Said to be the industry's only multihead thermal-transfer printer designed to match the high throughput of a variety of multilane packaging machines, the ThermalPak™ Model TP-4000 is introduced. It is available standard with three to six printheads, with each head printing fixed and/or variable data on numerous flexible packaging materials, the co. notes. With a print area up to 4.1737.87 in. per head and minimum printhead center distance of 3.35 in., the machine prints text and graphics in 300 dpi both horizontally and vertically with a 5.5-in. throughput rate per head, the co. says.

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