Digital food inkjet decoration
We present our digital decoration, applicable in production and non-production lines, without dyes or chemical additives.
We add color... Even without dyes!
Your packaging claim can remain "WITHOUT", because we know how important that is right now.
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Digital will allow you to invent new campaigns, whether seasonal or "limited edition", and you can make each of your pieces unique. And your product can be:
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Decorated, to have more appeal in impulse selling.
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Personalized, because you want to make your brand unmistakable.
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Made unique, when the marketer wants to let his imagination run wild or propose a different decoration in the same package.
Edible liquids
"We do it in all colors!"
After many, many attempts at development, we know that edible liquids for food decoration are strongly influenced or affected by factors such as:​
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Chemical-rheological parameters (to achieve the righ "throwability").
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Production process, environmental conditions and substrate to be decorated.
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Compliance with various food laws and regulations worldwide (CE, FDS, etc.). Religions (Kosher, Halal) or lifestyles (for example Vegan).
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Marketing, consumer "rules", various claims on product labels.
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Cost per print/piece, strictly dependent on depth of color, process and marketing objective.
It is not always possible to achieve all this simultaneously, especially with a single technology and type of color. Xlogic has
succeeded, and has developed several families of liquids precisely to suit.
Azo liquids.
Not all of these dyes are permitted, accepted, tolerated by each country's regulations or accepted by manufacturers/consumers. They must be declared on the label with the relevant abbreviation "E-1XX". Better color contrast/depth and longer shelf life (12-18 months).
Azo-free liquids .
More tolerated by regulations, consumers and more careful manufacturers' policies.
Can be declared with the name of the component and not "E-1XX".
Less color contrast/depth and shorter shelf life in some cases (12 or 6 months).
Natural liquids.
They are fully and completely tolerated by regulations, also accepted by manufactures of special or organic foods.
They are declared as components, not as "E-1XX".
Lower contrast and color depth. Shorter shelf life (6 months).
Case history
Decoration of round ice cream wafers
In 2010 our first customer made a purchase, a four-color printer for the decoration of round wafers, the ones that are then placed on top of the cone as an embellishment.​ The customer does not produce them, only markets them, but has the pulse of the situation. Someone has thought that it could become a marketing tool, so they asked for the possibility of decorating them with comic or cartoon characters.
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We produce the first decoration station with printer integrated on a small belt conveyor, where an
operator loads the neutral wafers by hand and decorated output.​ The production, which was
previously carried out by multi-passed semiautomatic printers, increased from 8000
wafers per day to 8000 wafers per hour. Slowly, the possibility became a requirement,
because whoever runs an ice cream parlor wants to display their brand.
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In 2015, the manufacturers of cones and waffles begin to move. Because now
decoration is something that allows you to acquire new customers and, above all,
increase margins. There is one catch: manufacturers want to decorate online. There are
problems of all kinds, dust, high temperature, condensation. We decide to be honest, to
the first customers we admit that they are the first, consequently we don't have as much
experience, but we are continuing to study non-stop.
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We involve them in developments and innovations, and we make them try them out themselves.
They tell us that the machines amortize in six months, and after buying the first one, they buy the
second, third and fourth, and each season they increase productivity, because yields.​ Today, 90% of
Italian producers decorate their waffles with printers (strictly plural) Xlogic. Many European manufacturers decorate their waffles with Xlogic machines. All Australian manufacturers, even though there are only two in their country, decorate their waffles with Xlogic machines.
Decorating sponge cakes
We are in Spain, in 2014, the snacks of a large company, made from sponge cake sandwiches
filled with chocolate cream, have a drop in sales.​ Marketing decides to try decoration.
We install the first machine as an operational demo for six months, due to the bad
previous experiences that make the customer sceptical.
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The technical service is surprised and equally pleased, the machines work with an
efficiency they were not used to. We ca start and install six printers in parallel. In the
first year of decoration, the sales say +150%. Today there are ten printers. The
customer is so satisfied with the relationship that has been created that they continue
to sponsor us as if we were their partner.
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Decoration of semi-finished "UFOs" in wafer
Also in Spain, in 2017, we are in the middle a typical installation on ice cream wafers. Again, the satisfaction is high, and the same customer asks us if he can show the printer to the neighboring company, with whom have been collaborating for some time. The owner reaches us, looks at the machine, and immediately
brings us one of his products, a small "flying disc", to check the feasibility, given that the shape
is concave.
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The print is perfect, the surface allows excellent definition and instant drying. Start the
project, which is not easy. The printer must be made to measure, because the shape
of the product and the layout of the prints require adjustments made to specification.
The heads to be aligned perfectly are 8, for a total print area of 450mm in length and
a width of 280mm non-consecutive.
This is because in the centre there is a part of the area that cannot be decorated, which
requires a particular positioning of the heads. The product is 50cm long and 40cm long
and very, very fragile, very difficult to handle and handling. Given the difficulty, we advise
the customer to also take charge of the transport and guidance of the product during the
printing phase, aware that in this type of applications the precision in the advancement of the
product is more important than the printing itself.
A station is delivered complete with printer, double electric lifting system, food conveyor belt, side and
top containment guides top, which the customer uses to decorate its products off the production line. They, too, and even today, continue to use our system.
