The PrinTrayce System
This revolutionary fruit labeling system sits at the forefront of fruit production technology, allowing you to bring your facility into the 21st century with a 100% ROI in 3 years or less. Have a look around to learn more.
By reducing raw materials, you make more room and now you get more labels into the supply roll. The PRINTRAYCE System’s proprietary hi-capacity roll-winding technology dramatically reduces raw material waste and wasted labor.
For every 1 million boxes of fruit you label, your people must now manually change 2,900 rolls of labels! For the equivalent labels but using PRINTRAYCE your people change only 290 supply rolls. That’s 10x more productivity and 10x less wasted time changing rolls and labels. And because every label is printed on demand, there are no “short rolls” to get thrown away and no “extra labels” that end up in the garbage. You use every label you pay for, every time.
The current method of using adhesive labels on a carrier is expensive. The PRINTRAYCE liner-less label is a self-wound label product & uses a new revolutionary label design which starts out with a huge cost advantage. This label concept has no real competition & sets a new standard!
And it’s not just less adhesive it is WAY less, less than half the adhesive used in the traditional fruit labeling system! The PRINTRAYCE label does not need useless adhesive because of where the labels are applied in the packing process and this allows you to offer a label that for the first time really serves both the retailer & the consumer. Now that is smart for your business!
So we actually print the adhesive on the back of this label! The PRINTRAYCE label is the only label in the industry to print a small patch of at least 50% less adhesive setting a brand-new standard!
It is surprising even to us, but for every 1 million boxes of apples you pack it takes 4 tons of unnecessary waste to get it done. That’s waste at your suppliers facility in their production and waste at your facility, waste that they throw away and waste that you now pay to have removed, and ALL of this waste you now pay for in your current label cost!
You can stop the madness now with PRINTRAYCE Liner-less labels. Eliminate that cost and headache completely, with this ZERO-WASTE label product.
In addition, the PRINTRAYCE system a tray-application system gives your fruit a very a nice display with all the labels smartly applied on top.
Now your pack always appears on-purpose! This is the right way to display your fruit, always making the best presentation to the retailer, your customer and the consumer (the real customer). This is simply icing on the cake with PRINTRAYCE giving you extra value at the point of sale every time.
Less adhesive is also a very consumer friendly feature. Consumers don’t like labels on fruit so much. Now the PRINTRAYCE label on your fruit will be an increased blessing to the consumer! Easy to peel-away and peel from any direction, there is nothing like it on the market for quick removability. See for yourself, we are not exaggerating.
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Why PrinTrayce?
Technology. It has an impact on every corner of our lives, from the way we order food to the way we travel. Although technology is pervasive, it is rare to make a technological breakthrough that completely changes the face of an established industry.That is exactly the opportunity PRINTRAYCE offers to the apple-packing industry and beyond. PRINTRAYCE represents a breakthrough technology for labeling fruit that guarantees huge benefits, and all of this value for a lower cost.PRINTRAYCE has not even addressed the huge GREEN impact that these innovations bring to the fruit packing industry. But here again, this GREEN technology not only has far reaching benefits but unlike most GREEN technologies promoted today, the cost of this product is dramatically below the former state of the art. Our brand new method of taking old label technology and implementing new label manufacturing and application equipment is the beginning of a new revolution in the fresh fruit packing industry.Technology like this only comes along once every 20-30 years. This is your chance to get ahead of the competition. Don’t miss out.
About Us
We are labeling engineers at heart. PRINTRAYCE’s origins stretch back to 1997 when our parent company, Superior Tape and Label, received a request from grower-packer to address some of the traditional inefficiencies in their label application system.Over 20 years later, and we’re still at it. But that doesn’t mean we’re done innovating. The development of the liner-less PRINTRAYCE label is the foundation of all of our subsequent equipment development. As more of the industry comes to believe in the value of this cost-saving label, we believe the health and longevity of the fruit packing industry is going to become ever more dependent on systems-level innovation. PRINTRAYCE Systems will be right there continuing to be a great partner doing our part for the Eastern Washington apple packing industry and beyond.We see our role as innovators and teachers showing fruit packing companies how to integrate our liner-less label developments into all of the various fruit packing environments.
High Capacity Label Supply Roll
Unlike other label supply rolls that come in the form of narrow, flat rolls, the PRINTRAYCE labels are wound onto a high-capacity spool, much like fishing line on a reel or a bobbin of thread. This means that every roll of PRINTRAYCE labels can hold over 10 times the amount of labels as our competitors, reducing your roll change time and improving your production momentum.
Liner-less Direct Thermal On-Board On-Demand Imprinting
Say goodbye to expensive ink cartridges. The PRINTRAYCE central host computer system manages and imprints the variable information, such as the human-readable PLU number, the GS1 stacked Omni-directional 2D code, and the variety of the fruit. These are imprinted into our unique label material via the PRINTRAYCE System’s on-board direct thermal print engine. This process gives you instant print-on-demand flexibility.
Automatic Scan Code-Reader
Crisp, clean imprinting is the key to insuring every piece of fruit is scanned correctly at the point of sale. That’s why we’ve designed the PRINTRAYCE System to automatically scan the GS1 stacked 2D omni-directional machine readable code as it is imprinted by the on-board print engine. This ensures that each label will scan successfully, even at low-tech retail scanners. If the system detects that the scan is defective the system will first show a yellow warning light. If the scan cannot be read for more than 2 or 3 scans, the system will require that the print head be cleaned or changed, a quick and easy operation.
Gentle Label Application Technology
The pneumatic applicators are driven by fast and accurate servo motors to handle every tray configuration the industry may use. The applicator uses a small amount of vacuum and air pressure to carry the label through the print-cut-application process. The PRINTRAYCE System is pre-programmed for the entire industry library of tray configurations, allowing the proper tray to be chosen on each tray line enabling labels row-by-row to be placed on the top-dead-center of each piece of fruit within the tray. The system design allows for the minimum amount of adhesive, which serves the end consumer as never before possible.
End-of-Line, In-Tray Application
Most label systems label your fruit at the top of the packing facility forcing that label to withstand the long journey to packing, often at the messy expense of your brushes, cups, and conveyor belts. The PRINTRAYCE system shifts the focus on labeling to the end of the line. This means that you can easily transition to in-tray packing and maintain 100% label coverage without having the additional cost of cleaning labels off your equipment or shutting down production during the changeover.
PT Scepter
The PT Scepter was specifically designed to work with PrinTrayce liner less labels and is the only labeler on the market for semi-automatic application of pre-printed tape in-register. Each PTA System includes a complementary PT Scepter which prevents downtime on your lines during servicing or supply roll changes. The PT Scepter is also used with tubs and accumulation belts where small quantities of fruit are hand packed and semi-automatically labeled. The PT Scepter opens similar to a manual stapler, allowing the user to quickly load a new roll of labels.
PT Winder
The PT Winder imprints small rolls of labels on-demand. These flat rolls fit into the PT Scepter for semi-automatic hand application. Each roll is automatically scanned throughout the imprinting process. The PT Winder uses the same high capacity supply-spools of generic labels as the auto-tray labeling system. So, if your facility already uses the automatic PrinTrayce tray labeling system. This eliminates the need for additional inventory. The PT Winder system comes with all of your digital label variable data formats pre-loaded.
Central Print Management System
The Central Host Computer is the only piece of hardware-software that you need to remotely operate and manage PRINTRAYCE Systems on multiple tray packing lines from one central location. The packing boss can easily choose the variety of fruit that you will be packing on each tray-line when setting up for a new variety of fruit. This Host System allows the packing boss real print-on-demand control from a single location, ensuring the right information is on the corresponding fruit. This system can be tied to your current packing line software, if that is more desirable. PRINTRAYCE Systems has established a process for easily moving from one code to another (or from one variety to another), allowing the packing boss to easily coordinate with the floor managers for these changes.
