Beverage

Brands from the world's biggest drinks producers to the artisan brewers producing craft beers and ales use Domino's beverage marking technology.

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Domino Provides Solutions for Industry Leaders

Solutions such as laser coders, inkjet printers and case, keg and pallet labellers are commonly used to identify their products and improve traceability. Our high-performance beverage labelling and marking solutions boost productivity and drive operational efficiency.

Why does Pepsi use Domino's F720i Fiber Laser?

According to Pepsi Bottling Ventures’ Vice President of Engineering Sabri Kundakcioglu: "Quality, productivity and sustainability. These are the three reasons that we converted our can coding to a fiber laser. Line efficiency is improved, cost of production has been reduced and customer complaints about poor printing quality have been reduced."

 

Specialised Solutions

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Change the way you are coding your cans with the Beverage Can Coding System

Now you have the opportunity to have perfect traceability codes on every can with almost zero maintenance and no fluids required.

Domino understands your needs and has designed a turnkey solution specifically for your beverage production environment.

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What do you print on?

Drink Cartons

Domino knows the meaning of value in the beverage industry. Our carton printers add value and improve traceability. And we’ve optimised the total cost of ownership with our innovative service-free technology. The Ax550i’s QuickStep user interface enables easy use and error-free operation for multiple size printing onto cartons on busy beverage lines. Our i-Pulse printhead and inks provide precision ink drop generation and eliminate the need for printhead cleaning. And we have new inks for printing on tough substrates, and a keen understanding of the requirements of aseptic processing techniques.

High-resolution continuous inkjet print messages and multiple line codes mean best before dates, traceability and manufacture dates can be applied to your cartons at speed – which maximises data print volume for rapid throughput.

Ensuring maximum protection against sugar syrup contamination, Domino’s Ax550i continuous inkjet printer provides high-quality carton coding for best before dates, traceability data, and date of manufacture on the front, back ,or base of laminate cartons. Fast print speeds for high-speed carton lines save time, energy, and money.

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Printing on Cans and Can Labelling

From start-up craft breweries and artisan juice makers to multinational brands, our continuous inkjet printers are used by drinks producers across the world.

The Ax-Series’ unique i-Tech Module uses an inkjet management system, which minimises maintenance downtime and maximises canning output. We know how important clear coding is in the beverage industry, so our technology aims to maximise its impact on the success of your drinks business.

The Ax550i is IP65 rated, with IP66 sealed electronics, and a 316 marine grade stainless steel enclosure. These features combine to ward off the environmental challenges facing canning lines, allowing for easy washdown and ensuring prime protection against sugar syrup contamination.

Looking for a contact-free option? Adding traceable 20-plus character codes to 100,000 aluminium cans in an hour has become a reality thanks to an update to Domino’s F-Series fiber laser range.

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Printing on glass bottles and glass marking

Tough, flexible and robust, our Ax550i and Ax350i Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) printers are a popular coding solution for the unique demands of the beverage industry. Superior, high quality coding can be achieved through the i-Pulse printheads and inks while the i-Tech Module inkjet management system reduces the need for planned maintenance.

Together, this adds up to a machine relied upon the world over to deliver superb resolution at high speeds, with the aim of ensuring your production line runs with optimum performance. Encased with tough, stackable cabinets made from 316 marine grade stainless steel, Domino's top of the range CIJ, high-performing printer is dust tight and is designed to withstand heavy duty cleaning.

Our unique QuickStep user interface allows for simple operation, with the SureStart technology permitting optimal reliability for short runs or frequent changeovers. In addition, Domino's D620i laser printer is ideal for coding directly on glass, such as the high end spirits sector. All in all, Domino's Continuous inkjet printers and CO2 lasers are ideally suited to glass marking in the beverage industry – especially where rapid print speeds and reliability can save you time, energy and money.

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Printing on Plastic (PET) Bottles

Printing on PET bottles provides a range of manufacturing challenges if the solution is unspecified. Depending on the application and specifics of the manufacturing facility in question, Domino can draw on its knowledge and experience built over years designing and installing printing equipment at global beverage sites. For printing on PET bottles, Domino’s laser marking solutions are frequently chosen. D-Series laser scribe high-quality (frosted) codes onto a range of PET products and PET bottles.

Meeting the need for the lowest total cost of ownership, specialised Domino coders supply best before dates and date of manufacture to the neck, shoulder, foot, or behind the main label of a wide range of PET products. Should a continuous inkjet printer be preferred, then Domino’s Ax-Series range of printers

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Domino offers coding and marking options for plastic bottle caps including continuous inkjet.

Printing on Caps and Closures

Domino Ax-Series printers provide a solution for coding caps and closures. Whether you are printing onto plastic caps, or metal caps and tabs, our low-maintenance i-Pulse printheads and specialist inks provide precision ink drop generation on tough substrates in multiple print sizes.

Our innovative range of continuous inkjet printers work with your network operations, providing centralised code templates for error-free coding. With easy integration into your existing business systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), Domino’s Ax-Series solves almost every cap and closure query.

Printing and coding onto bottle labels

When it comes to bottle label Printing, Domino knows that efficiency is everything in the beverage industry. That's why our D-Series laser technology is designed to provide superior code quality even at bottle label line speeds of over 70k labels per hour. Whether printing onto roll fed, paper, stretch sleeve or shrink sleeve labels, Domino's D-Series - which has been developed for use at some of the highest production line speeds - apply optimal coding of best before dates, traceability and date of manufacture to labels on the neck, front or back of bottles.

With its new, smaller i-Tech scanhead, the D-Series is fully adjustable, allowing lasers to be installed in some of the most restricted spaces. The new IP65 version design adds greater protection for harsher beverage environment installations while flexible connectivity and a familiar interface make it possible to control a D-Series printer remotely.

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Ideal solutions for the beverage sector

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Ax-Series

Speed, accuracy, and the ability to perform in tough and varied environments give the latest Domino Ax-Series continuous inkjet printers unique technological advantages.

Domino D320i D-Series CO2 Industrial Laser Marker

D-Series

Small yet powerful and versatile, Domino Printing’s D-Series i-Tech range of CO2 laser marking machines deliver flexible, high speed, high-quality coding across a wide variety of materials, with the ability to produce multiple lines of text.

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F-Series

For permanent, precise laser marking of crisp, clear codes onto a wide range of materials, one of Domino Printing’s potential solutions is the F-⁠⁠Series fiber laser system

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