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Customer demand has prompted leading sandwich manufacturer Buckingham Foods to install six Domino V200 thermal transfer printers.

Milton Keynes-based Buckingham Foods took the decision to invest in the machines after a key customer moved from thermoformed sandwich packs to flow wrapped packs.

The six machines have been installed over the period from April 2008 to January 2009.

Buckingham Foods had experienced problems with thermal transfer printers in the past and so decided to replace its existing technology with Domino machines, the supplier of its five A200 continuous ink jet printers and two S200 laser printers.

"We were experiencing frequent unplanned downtime and often needed to run additional lines in order to meet customer despatch times, which obviously led to an increase in operating costs," said Buckingham Foods's chief engineer Dave Courtney.

Courtney added that the company is now able to handle around 2,000 products in a typical run, "only having to spend seconds to reset the code format", as the machine operates at 30 metres per minute.

The V200 also features Domino's patented Ribbon Economy feature that can provide savings of up to 60% for coding onto paper laminated film.

Domino added the V200 technology to its portfolio following the acquisition of Easyprint in December 2006.