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Food packaging has already been used by the public for a long time, and the early packaging can be made with a glass bottle and metal can, those ways of food packaging allow the majority to get the great flavour of food, which the producers expect to present to the customers. Due to the people, lifestyles and consumer methods have changed, the method of food-package has already separated into different forms, and most command ways of food packaging steadily change to plastic and paper packaging from glass and metal one.

However, whether you got your stuff or food from a glass bottle, metal can, paper packaging or plastic packaging, most of us generally prefer to observe the out pack of product, and the thing we usually notice is what kinds of ingredients or elements included in this product, where does this product made from, when is it last enjoys date or how much should I cost, and something else, those things usually allow us to know more detail on the product.


How do producers display this kind of information to the public?
According to the former paragraphs, we have known that customers can get various information on each food package. That information generally can be displayed in distinct ways, which included the way of digital printing or laser printing and laser marking.

Basic things you need to know with Digital & Laser printing.
The method of digital printing and laser printing is usually used on the plastic package and paper packages, such as the package of cookies, biscuits and other snacks, or the shopping bag in which you buy your clothes from famous clothes shops, for example, ZARA, H&M, GAP, etc. There is a tendency that this kind of method to be easy for each producer to display each piece of information and figure on the package with ink, it also does not need to spend huge costs on the printing machine.


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However, there is a point that needs to be concern by users, who use digital printing machines and laser printing ones, and this point is about the issue of ink, if we print any mark on the paper package, it usually can be successfully marked, but we need to concern the ingredient or types with ink when we print marks on the plastic package.

As far as we knew that plastic material sometimes can be separated into polar plastics and non-polar ones, so when you want to display any information on your plastic product through digital & laser printing equipment, you need to notice that is your ink suitable for your product, for example, is this ink can successfully marl on your product, or if this ink mark on your product, and is it can colour on it for a long time? If those kinds of points do not consider by you before you start printing information, it could affect your clients and users of the end product.

Another way to show your information on your product.
According to the second paragraph we have mentioned totally two types of methods which can help us to print or mark any information on the product, and we have already known digital or laser printing and its basic information. Moreover, another way of printing information on your product which can use laser marking.
The method of laser marking or engraving usually can be used on variant materials, which included glass, metal, paper, plastic and others, which you can find in the below video.

 
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Moreover, the laser marking machine can allow users to print and mark every piece of information on each stuff, and you do not need to spend lots of time on the issues of can this information is successfully shown out, or can they be permanently exhibited on your stuff.

The elemental things need to be concerned by users
There is an elemental point that needs to be considered by the users of laser marking when they try to use this printing method and start getting this kind of equipment. These kinds of laser marking equipment usually separate various types of them, and you can generally know three of them in each industrial, first one is a fibre laser machine, another is a CO₂ laser machine, and the other is a UV laser machine.

Therefore, the way of separating those three types of machines through which kind of material of the product you require to marking result, which as we said at former paragraphs, laser marking can easily show information on various material, such as metal, plastic, paper, glass, wood and even stones. However, their way to create any mark is often the same, which is focused beams of light that contain high levels of energy. Its energy is transferred in the form of heat when a laser beam hits a range of surfaces, which will create black and white words or figures, and sometimes shown through engraving way.

Different points of each laser equipment
  Moreover, its wavelength usually locates around 1064 nm, which is within the standard wavelength range, and its capable of marking a wide range of materials, including metals and resins. Furthermore, high power is particularly suited for marking and deep engraving on metal. However, fibre laser markers cannot be used to mark transparent objects like glass and other transparent plastic as the light easily passes through them.