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Coding and marking specialist Rotech is to showcase its new RF1 range of stack to stack feeders at the PPMA Show - NEC Birmingham 27th-29th September Stand A60

French CIP-13 legislation has now come into force requiring pharmaceutical packs to carry not only a lot and expiry date, but also a 13 digit "CIP" number along with a 2-dimensional datamatrix barcode that carries the same information in a machine readable format.

Generally, offline coding is performed before the packaging meets the product, but there may be instances when it is more appropriate to print the pack after it is filled. One such case is the addition of a CIP-13 datamatrix bar code to the end flap of a pharmaceutical carton.

Offline printing, labelling and scanning cuts complexity

If you supply a pharmaceutical product into the French or Turkish markets, Rotech can help you comply with CIP-13 legislation for the addition of 2-dimensional barcodes

Now you can lease a clean, maintenance free inkjet printer from just £175.00 per month ...

If you are a pharmaceutical manufacturer that produces products for the French market, you will be aware of the requirement for all packs to carry a 2-dimensional Data Matrix barcode with product code, lot and expiry details as from 1st January 2011.

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As a continually evolving technology, Apsolute thermal inkjet (TIJ) technology has been the subject of many myths

If you run a continuous ink jet (CIJ) printer, especially if it's more than a couple of years old, you will undoubtedly be spending significant sums on maintenance and spare parts as well as having to buy expensive fluids to keep the printer running, even when it's not printing.