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Coding & Marking Solutions

Squid Ink is a leading manufacturer of coding and marking systems for product identification and traceability, providing superior quality inks and low maintenance printing equipment. Squid Ink’s family of coding and marking products include a complete line of hi-res piezo printing systems, CIJ (continuous ink jet) printing systems, TIJ (thermal ink jet) printing systems, DOD (drop-on-demand) printing systems, laser coders, and a full library of inks and ink jet fluids. Our printers and ink are designed to print the highest quality bar codes, batch numbers, date codes, logos and large or small character text, directly onto corrugated cases, plastics, metals, glass, wood and other substrates.

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Hi-Resolution Industrial Inkjet Printers

Squid Ink hi-resolution printers and inks are designed to print the highest quality bar codes, batch numbers, date codes, logos and large or small character text, directly onto corrugated cases, plastics, metals, film, glass, wood and other substrates. Squid Ink printing systems are used in industries including food and beverage, building products, medical and pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and other manufactured products.

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Thermal Inkjet Printers

Squid Ink’s Viper thermal inkjet printer utilizes revolutionary Funai® technology to print superior quality hi-resolution characters on porous or non-porous surfaces that dry in seconds. With up to 0.5” (12.7mm) of print height per printhead, the Viper offers a versatile, yet cost-effective solution for your coding and marking applications.

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CIJ Small Character Coders

Squid Ink’s JetStream, JetStream Sonic, JetStream IP, and JetStream PX CIJ printing systems are designed to print superior quality small characters on a variety of substrates: porous, non-porous, smooth, textured, curved, concave and more. Printing up to 5 lines of text, the JetStream offers a reliable, yet cost effective solution for virtually any small character, primary package coding application.

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Laser Coders

Squid Ink offers a range of CO2, Fiber, and UV laser coding systems which are designed for high speed food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and other primary coding applications. Squid Ink lasers can permanently mark onto paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, wood, coated metal, leather, and more.

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UV LED Ink Curing Systems

Air and Water-Cooled UV LED Curing Systems from Squid Ink offers accurate and consistent UV curing across a variety of commercial and industrial applications. Whether you need to cure ink on metal, glass, automotive products, plastics, electronics and more, you’re sure to find the right solution with Squid Ink’s UV LED Curing Systems.

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DOD Large Character Industrial Inkjet Printers

Squid Ink’s line of dot matrix industrial inkjet printers are ideal for printing large character date codes, lot codes, user-definable time and date and more. Our DOD printers offer more options for making your mark; water-based systems for printing on porous surfaces like corrugated cases, or solvent-based systems for printing on non-porous products like plastics, metals or more.

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Coding & Marking Software

Squid Ink’s coding and marking software makes message programming and printer integration a breeze. The Orion and Sirius software packages allow the user to easily connect to Squid Ink’s family of printers. The software enables the ability to create industrial inkjet messages using a powerful graphical user interface and connect to the printer via wi-fi or ethernet.

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Inkjet Inks & Replacement Fluids

Squid Ink offers a complete line of replacement drop-on-demand (DOD) inks, Hi-Res inks, and continuous ink jet (CIJ) make-up fluids. When it comes to ink jet printing, you can rely on Squid Ink to offer a better solution–the right solution–with our complete line of replacement coding and marking fluids.

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Thermal Inkjet Printers

Squid Ink’s Viper thermal inkjet printer utilizes revolutionary Funai® technology to print superior quality hi-resolution characters on porous or non-porous surfaces. With up to 0.5” (12.7mm) of print height per printhead, the Viper offers a versatile, yet cost-effective solution for your coding and marking applications.

CoPilot Max Hi-Resolution Printing System

Squid Ink’s CoPilot® Max printing system is designed to print superior quality hi-resolution characters on porous or non-porous surfaces. For applications that require immediate dry times on non-porous surfaces, the CoPilot Max also has the capability to run UV LED curable inks. With up to 2.8” of print height per printhead and the ability to run up to 2 printheads from one controller, the CoPilot Max offers a versatile, yet cost effective solution for your coding and marking applications.

JetStream CIJ Printers

Squid Ink’s JetStreamCIJ printing system is designed to print superior quality small characters on a variety of substrates: porous, non-porous, smooth, textured, curved, concave, and more. Printing up to 5 lines of text, the JetStream offers a reliable, yet cost-effective solution for virtually any small character, primary product coding application.

SQ-Laser System

Squid Ink’s line of laser coding systems are designed to help the user efficiently code their products with a high quality, durable mark that will stand the test of time. Our laser systems are designed to code on a wide variety of substrates including ceramics, plastics, metals, rubber, composite material, and more.

Squid Ink Manufacturing

7041 Boone Avenue North
Brooklyn Park, MN 55428