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SATO CL412e

Thermal Transfer Printer

The SATO CL412e is our recommended industrial quality printer for all electronics label applications when using polyimide and polyester materials. It is ideally suited to small part labelling such as PCB barcode labels, serial number labels, component identification (device labelling) and rating plate labels. The SATO CL412e accepts all our standard stock thermal transfer labels and compatible ribbons.

  See our Labels Blog for more information on Label & Ribbon Materials, Barcoding and Printing.

 

Label Printing Service

If it’s only one or two labels you require or a run of 10,000 we can print your labels for you.

When starting a new project it can be difficult to justify a roll of 5k or 10k of labels when you may only need 100 labels for you first prototype or production batch.

Thermal Transfer printing may be a new requirement for you so you may need labels printing as your project does not or has not yet justified investing in your own printer.

What ever your reason for needing a thermal transfer label printing service, we can provide this, including the selection of the label size, label material, ribbon durability type and label graphics design.

So if you have a label you need in a hurry, contact our team supplying the label size, application, quantity required and label graphic design and we shall quote you a price and lead time for the print job

Label Graphic Design

We can design and print labels for many applications to include your company logo, custom graphics, serial No’s and barcodes, in colours of you choosing.

Either supply your own design with specific requirements for you label or supply the information you need on the label and we can design the label for you.

Barcode Labels

If you require barcode labels we will manage your barcode printing for you, ensuring you never have a duplicate barcode label.
We can print durable thermal transfer barcode labels for all environments.

Name Plate Labels

Design your own personalised name plate to identify your equipment. We can print a variety of information such as barcode/serial numbers and company logo.

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Thermal Transfer Ribbons

Application Guide

For any durable label application, both print quality and resistance of the printed image when exposed to
chemicals and abrasion is essential. In most cases the base label material is identified first as it needs
to fulfil its key objective, e.g. a Polyimide material for PCB serial number labels, required to withstand the
SMT reflow or direct wave processes.

The ribbon choice however is more complex and the range of thermal transfer ribbons is vast therefore
in order to achieve the best printed label result it’s important to select an optimum thermal transfer
ribbon suitable for the label material, the application and for the thermal transfer label printer itself. Given
that a typical manufactured product could be using any or all the label types listed below we also need to
consider ribbons that can provide flexibility by offering high quality printing across a wide range of
materials and applications.

For this reason Link Hamson has selected some key performance ribbons ideal for the electronics
manufacturing industry:-

For versatility our RHT40 is a clear winner and our most popular resin ribbon. It’s suitable for use with all
our polyimide, polyester and vinyl label materials and offers good performance on our standard paper
label materials. Available to suit all the major thermal transfer printers such as SATO, Zebra, Datamax
and TEC it’s simply the most cost effective single ribbon solution for thermal transfer printing.
For maximum solvent resistance our 140 ribbon can be used with polyimide and polyester label
materials for use through the PCB cleaning process even with high density barcodes.

For maximum durability our 181 ribbon combined with our high durability white or metallised polyester
label materials offers an ultra high durable label solution for very harsh environments.

 See our Labels Blog for more information on Label & Ribbon Materials, Barcoding and Printing.