Linx continues to deliver for Taylors of Harrogate

The excellent relationship between Linx Printing Technologies and Taylors of Harrogate – manufacturers of the much-loved Yorkshire Tea brand – has been underlined by the installation of two new Linx 500SL laser coders to service new production lines at the company’s Harrogate production facility.

Taylors of Harrogate has been using Linx laser coders for ten years to code onto the cardboard packaging used for Yorkshire Tea and today has eight machines on-site. The new Linx 500SL scribing lasers have been purchased to code onto export packs of Taylors of Harrogate English Breakfast tea.

Production speeds of 50 boxes a minute are well within the coders’ capabilities, whilst the Linx 500SL easily meets the requirement to print a large number of complex characters onto each box. For example, Mandarin symbols are required for packs created for the Chinese market.

Information to be printed is downloaded directly to the Linx lasers from the Taylor’s server, ensuring the accuracy of unfamiliar languages that operators would find hard to replicate.

Yorkshire Tea packs distributed to the UK market are coded using a Linx 500SL and the dot matrix lasers, which were already installed on site. These print a 6mm code, comprising Use By date and an internal traceability code, onto the packs.