tna, Coppell, Texas, launched the tna intelli-date 5, a high-speed thermal transfer overprint (TTO) date coder with airless design and integrated print code verification technology for continuously high-quality printing on flexible bags.

Squid Ink Manufacturing, Inc., Brooklyn Park, Minn., introduced the new SQ-TTO Series of thermal transfer overprinters, which offer consistent, high-resolution print quality for the food and beverage industry.

As flexible packaging becomes thinner and thinner to improve sustainability scores, the challenge becomes greater and more difficult to consistently apply legible “date codes.” Thankfully, new technologies in materials and machinery have advanced the use of reduced substrates in most flexible packaging applications.