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Better Packaging Options Will Improve All Aspects of Shipping

imprint — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:36:35 +0000

Picture this.

You take pride in the products you sell. It’s your name on the line. The manufacturing, purchasing, storage, order intake, packing, shipping, and customer service may all be on you. It’s critical that every order is filled, and every customer receives exactly what they’re looking for.

If that customer opens the package, and the product is cracked, damaged, or broken, it’s your company’s name that is on the line.

The packaging decisions that you make may feel secondary to the decisions that go into the product itself. But you need a system that you can rely on to ensure that your business is protected in every transaction.

That’s where the Fromm Airpad packaging machines can protect your business as you ship product to retailers or customers.

Take Comfort in Your Shipping Process

No business wants to deal with products that are broken or damaged before they reach their end destination. It can cause strain on your customer service department while jeopardizing your brand and reputation.

The Fromm Airpad packing machines can help.

Fromm AP 100 Air Pillow Model

The great news about the Fromm AP 100 Air Pillow model is that it can protect your business from situations like the one mentioned above, and it is also easy to use in a decentralized format. This model is ideal when you need the void fill in a box. It comes free from Imprint Enterprises. The only customer expense is the plastics that run through the machine.

It comes in a standard, compact size, making it a versatile option no matter the size of your packaging operation. It’s user-friendly control options and easy-to-load compartment for plastics make it a solid choice for your shipping needs. It’s also a durable choice that is ideal for rugged workplace environments.

Below are a few more benefits of the Fromm AP 100 Air Pillow model:

- Accepts a wide selection of pillow patterns, film types and film thicknesses, so that you can use the packaging materials that make the most sense for your business.
- A silent hopper operation makes for a smoother, friendlier packaging experience for your employees.
- An available footswitch makes for easier operation.
- Automatic replenishment means less reloading time.
- The front and side photocells enable automatic use, simplifying the process for employees.
- Efficient and friendly technical support will keep your operation up and running.

The Fromm AP 100 Air Pillow model is a versatile machine, ideal for all different types of packaging environments. It can be installed free standing in an open environment, or standing against a wall.

Fromm AP 150 Bubble on Demand

The Fromm AP 150 Bubble on Demand model is another small packaging machine designed to help you protect the integrity of your business by ensuring that your packages can arrive to their destination safely. It’s ideal for when you need to wrap a fragile item, such as a bottle. This machine comes free from Imprint Enterprises. The only customer expense is the plastic materials needed to run through the machine.

This machine uses a built-in air supply making it capable of handling 59 feet of packaging per minute. A photographic eye built into the infrastructure of the machine makes for an easier start and stop. The AP 150 is a durable solution designed for the most rugged packaging environments.

- A long-lasting and durable belt system means it will need to be replaced less frequently.
- The belt system is also easily replaceable for when it does wear down.
- The packaging system is easy to load, making prep time shorter.
- There is a built in external blower.
- The machine operates on a wide range of available packing films.
- Reduced material handling means you can focus on getting the job done quickly and easily.

No More Excuses: Find Out More About Fromm Packaging Solutions

With the options of Fromm packaging machines, there’s no reason for your company to take packaging risks. Both machines work in a wide variety of environments and are capable of enhanced power. Imprint Enterprises proudly carries both Fromm models, as well as the replacement plastics for both.

By prioritizing the quality of your packaging, you are giving your customer service team a rest, and ensuring that your shipments arrive on time and undamaged.

If you would like to find out more about what it takes to improve your company’s packaging options, contact us today!

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How Can License Plate Numbers (LPN Labels) Help Your Business?

imprint — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:11:26 +0000

The public relies on retail outlets and online shopping to meet increasing demand for consumer goods. Warehouses, fulfillment centers, and distribution centers are the backbone of the supply chain and must rise to meet this increased demand.

With online sellers scrambling to match Amazon’s fast delivery times, and more retailers working to keep customer-favorites in stock, products move faster through the supply chain than ever before.

This means that inventory needs to be tracked with a higher level of precision to maintain efficiency and accuracy, and that’s where License Plate Numbers (LPN labels) come into the picture. LPN labels are an important tool for the task.

Easy access to critical data through the use of LPN labels make them an ideal choice. Their durability also makes them well-suited for all types of warehouse environments.

What LPN Labels Do

LPN labels use scannable barcode sequences to track product through every stage of the supply chain. The labels can be used for large groups of products (think trucking shipments) down to each individual product to better track inventory. They can also be used to organize cartons, bins, and pallets.

An immense amount of data related to operational speed, accuracy of shipments, and the efficiency of your operation can be collected using LPN labels. Warehouses along the supply chain have access to higher-level data using LPNs, to make more informed decisions at every step.

The Industries that Benefit from LPN Use

Easy access to critical data through the use of LPN labels make them an ideal choice. Their durability also makes them well-suited for all types of warehouse environments.

LPN labels can easily access information regarding manufacturing dates, and expiration dates, to better track product freshness. Because of these reasons, they’ve gained a wide use in several industries, including:

Food
Beverages
Logistics
Medical supplies
Manufacturing

How to Know You Need LPNs

If it feels like your organization is struggling to keep up with the pace of product shipments, LPN labels can help you improve efficiency. LPNs can also help with simplify your practices for tracking products, by enhancing visibility.

LPNs save you money by improving efficiency and accuracy. In short, an LPN labeling system improves all logistics, and can be custom-suited to your warehouse, fulfillment center, or distribution center’s needs.

Use LPNs to Group Inventory

While LPNs allow for any type of inventory tracking, a key advantage they provide is in product grouping. Bins, cartons, pallets, or even entire shipments can be grouped together. When you use LPNs to create groups, it’s easier to track your inventory’s path through the warehouse.

LPN labels can be used to track key information with fewer scans. Key data can be easily accessed, including:

Quantity
Lot numbers
Date of manufacture
Expiration dates (good for food, beverage, pharmaceuticals)
Location
Products contained in grouping
Part numbers

Additional Benefits of LPN Usage

LPN labels make receiving, picking, and shipping easier. Order and product details can easily be retrieved. Below are some additional ways to maximize warehouse efficiency through LPN use:

Product grouping can minimize human error and reduce data entry requirements.
License plate numbers can help you identify fast-moving product to make sure it’s path through the warehouse is efficient, and that it remains in stock.
Reduced cost versus in-house labeling.
Bar codes remain clear and readable so that you’ll always have easy access to key information.
Ensure that food, beverage, or medical supplies have not passed their expiration dates.
LPN labels come in various shapes, colors, and sizes to enhance the ability to organize your product.

A Cold Temperature Labeling Solution

The need for cold temperature storage within the supply chain is on the rise, especially with home grocery deliveries. A durable label solution that holds up to these rugged conditions is necessary. LPN labels come in a variety of materials, and a professional label supplier can help you to determine which material will be best suited for your cold storage needs.

When labels are damaged, or become caked in frost, they are unreadable, and the product is no longer easily tracked. Quality LPN labels put an end to this problem. Pressure sensitive films and freezer-grade adhesives can help your labeling system withstand even the toughest storage demands.

Why Pre-Printed LPN Labels are Critical to Your Operation

Warehouses have the option between pre-printed LPN labels or in-house printing. Many businesses try to save money by investing in the necessary equipment and handling label printing and production in-house. This solution can be fraught with risk and hidden costs down the road.

Printer maintenance, label supplies, and equipment wear-and-tear make this a costly option. There is always the risk that an in-house system might print duplicate labels, which can create confusion within the system and result in lost revenues.

Pre-printed LPN labels from an experienced label supplier can help meet your long-term needs, while avoiding some of the issues above. The right label supplier will have the experience to help you create a custom system that meets all of your organizational and environmental demands. This may include branded labels of different color and size, for more efficiency within the system.

LPN label suppliers can also help you with fast reordering so that you don’t have to wait for the supply to be able to maintain your efficient system.

Use LPN Labels to Improve Warehouse Operations

If your warehouse is struggling to keep up with increasing customer demands, there are solutions out there to help you improve overall operations.

The public expects to see the product they need on the shelf or to have it quickly shipped. The supply chain needs to keep up. LPN labels can be used to keep product moving in an efficient manner while maintaining accuracy so that warehouses can more easily keep up with this increasing demand.

LPN labeling allows businesses to decide what information they want to prioritize and track. Individual product and entire shipments can be tracked and monitored with one simple scan. These rugged labels can be placed in all types of temperature applications. They can be used to bring organization to your labeling system.

If your business is ready to create a more efficient labeling system to monitor your product, contact Imprint Enterprises today!

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Why Good Packaging and Labeling Benefits Your Cannabis Business

imprint — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:41:21 +0000

There are all kinds of considerations for emerging Cannabis business owners, especially with shifting ground at the federal level and each state trying to navigate its own terrain. While paying attention to the ongoing conversation is critical, so is doing your own diligence – reading and researching and identifying those practices that are going to keep your business at its best from the beginning.

One of the things to consider is the way you package and label your products.

How you package and label is an important part of remaining compliant, following proper chain of custody, and keeping your products traceable through their lifecycle. There are other additional benefits to carefully considering and selecting the ways in which you package and label your Cannabis. Such things as product protection, business marketing, and cost-effectiveness.

It's not too early to be thinking about your packaging and labelling options and understanding the benefits of doing these well.

SELECTING THE RIGHT PACKAGING FOR YOUR PRODUCT

With Cannabis being added to food, beverage, pharmaceuticals, and beauty products, there is a variety of forms, shapes, weights, and consistencies that your final product may come in. Not every product is going to be best suited for a bag, a bottle, or a vial.

The final form or condition your product takes should influence the type of packaging and material that is best. Consider, too, that you may have one packaging for the product itself and another for shipping. The type of packaging will also denote the labelling options – the dimensions, how much text you can be provided, if there is room for a logo or design, etc.

THE IMPORTANCE OF LABELLING

Your labeling options are even more critical than the packaging itself. Appropriate labelling will be critical in keeping you compliant and therefore out of trouble. With the adequate information provided on your label, your final product will be ready for track-and-trace if/when needed. For those labels that cannot provide all the necessary information because of size limitations – for example, consider the narrow wraparound label that might be placed on a vial – you’ll want to consider how you’ll ensure all required information still gets placed with the product and moves through the chain of custody.

The placement of the label will also be important. Both the way the label is positioned on the product and on the package (for shipping) should be considered. Are there any ways a label may be placed that skew the information provided or make it more difficult for those to read the information? What kind of material is the label made from and what about the quality of the ink? Do either have a more durable material to remain in-tact regardless of the wear-and-tear they’ll experience making its way to the end consumer?

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT PACKAGE AND LABEL

Knowing your packaging materials for your various products will help you in budgeting and being more cost-effective because you won’t be taking a one-size-fits-all approach. When it comes to the product itself, you can select the right package for the right product with cost precision.

When it comes to shipping materials, you can do away with paying for the largest parcel with the highest mailing cost for even your smallest of products. Appropriately packaging your product at the outset – vial, bag, box, tin, etc. – and then also pairing that with the right shipping materials, will have you calculating your costs with more accuracy and less overspend. Additionally, in having selected the right packaging for shipping, you’re also protecting that product in transit. The more durable and secure packaging with a custom fit to the product inside, the safer your product now is for delivery. Lastly, if you have also taken care in ensuring your labeling and packaging is nice to look at – colorful, designed well, branded to your business – than the presentation of your product goes a long way in impressing your end customer. They’ll see your product as something of quality, they’ll remember your business, and may be a repeat spender or tell all their friends (which is what you want).

Start paying attention to how you package and label.

Your business may only be emerging, but you need to consider the importance of packaging and labelling. Even if these concerns aren’t relevant until the end of the product’s lifecycle, you need to be equipped ahead of time. Start looking into your options for solid packaging and labeling solutions. Start with a conversation with us.

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3 Ways an Auto-Bagging System Decreases Costs

imprint — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:14:36 +0000

Shipping costs are rising fast. Since 2009, truck transport costs have risen seven times faster than product prices. And that’s not going to change any time soon. In October, the U.S. Postal Service announced a proposal to increase package shipping costs from 9.3% to 12.3% in 2019. That’s a steep enough increase that Amazon alone could see its revenues decline by as much as 5% as a result.

For companies that are looking for ways to reduce their shipping costs (particularly given increasing customer demands for faster, cheaper shipping), automation will play a critical role. In particular, auto-bagging systems can reduce overall shipping costs in the following three ways.

1. Reduced Labor Costs

With auto-baggers, you can eliminate the need for the extra staff required for antiquated hand-bagging methods.

Since your employees won’t have to manually stuff products into bags and seal them, you can utilize your labor force more productively and efficiently. In the shipping area, this can create opportunities to implement better quality control checks, for example, which can help reduce shipping errors. What’s more, you can improve bagging operations while also reducing the potential for repetitive motion injuries.

2. Increased Output

With an auto-bagger, you can significantly increase the volume of products bagged per shift, as well as the velocity of packages sent to shipping daily. And because you are able to ship more product with less labor, an auto-bagging system can provide a generous return on investment.

3. Reduced Shipping Costs

This is an increasingly important area of improvement, particularly given dimension-based shipper pricing, which continues to get more expensive each quarter. When a company ships a package via FedEx, for example, every order requires information on both box dimension and weight before receiving a price. As truck space increases in value, dimensioning has emerged as one of the biggest drivers of total shipping costs. Shippers have begun to implement a number of technologies to help reduce their package footprint, including the use of automated dimensioning scanners and software that can help optimize package sizes.

Auto-bagging solutions can eliminate this problem completely, which is enormously beneficial for companies trying to hold down shipping costs. Shipping bags are typically loaded into laundry-style carts in the mailroom and are subject to significant discounts because they don’t have to be stacked and they take up less space. This isn’t a solution for every product – extremely fragile items still need specialty packaging, for example. However, for items like mailers, pamphlets, textbooks, sweatshirts, and other goods, bags can be placed into protected carts rather than being stacked in the back of a truck. The loading process is easier (and requires less labor) and the entire process of figuring out dimensions and optimizing packing/loading can be reduced or eliminated.

Learn More About the Benefits of Auto-Baggers

There are other benefits from using auto-baggers as well. They can be easily integrated with inline label printers, counters, scales, and other material handling systems to create a fully automated packing and shipping solution.

Also, they can generally work with a variety of different bag sizes so you can leverage the equipment for multiple shipping lines, and they work with automated loading, which can improve the ergonomics of your shipping operation.

If you’d like to learn more about how auto-bagging systems and other automated packaging solutions can reduce costs in your shipping operations, visit our website.

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Imprint Enterprises Partners with Automated Packaging Systems to Provide Automated Warehouse Solutions

imprint — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:00:46 +0000

Aurora, IL – October 10, 2018 – Imprint Enterprises, a leading Illinois-based provider of barcode, RFID, and labeling solutions, has entered into a new partnership with Automated Packaging Systems to provide high-quality automated warehouse solutions. Automated Packaging Systems is a premier designer and manufacturer of flexible packaging systems and the original inventor of Autobag bagging machines and pre-opened bags.

Now, as an Automated Packaging Systems partner, Imprint can deliver advanced Autobag warehouse solutions. These reliable, flexible bagging, filling, and sealing machines are equipped with cutting-edge technology to help optimize packaging throughput.

Available solutions include:

Autobag PaceSetter PS 125 – This tabletop automatic bagger is ideal for low- to mid-volume production environments. This hand-load machine is designed to efficiently bag and seal products, and is complete with a user-friendly display for simple operation.

Autobag 550 Bagging System – This automatic filling and sealing machine can handle up to 45 bags per minute, and is equipped with an advanced thermal transfer imprinter positioned directly over the next bag to be loaded, which enables next-bag-out printing.

Autobag 500 Bagging System – This advanced filling and sealing machine is capable of cycling at rates over 100 bags per minute. The system is flexible enough to meet the needs of any loading area, with the added advantage of an inherently safe design.

“We are delighted by the opportunity to offer these technologically-advanced automated bagging solutions to our customers.” said Bob Conti, President at Imprint Enterprises. “The manufacturing industry is rapidly embracing automated solutions, so we aim to deliver the highest-quality products, which is possible through our partnership with Automated Packaging Systems.”

For more information on the PS 125 and the Autobag 550 and 500, or to schedule a demo or request a quote, contact Imprint Enterprises at (855) 745-4464 or visit https://www.imprint-e.com/.

About Imprint Enterprises
Imprint Enterprises has been in business since 1975 and is focused on providing customers the highest quality products with the most comprehensive service. Whether you’re looking to purchase new barcode equipment and supplies, or need best-in-class installation and service for your barcode products, we have a solution for you. We specialize in nationwide barcode printer service, site surveys and end-to-end barcode solutions.

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