Written by S. Thompson | Posted in Shopping and Products |

When you buy a product in a box, jar or bottle or any such package, you get all the information of the product from the label applied on the packaging. This information contains details like name of the product and manufacturer, price, bar code, date of manufacturing and expiration, instructions, warnings and many other details. A labeling machine is used to apply these labels on the product packaging.

These machines have functions which include dispensing, labeling and printing. There is variety of Machines used for labeling in the market depending upon their industrial requirements. Different kinds of machines are used for different products ranging from, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, electrical, agricultural, food products, apparels, electronics, etc.

There are two types of labeling machines available in the market: automatic labeling machines and semi automatic labeling machines. For heavy industrial requirements, automatic machines are used for applying labels of product packaging, where a big unit of automatic labeling machine is installed in the manufacturing plant. Machine locates and identifies the place on the product package where label has to be applied. It is also used for online operations.

The semi automatic labeling machine is used in manual operations for applying labels to product packages. The position for labeling is manually identified and then passes it on to the machine for sticking and packaging. Other machines like a sticker labeling machine, label printing machine, label applicator, labeler carton code printing and labeling, etc. come under these two types of labeling machines. One has to choose these machines according to his product and industry requirements. The key factors like dimensions of the products, size of labels, type of labels and speed or output required for labeling play major role in selecting a labeling machine.

The trend and technologies used in the labeling machine keeps changing with the time, but it is always in demand and benefits both the manufacturer as well as the consumers.

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