How to Choose a Coding Machine Manufacturer

Purchasing a coding machine, like buying other automated marking equipment, requires thorough preliminary evaluation of the company, equipment, and quality before final procurement. As demand for coding machines continues to grow, how can new customers quickly select and purchase a coding machine or laser coding machine that suits their product materials, factory environment, and effectively improves production efficiency, given the wide price range?

Purchasing a coding machine, like buying other automated marking equipment, requires thorough preliminary evaluation of the company, equipment, and quality before final procurement.

As demand for coding machine equipment continues to grow, how can new customers quickly select and purchase a coding machine or laser coding machine that suits their product materials, factory environment, and effectively improves production efficiency, given the wide price range?Understand your product's printing requirements and prepare for them: 1. Information content to be printed: icons, numbers, Chinese characters, or letters; 2. Size and number of lines of the information string; 3. Surface and material of the items to be printed; 4. Planned printing method: inline printing, offline printing; 5. Printing volume (or planned working hours): the maximum number of prints per hour or per day; 6. Investment amount, budget for purchasing the coding machine, so we can preliminarily filter coding machines by price range; B. Consultation and research on coding machines: 1. Brand: mainly understanding of distributors and manufacturers of imported coding machine brands. Of course, for those with lower price requirements, we can choose our Hesen domestic coding machine. 2. Speed: imported coding machines generally run at 300 m/min, while domestic ones run at about 200 m/min. 3. Type: selection based on type, such as large character, small character, high resolution, laser, thermal transfer, thermal bubble, etc. 4. Service: after-sales service is very important. Our Hesen Automation provides 24/7 after-sales service hotline. 5. Consumables: the cost of consumables is also very important, allowing us to maintain low operating costs over long periods of use. 6. Price: comparative reference based on different models and varieties. C. Common knowledge needed when purchasing a coding machine: 1. Types of coding machines: CIJ (commonly known as small character printer); DOD (commonly known as large character printer); in addition, high-resolution coding machines and laser coding machines, depending on our product marking needs. 2. Basic functions of a coding machine: printing time down to seconds, counting, forward and reverse printing of Chinese characters, simple graphics, numbers, letters, etc. 3. Printing effect: composed of dot matrix, not as good as printing, only better than stamping or embossing; printed characters should be stable and consistent: 7x7 — single row numbers or letters; 16x16 — single row Chinese characters, double row numbers or letters, simple icons; 24x8 — single or simple double row Chinese characters, triple row numbers or letters, simple icons; 32x32 — double row Chinese characters, four row numbers or letters, icons; 64 or 128 dot matrix — multiple rows of Chinese characters, numbers, letters, and icons. 4. Printing speed: the smaller the dot matrix for CIJ and laser machines, the faster the printing speed — 7x7 dot matrix is the fastest, 32x32 is the slowest; DOD and high-resolution coding machines are not limited by dot matrix. 5. Consumables: ketone-based (also known as oily, organic ketone solvents), alcohol-based (alcohol solvents), water-based (aqueous solvents). Note: CIJ and DOD usually use ketone-based consumables; high-resolution coding machines generally use alcohol-based or water-based; laser coding machines require no consumables. 6. Printing characteristics of coding machines: moving to form characters — the print head must move relative to the object to achieve printing. Therefore, coding machines are suitable for inline printing on production lines. For items without a production line, auxiliary conveyors or print head moving devices are needed to achieve printing. D. Precautions: 1. Market misconceptions: large LCD screens, color LCD screens, touch screens, and large memory are just marketing concepts and are used to record the operating status of the coding machine. Do not be misled into procurement decisions. Generally, the frequency of editing operations on the production line is very low, so these are not the key points for purchasing a coding machine; recording operating status is only for maintenance and monitoring by the coding machine company. 2. Stability of the coding machine operation is key — investigate failure rates. 3. Timeliness of service: there is no coding machine that never fails; only prompt service from the supplier to resolve issues. 4. Consumable cost: whether generic consumables can be used determines your operating costs.