Tobacco

From pack to pouch to carton and case, Domino is the strategic coding supplier to the world’s largest tobacco producers and OEMs

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Leading global provider to the Tobacco industry

Domino offers total solutions for Pack to Case coding, with easy-to-use, highly reliable coders and bespoke application parts, to ensure seamless integration and ongoing efficiency. Our focused approach to the specific requirements of the industry has resulted in Domino becoming the strategic coding supplier to the world’s largest Tobacco producers and Original Equipment Manufacturers.

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Specialised Solutions

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Take control with the Domino Cigarette Pack Coding Station

Even the slightest imprecision can affect code quality drastically, resulting in rejections, aggregation failures, and impacting OEE.

Code with precision up to 500 ppm with the ultimate track and trace coding solution.

The Domino CPCS eliminates any risk associated with product handling, delivering crisp and clear codes.

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Twin Labelling Station, designed to beat downtime

TLS can dramatically increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) by up to 5%. Intelligent design, combining twin printers and system controller in a compact footprint for flexible and simple integration.

TLS has been designed to automatically and seamlessly switch from one printer to another without stopping the line when needed. Stoppages for both planned and un-planned consumable changes, maintenance and break-downs are eliminated. It’s powered by two Domino M230i printers, known for fast and flexible print and apply labelling.

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What do you print on?

Printing on Cartons and Bundles

Within the tobacco industry, traceability is now essential at all packaging levels – enabling you to comply with relevant legislation such as the EU TPD and WHO FCTC, protecting the reputation of your product, and combating illicit trade. Domino have worked with the tobacco industry to produce a range of coding solutions that can be integrated throughout your production line. All of our printers are designed to balance flexibility with performance by producing pin-sharp text, graphics and 2D codes such as DotCode or Data Matrix codes on a variety of commonly used packaging materials.

Domino M-Series printers are highly configurable print and apply labelling solutions that can be integrated into your existing production line for bundle and master case applications. The M-Series has a long-standing proven reputation, installed on hundreds of the fastest tobacco production lines globally.

By combining high-performance print heads with a range of unique, industry-recognised, fast-drying inks that are specially designed for different substances, our continuous and thermal inkjet printing solutions offer balanced adaptability for your carton printing applications and production environment.

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Printing on Cigarette Packs

Efficient, high-quality serialisation and coding make sure that your soft or hard packs enable you to comply with relevant legislation such as the EU TPD & WHO FCTC. Unique Product Identification and Track and Trace systems are essential to protecting the reputation of your product, and combating illicit trade .

Domino’s D-Series offers high-quality complex serial codes at the very fastest production rates. The laser i-Tech scan head and optimised cooling, ensures high performance in any production environment. All of our laser printers are capable of producing consistent, accurate text, graphics and 2D codes such as DotCode or Data Matrix on flexible packaging materials.

Also ideal for pack coding our continuous or thermal Inkjet printers offer a range of industry leading inks for light fastness and contrast to ensure fewer rejects. The Gx-Series thermal inkjet OEM Board enables seamless integration, and is ideally suited for high-speed serialisation or printing intricate codes. High-performance print heads ensures you maximise each ink cartridge – creating consistent, durable codes while minimising costs.

Down the line with our M-Series print and apply labelling technology, will label bundles, cases and pallets at any line speed and on multiple sides.

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Printing on Cigars and Cigarillos

Coding, labelling and serialisation are essential at all levels of tobacco product packaging. This can however prove something of a challenge when working with multiple materials and fast production lines to produce high value packaging of various designs and materials – such as cigar tubes, tins, packs or boxes. Domino can help you to comply with relevant legislation such as the EU TPD & WHO FCTC, protecting the reputation of your product, and combating illicit trade Domino printers have helped many tobacco manufacturers meet these challenges. The highly accurate i-Tech scan head on our D-Series C02 and fibre lasers can produce high-quality, consistent text, graphics and 2D codes such as DotCode or DataMatrix, on a variety of materials.

They offer high performance printing at industry production rates – with limited need for planned maintenance and optimised cooling ensures high performance in any production environment. Flexible enough to integrate with your existing production processes, our laser printers are designed to be as compact and adjustable as possible – so they can be fitted into lines with limited space.

Combining a Domino laser with our M-Series print and apply labelling technology, with a highly flexible applicator the M230i products offer outstanding coding at the end of the line. When combined with our printing solutions, Domino’s M-series labelling units offer a complete coding solution that covers you from product to pallet.

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Printing on Pouches

Like all tobacco packaging, pouches must be marked with accurate and durable codes, enabling you to comply with relevant legislation such as the EU TPD and WHO FCTC, protecting the reputation of your product, and combating illicit trade. Domino printers can help you to achieve this high-quality coding on flexible packaging materials – without increasing production time or cost. Our aim is to produce product coding solutions that are as flexible as the materials they mark. The compact footprint of our lasers printers, coupled with their adjustable i-Tech scan head, allows for integration into a range of production environments. Domino can offer both CO2 and fibre lasers, thereby maximising the flexibility available according to the variation in pouch materials. Both these laser solutions are proven and installed on multiple production lines globally.

Our range of thermal transfer and inkjet printers are equally adaptable – their scalable, modular design allowing them to grow with your production line. The V-Series range of thermal transfer overprinters (TTO) can print variable data, barcodes and images at 300dpi quality onto flexible packaging films. It’s the perfect solution for adding traceability data to packaging, giving consumers reassurance that the product is authentic.

All of our printers are capable of producing consistent, accurate text, graphics and 2D codes such as DotCode or Data Matrix on flexible packaging materials. Our inkjet printers combine high-performance print heads with a range of fast-drying inks – each specially designed to match a variety of flexible packaging materials.

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Printing on Tins

Marking your products with accurate, serialised codes can be challenge – particularly when dealing with a range of materials and fast production speeds. Domino’s flexible, coding solutions have helped many tobacco manufacturers to comply with relevant legislation such as the EU TPD & WHO FCTC, protecting the reputation of your product, and combating illicit trade

Our highly accurate CO2 & fibre laser printers can be adjusted to mark metals or hard plastics with complex text, graphics and 2D codes such as DotCode & DataMatrix – making them ideal for coding tins. They are energy efficient and don’t require consumables, – meaning you don’t have to compromise on running costs

Our continuous inkjet printing solutions also balance quality with value – combining high-performance print heads with a range of unique, fast drying inks that are specially designed to suit even the hardest to mark materials.

Domino’s M-Series print and apply labelling technology enable printing of 2D codes, 1D bar codes, complex text and graphics such as logos. Coupled with the ability to affix a label in challenging production environments at the fastest production line speeds.

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Ideal solutions for the tobacco sector

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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Gx-Series

Designed for use on challenging substrates, our intelligent, high-resolution modular Gx-Series thermal inkjet printers are simple to install, maintain, and use on your production line.

M230i S&SP Print & Apply

M-Series

Easily integrated into your production line, our range of Print and Apply labelling systems are reliable, flexible, robust and can be configured for a wide range of applications.

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