Guides

Practical buying guides for batch coding — what to print, what to print it with, and what it costs to run. Written for manufacturers and packers, not marketing copy.

Most of these questions come up in the same order. What does the law want on an Indian pack, and in what format. Whether a handheld inkjet printer or a fixed in-line coder suits the way you actually pack. What a machine costs to buy, and then the number that matters more — what it costs per thousand prints once you count cartridges. Which ink bonds to your surface, because water-based ink on a plastic pouch prints beautifully and wipes off with a thumb.

Nothing here is gated and none of it is a specification sheet in disguise. Where a figure depends on your own print and your own pack we say so rather than publish a headline number that would mislead more often than it helps.