multiple sites if we know your usage we will just stock in advance for you.
Our range covers all Product Coding, Case Coding, Pallet Coding and Print & Apply machines. As well as stand alone industrial label printers.
We can supply a standard stocked range in Black, White and Red with many more colours available made to order, allowing you to offer a unique look for your product which can help it to stand out more on the shelf or suit you own company colours.
All of our near-edge or coding ribbons are made to the highest quality using the most advanced films you can get. All supplied with double plastic core. All supplied with a complimentary printhead cleaning wipe to help maintain the life of your printhead.
Free full length sample ribbons available on request, contact our sales team or fill out our ribbon enquiry form and we can advise which products will suit your machine and discuss your options.
The range of sizes and types Supplyline can offer either off the shelf or made to order is un-rivalled by anyone in the UK. All supplied with double plastic core and we offer a life time guarantee on all Armor ribbons.
Our unique knowledge of these printers and coders not only allow us to offer you the best advise for your print quality and management, but we can also offer the full service selling the parts, printheads and offering on-site maintenance via our network of engineers, allowing us to not only save you money on your ribbons but also save you money on the running of your machines.
The Armor Flat Head Ribbon Range
ARMOR AWR®8 Enhanced Wax is the biggest selling Wax that Supplyline sell from the ARMOR wax range. It doesn’t make any compromise to quality and printing performance and therefore matches all criteria expected by a traditional wax application.
Description
- Receptor multi-compatibility
- Excellent blackness
- Competitivity
This product’s +
- An ink suitable for standard labelling applications.
- Compatible with most blank and pre-printed labels.
- The low energy required to transfer the ink helps to protect the print head.
ARMOR AWX®FH Premium Wax is a resin enhanced wax ribbon. Intrinsically, it is the highest performance wax ribbon of the inkanto range, enabling it to answer the requirements of all wax applications, including the most demanding ones, with very good resistance.
Description
- Very high smudge resistance
- Very good printing quality
- Excellent receptor multi-compatibility and sensitivity
This product’s +
- The perfect combination of print quality and durability.
- Easy to use, prints over a wide range of settings.
- Print fineness ideal for logos, small characters and barcodes.
ARMOR APR®6 Wax/Resin is Supplyline’s biggest selling wax/resin ribbon of the inkanto range: very versatile, it has been conceived to print all kinds of self-adhesive labels at the lowest heat settings. It also provides a higher level of mechanical resistance compared to the wax ribbons.
Description
- Very good printing quality
- High speed printing capability
- Excellent receptor multi-compatibility and sensitivity
This product’s +
- Good print quality with all types of label material.
- A versatile, multi-use ribbon.
- Offers high print quality for small characters and barcodes.
ARMOR APX®FH+ PREMIUM WAX/RESIN is a high-end wax/resin ribbon providing a printing quality and mechanical resistances exceeding the market standards. It ensures an excellent quality of transfer at low energy on all smooth materials, coated papers as well as synthetics.
Description
- Very high resistance to smudge and scratch
- Excellent sensitivity and receptor multi-compatibility
- Very good printing quality at high speed
This product’s +
- Meets the durability criteria for exterior usages.
- Quality printing on pre-printed media.
- Accurately prints barcodes, symbols and logos.
Coders are used for Direct Thermal Transfer printing onto flexible packaging, at high speeds (sometimes higher than 1 m/second) and requiring large volumes.
Coders models:
Videojet, Markem Imaje, Domino, Clearmark ICE
Advantages of coders:
- Printing on flexible and complex packaging
- Low, medium or high outputs
- Variable formats: small texts or large code with variable information
Sectors in which these printers are used:
- Agribusiness
- Mass distribution
The Armor Near Edge Ribbon Range:
ARMOR APR®400 WAX/RESIN is the newest ARMOR wax/resin ribbon for Near Edge and Corner Edge printers. It is dedicated to print rough label materials like uncoated papers or tags, a challenge for TT ribbons.
APR®400 achieves a very good printing quality on these materials thanks to its superior coverage capacity. Its high sensitivity enables the highest printing speeds in labeling applications.
Description
- Ideal for rough materials
- Very good printing quality
- High resistance to smudge
This product’s +
- A near-edge ribbon offering a high print quality on all paper-based labels
- The ink guarantees a good level of blackness even on rough paper materials
- Compatible with all labelling near-edge printers
ARMOR APR®600 WAX/RESIN is the worldwide reference of premium ribbons for Corner Edge and Near Edge printers. It is the standard ribbon in inkanto’s wax/resin range. Its performance (speed, sensitivity, versatility, blackness) provides a perfectly adapted answer a large majority of applications.
Description
- Excellent sensitivity and receptor multi-compatibility
- Very good printing quality at high speed and sharpness of 90° barcodes
- Very high resistance to smudge
This product’s +
- Equally able to print on both labels and flexible packaging.
- A benchmark product for print speed.
- Compatible with the high throughputs of many industries.
ARMOR APX®650 WAX/RESIN is a high performance wax/resin ribbon for Corner Edge and Near Edge printers, providing a printing quality and mechanical resistance exceeding the market standards. These high performances contribute to secure your applications.
Description
- Very high resistance to smudge and scratch
- Excellent sensitivity and receptor multi-compatibility
- Very good printing quality at high speed
This product’s +
- Equally able to print on both labels and flexible packaging.
- An ink offering good durability for demanding applications.
- Especially suitable for printing fine characters.
ARMOR AXR®600 FULL/RESIN is the standard resin ribbon of the inkanto range for Corner Edge and Near Edge printers. It has become a reference for its sharpness. It is also unequalled as regards to its high level of mechanical resistance and its ability to print at high speed.
Description
- Excellent resistance to smudge and scratch
- Excellent printing quality, sensitivity and receptor multi-compatibility
- Good resistance to high temperature
This product’s +
- Equally able to print on both labels and flexible packaging.
- Concentrated performance in terms of writing quality and print durability.
- Compatible with the high throughputs of many industries.
ARMOR AXR®800 FULL is a high performance resin ribbon for Corner Edge and Near Edge printers, designed for the most demanding applications regarding resistance to mechanical aggressions and/or temperature and/or solvents. It is fully compatible with the label materials dedicated to the same high performance applications.
Description
- Excellent resistance to smudge and scratch
- Excellent resistance to solvents and to high temperature
- Excellent printing quality
This product’s +
- In addition to its abrasion resistance, the AXR 800 offers durability in the presence of solvents for labels and flexible packaging.
- Maximum resistance for applications that cannot accept any print degradation.
- Ideal for information that must persist throughout the product life cycle.
ARMOR AXR®900 FULL/RESIN is a resin ribbon for Corner Edge and Near Edge printers designed for the textile label printing market. It can also represent a relevant solution for niche resin applications (involving for example sterilization or resistance to some solvents) which are not satisfied by other resin ribbons
Description
- Excellent printing quality on textile materials
- Excellent resistance to washes and dry cleaning
- Very good resistance to ironing
This product’s +
- A product developed for textile printing.
- Offers resistance to all types of textile washing methods.
- Also offers resistance against certain everyday solvents.
Near Edge Products From ITW
Flexible, high speed wax/resin and resin ribbons designed specifically for near edge or corner edge technology printers
PrintheadSaver® Techno-Edge™ ribbons are developed specifically for use on near edge or corner edge technology printers. Featuring quick release, these PrintheadSaver® ribbons are designed to get the maximum efficiency out of near edge printheads. Techno-Edge™ ribbons combine our proprietary anti-static coating and high sensitivity inks that enable you to maintain and sustain the life of your printheads, use less energy and print at faster speeds. Techno-Edge™ thermal transfer ribbons produce sharp, crisp print and clean edge definition for all your labeling and bar coding needs.
ITW B112 Flexible Techno-Edge™ wax/resin ribbon is specifically designed to work with near edge technology printers in high volume labelling applications. B112 can be used on a wide range of paper and film media, and offers superb scratch resistance, is UV resistant and produces sharp, clean print density and edge definition while using low print energy.
Ideal applications for B112 Flexible Techno-Edge™ include:
Flexible packaging | Fresh fruit and produce | General labeling |
Healthcare | Horticulture/nursery | Industrial |
Lumber | Metals | Pharmaceutical |
Retail | Transportation | Warehouse and logistics |
ITW P110 High Speed Techno-Edge™ wax/resin is a thermal transfer ribbon that is designed especially for the flexible packaging printing market where optimum printing performance at high speeds is required. Developed for near edge technology printers, P110 produces excellent print density and definition on a wide range of substrates, producing high resolution bar codes, texts and graphics. P110 prints at 20-31 inches/second (500-800mm/second), and has a high resistance to scratching, smearing, abrasion and heat for superior scan rates in high volume applications. P110 high speed wax/resin is also available in white providing a quick visual recognition of price codes, date codes, lot codes and other variable imagery that is printed on flexible packaging, and other labeling applications that require a color differentiator.
Ideal applications for P110 and P110W High Speed Techno-Edge™ include::
Flexible packaging | Fresh fruit and produce | Healthcare |
Pharmaceutical | Retail |
ITW P310 durable resin is formulated for online coders and somenear edge desktop applications where excellent performance in harsh labeling environments, and high volume labelingapplications is required. P310 is a high speed, flexible resin made for flexible packaging applications that requireincreased smudge and scratch resistance. This Techno-EdgeTM resin ribbon offers outstanding performance characteristicson synthetic paper film (PET, PVC).
Ideal applications for P310 Durable Resin Techno-EdgeTM include:
Flexible packaging | Fresh fruit and produce | Healthcare |
Pharmaceutical | Retail |
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Our ribbons can meet the following certifications : | ||
Food Contact Europe | RoHS | Halogens |
Heavy Metals | Marine shipping (BS5609) | California Proposition 65 |
REACH/SVHC | Food Contact USA | Print durability (UL) |
Drug Master File |
LABEL TYPES & MATERIALS WE USE | ||
3M Polyester | Ink Jet Receptacle | Recyclable Labels |
A4 Laser Labels | Jet Gloss 90 | Sheet Labels |
Anodised Aluminium | Laser Labels | Sprocket Fed |
Blockout/Blackout | Loop Tags | Tags |
Clear laminates | Metallised Silver/Polyester | Tamper Evident |
Clear PE | Oven Proof | Tactile |
Clear PP | Paper Direct Thermal (Eco or Topcoat) | Tickets |
Domed | Paper Thermal Transfer (Matt Vellum or Gloss) | Vinyl |
Dot Matrix Labels | Polyester (PET) | Void |
Fabric & Woven Labels | Polyethylene (PE) | Ultra Destruct |
Fan Fold Labels | Polypropylene (PP) | Window Stickers |
Fan Fold Tags & Tickets | PVC | |
Garden Centre Tags | Peel & Reveal |
ADHESIVES WE USE | ||
Acrylic based | High Tack | Ultra High Tack |
Blockout / Blackout | Peelable | Ultra Low Tack |
Chilled | Permanent | Void |
Fastyre | Rubber Based | Water Resistant |
Freezer | Tamper Evident |
LABEL RESISTANCE SUPPLYLINE CAN OFFER | ||
Chemicals | Handling | Scuff Proof |
Extreme High Temperature | Moisture | Sea & Salt Water (BS5609 Standard) |
Extreme Low | Outdoor Exposure | Solvents |
Grease | Scratch Proof | UV Exposure |
PRINTER & CODING RIBBONS SUPPLYLINE CAN OFFER | |
Coding Ribbons Colours | Full/Resin Ribbons |
Coding Ribbons Full/Resin | Hot Foil Ribbons |
Coding Ribbons Wax/Resin | Near Edge Wax/Resins Ribbons |
Cold Stamping Ribbons | Near Edge Full/Resins Ribbons |
Colour Ribbons (Primary & Metallic) | Premium Wax Ribbons |
Chemical Ribbons (chemical resistant) | Standard Wax Ribbons |
Enhanced Wax Ribbons | Washable Ribbons (Textile / Clothing Printing |