Printing on plastic bottles

Plastic Bottle Printing

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) has long been used as a liquid container in the carbonated soft drink, bottled water, energy and fruit drinks markets due to its inherent properties of strength, flexibility and transparency. Additionally, PET bottles are gaining popularity over materials like HDPE for packaging consumer products such as shampoo.

Videojet’s application expertise in PET marking and printing on plastic bottles spans many years, including indepth knowledge of trends such as lightweighting. PET bottles are most commonly marked using continuous inkjet (CIJ) and laser printing solutions. Videojet offers a number of unique ink formulations that provide quality inkjet codes on PET and laser systems for high resolution, permanent marks.