Labeling

Combining Coding with Labeling

A family of modular labeling solutions can apply labels and print Data Matrix codes to enhance package security.

Marchesini Group now offers international pharmaceutical companies packaging-line solutions for item-level serialization. Because of the growing interest in Data Matrix for encoding lot, expiry date, production factory data, etc., Marchesini offers a new labeling sytem that can also apply the space-saving codes.

New Solutions Address Change

As packagers explore labeling alternatives, cartoner vendors fit advanced features into smaller spaces.

By David Vaczek
Senior Editor

FDA requirements for drug product labeling have created demand for larger inserts and expanded labels. Among recent guidance, the Med Guide requirement for prescription antidepressants was extended to include NSAIDs. As of 2007, packagers have added panels to bottle and pouch labels to accommodate warnings required on OTC pain-relief medications.

Ribbon-Winning Labels

PACKAGING RESOURCE CENTER

The Latest in Coding and Labeling

The Read on Packaging Security

Labelers are supporting companies’ efforts to launch packaging and supply-chain anticounterfeiting solutions.

By David Vaczek

A Shifting View on Authentication Devices

Choices abound in authentication features, and packagers seem to be trying them all, according to label providers.

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“Everybody wants to know what is available and to be prepared. But different clients are taking vastly different approaches,” says Howard Auerbach, president, Plymouth Printing Co. (Cranford, NJ).

John Henry Tries HP Security Publishing Software

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John Henry Packaging Group (Lansing, MI) is testing a new software solution from Hewlett Packard Co. that prints labels with multiple security features linked to a publishing software database record. The software runs on HP’s Indigo digital printers.