Continuous version of popular 53LTi thermal transfer coder.

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Reinforcing its position at the forefront of high performance coding and marking technology, Allen Coding Systems--part of the global ITW Group--has launched a continuous version of its popular, low cost 53LTi coder. Minimal investment, superb print quality, reliability, product traceability and ease of use combine to make the new 53LTc one of the best value thermal transfer systems available on the market today.

Like the well-proven 53LTi model, Allen Coding's new 53LTc is priced competitively with most hot foil systems and in comparison offers reduced maintenance and type changes, resulting in a lower cost of ownership. These key benefits enable customers to affordably upgrade to this more versatile thermal transfer unit, which has been specially developed to efficiently and accurately print vital fixed and variable text and graphics.

Adrian Shepherd, Managing Director at Allen Coding comments: "Shipments of the 53LTi have considerably exceeded expectations and now the 53LTc will help customers with Continuous Applications lower their cost of print ownership as well. It's great to have a leading edge product that's ahead of our major competitors at a lower price."

The advantage of the 53LTc, which was originally developed with the food industry and users of hot foil coders in mind, is that it provides many of the advanced features of more expensive thermal transfer units, but at a fraction of the cost. These include 300 dpi print resolution; cassette ribbon loading; 600-metre ribbon capacity; 53mm (wide) x 50mm (length) print area with print speeds up to 400mm per second; and a best of breed thermal print head.

In addition, the ability to print two-dimensional data matrix codes makes the 53LTc perfect for pharmaceutical applications.

A robustly engineered machine, the 53LTc can be easily integrated with a wide range of packaging, labelling and other equipment where the substrate material or object to be printed is fed continuously.

The ragged 53LTc is a space-saving, two-component model. Compared to traditional three-component thermal transfer printers with multiple connection points, the design of the 53LTc offers a single connection point, minimising space requirement and further improving reliability.

The affordable 53LTc comes as standard with an operator keypad and Windows-based full-featured label design software. With full clock and calendar functions as well as serialisation, the coder can print fixed and variable data. It is ideal for marking labels and other packaging substrate with RSS barcodes; linear and composite barcodes; real time; sell-by dates; batch numbers; company logos; prices and source codes.

Contact Allen Coding System on tel [phone] or visit www.allencoding.co.uk