Lake
Image Systems Inc., a leading supplier of print quality inspection, variable
data verification and integrity management solutions, announced that its
award-winning Discovery Read&Print for RFID, has been fully integrated into
Tamarack’s inline and offline RFID inlay production modules, used in Tamarack’s
P500 and RFID Extreme products. During RFID Inlay insertion process, the
integration ensures real-time, single pass RFID reading and encoding with
inline inkjet label printing, tracking and camera verification for automated,
high speed and high quality, multi-lane RFID tags and label production.
According
to IDTechEx, the global RFID tags and labels market value is expected to grow
to $1.4B by 2022, up from $0.65B in 2016 1 . A key driver to this growth will
be the industry’s capacity to offer high volumes of affordable, reliable and
fully personalized RFID tags and labels for the Retail, Security,
Manufacturing, and Leisure and Transportation markets.
This
integrated solution allows printers and converters to economically manufacture
fully inlayed RFID labels and tags, encode them with variable data, with
synchronized inkjet label printing, all on a single device, with built-in error
verification and RFID data to print matching.
“Lake
Image Systems stood out as one of a handful of companies that had the expertise
and technology to bring all the various elements, onto our RFID inlay
equipment, to produce fully verified, variably printed and encoded RFID tags
and Labels at production speeds,” said Tamarack’s President David Steidinger.
“By expanding our product offering to include integrated inkjet printing with
reliable, real-time production verification, we now have a high performance,
robust and automated solution to satisfy this challenging requirement from our clients.”
“Throughout
the 25 years in the inspection industry, continuous innovation and expanding
the value of our Discovery Platform to new markets, has been the cornerstone of
our growth strategy“, commented Scott Stevens, President of Lake Image Systems,
Inc. “Our integration on to Tamarack’s RFID inlay tags and labels manufacturing
equipment has unified normally disparate production steps into a single,
seamless process – enabling their clients to benefit from all the potential
business benefits of reduced labor, higher speeds and better quality.”