CN1271319A - Application of substances on a package - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for producing a packaging system (4) comprising a first step, the packaging system comprising a hollow body (4), the first step consisting in applying a first substance onto a selected surface area of the packaging system by use of first application means (5), the selected surface area and the hollow body (4) being both in motion relative to the first application means (5) and the selected surface area being solely in contact with the first substance during the first step. The process also comprises a second step which consists in applying a second substance onto the selected surface area by use of second application means after completion of the first step, the selected surface area and the hollow body being both in motion relative to the second application means and the selected surface area being solely in contact with the second substance during the second step, the process taking place at a continuous line speed.
Description
Technical field
The present invention is about producing the method for the packaging system that is formed by ducted body on manufacturing line.
Background of invention
The method of Production and Packaging system is used widely on manufacturing line, in consumer goods industries.Usually, this packaging system is formed, prints, fills, and is used for the store and forward article.Especially the technology that adds material on the selected surf zone of this packaging system in most of the cases is exclusively used on this packaging system prints.Existing printing technology has multiple.First kind of printing technology of industrial use comprises the label that printing is a large amount of, and it is stored on the big reel, and this reel is delivered on the manufacturing line label is adhered on the bottle then.Second kind of printing technology comprises and directly printing ink being added on the bottle outside face that wherein folder may be tailored to indication such as date manufactured or special reference number.
The present invention is about a kind of method that is used for the Production and Packaging system, it comprises first and second steps, this packaging system comprises a ducted body, first step comprises that employing first handling device is added to first kind of material on the selected surface of packaging system, selected surf zone and ducted body all move with respect to first handling device, in first step, selected surface region only contacts with first material.Known this method from second printing technology above-mentioned, wherein printed matter directly is added on the bottle, and the letter and number of printing is formed by a plurality of stains usually.
With respect in the moving of handling device business information is directly printed onto advantage on the bottle be can production information different bottle mutually, and can be on manufacturing line high speed printing.This method is particularly useful in food and the pharmaceutical industries, and wherein package is preferably with discriminating digit or date manufactured.Common this commercial printing is different from the existing printing process of above-mentioned first kind other, and wherein label is before being glued onto on the bottle on the manufacturing line, is printed in advance dividually and is stored on the cylinder by independent method.In fact, in the method for the cylinder of this employing printed label, all labels all are identical, and any label will be corresponding with any bottle on the manufacturing line.Yet the method for the cylinder of this employing printed label can be used the label of the image with quite high visibility, rather than the letter or number that is formed by the monochromatic color point of limited amount.
Although have such-and-such advantage, existing method especially adopts the cylinder of printed label or the method for commercial printing dot matrix all to have shortcoming on manufacturing line.For example, the visibility that the method for commercial printing dot matrix produces is relatively poor, should be used to print a kind of simple information of color, as the date, should not print the image or the design of high definition.In addition, adopt the method for printed label cylinder not have manoevreability, will require cylinder also to change when label design changes, this will be referred to manufacturing line and stops to produce or require to have the twin-roll support system to produce non-stop situation change cylinder at manufacturing line.Under any circumstance, adopt the cylinder of printed label all to require to store satisfactory multiple label, as the label of directly not producing at manufacturing line.
Concerning the container of consumer products, it is very common having the special quality printed images, and these images have the trade mark design form, also has information such as the composition prepared for the customer and/or guide for use.Usually, these image printings adhere on the container after the protective material of the glue of removing the back side on the label of band pressure sensitive adhesive again.Yet it is difficult at a high speed this label accurately being added on the container, because back side paper is torn to shreds or the expensive possibly time of extruding of label.In addition, label is printing separately, and this again can be expensive time-consuming.It also is expensive also must add exhaust steam that label is pressed layer and backing paper.The factory next door must be provided with the space and set up the inventory of stored tag, thereby guarantees to stick on proper container correct label.
Another shortcoming that adopts label is that remaining label just must be thrown away, and prints new label if decorative pattern changes.Count in going through from new label, make new printing cylinder or plate.Printing and the label and carry out and paste to prepare to want usually 4～6 time-of-weeks of passing on.
In addition, people have adopted the screen printing technology that image is directly printed onto on the container.But this technical speed is slower.Slower when especially printing multicolor image, the quality of image also is restricted.Usually adopt screen printing only to print one to four kind of color on any one time, the result makes the complexity of decorative picture restricted.If require many colors, can adopt container is repeatedly accomplished by print station, but this will increase cost greatly.In addition, when adopt non-circular container, as oval or when having the complex curve shapes of containers, screen printing is very slow, operating speed is low to 50 containers of per minute, at most to 100 containers.
In addition, the web plate that uses in screen printing will be spent very long manufacturing time, and this web plate will often be replaced, and this has increased cost again.
The heat conduction technology has been used for image is directly printed onto container.This technical speed is very slow and picture quality is relatively poor.Conduction mechanism is added in pressure/heat on the container to be printed and may causes container to damage in addition, and obviously this is nonconforming.Conductive process requires to use conductive membranes in addition, and this unnecessarily causes waste again and has increased cost.
People know, adopt the digital printed technology as ink-jet and laser technology class can obtain the special quality image, and these technology have manoevreability in their application.Common water of ink jet printing or oil-based ink are used for printing sheets or other sorbing material.In prior art, narrated and be used for ink ejecting method circular and non-circular container, also narrated and have method certain speed, that should be used for contemporary commodity production.
For example, Can.P. 1277176 discloses the method and apparatus that a kind of employing ink ejecting method is decorated the container that is generally round section (circular or oval).This method relies on container to be printed relative motion with respect to ink jet printing head, forms total image with segmented mode.Make container rotate and make it along moving axially of this and ink gun keeps static method or all can print by rotary container and method that ink gun is moved along the longitudinal axis segmentation of container simply simultaneously if adopt around its longitudinal axis.Therefore it is slow forming final image.In addition since during printing the moving of container by ink gun, so this method is not suitable for usually in the continuous mode that satisfies contemporary rate request and prints a large amount of containers.A similar techniques also is disclosed among GB-2107 414 A.
U.S. Patent No. 5029523 discloses a kind of method and apparatus that is used for printed pattern on the annular sidewall of noncircular vessel.This device comprises quite complicated machines for treating containers structure, this mechanism comprises a container carrier, the configuration of the annular wall of carriage and the sidewall of container are complementary, and it will make the sidewall of container pass through in ink gun the place ahead with constant distance by the roll gap between two rollers of adjacent ink gun.
The container that this method and apparatus is only applicable to print tubular container or has an opening at least in the bottom size scope is not suitable for the printing bottle.In addition, print a large amount of containers only can with begin-mode of stopping to carry out, and can not carry out continuously because each container must change a whole circle before print head before travelling forward, travelling forward then makes other container move into the printing position.Therefore, this printing process is slowly, is less than 100 containers of per minute usually, and it is not suitable for commercial printing with bottle and so in the present age, and contemporary commercial printing requires 150～500 containers of per minute usually.
The present invention makes every effort to provide a kind of method of producing the packaging system of above-mentioned kind, and it can provide manoevreability to have high rotating speed again when appending to a material in the packaging system, can also operate in industrial bigger speed range.
Summary of the invention
According to the present invention, this purpose is reached by a kind of method of above-mentioned kind, wherein second step is included in after first step finishes, adopt second handling device that second kind of material is added on the selected surf zone, selected surf zone is all done moving relative to second additional device with ducted body, should only contact with second material by selected surface region in second step, this method is used on continuous line speed.
Method of the present invention has many advantages.Owing to when it is included in ducted body and selected surf zone all with respect to the first or second device motion first and second kinds of er materials are added on the selected surf zone, it just can obtain directly producing the manoevreability of operation on manufacturing line, and be added to single material will high visibility on the selection area of packaging system.Owing to improved manoevreability, significantly reduced the storage of label on cylinder such as high definition, this has just reduced productive costs.In addition, manoevreability can also reduce the waste of the printed label that does not re-use, and is therefore favourable to environmental protection.
Detailed description of the present invention
Method of the present invention is about a kind of packaging system, and this packaging system is made up of a container.In another embodiment, also about the label of a container and container, they can lump together or separate this packaging system.In fact, according to the present invention, can process this packaging system in the following manner, selected surf zone can be handled the selected surf zone that is positioned on the label with method of the present invention before being added on the container on label.When selected surface added material, according to the present invention, even label is not added on the container, container was also moving.In fact all on manufacturing line, this manufacturing line is made and add label after printing for container and label.Blank label also can be added on the container, material can be added to when label has been fixed on the container on the selected surf zone on the label.In addition, can also be without label, thus material directly is added on the container.
The present invention is also about a kind of body, and the body of this hollow is a container usually, for example a kind of container of adorning the consumables.Therefore preferred container is to be made by the material that comprises thermoplastic base resin.
The first step of method of the present invention is included in selected zone and adds first material, and this material is a printing ink, and the most handy ink-jet technology adds.Selected zone and preferably covers 30cm at least on packaging system
2Therefore, this material can be added on the label, on container, one cover or box on.Add that this material accomplishes with first additional device.Common this device comprises the ink gun of an ink-jet printer, preferably has an ink gun of a plurality of nozzles.
According to the present invention, selected surf zone and ducted body all move with respect to first additional device.This does not hinder selected surf zone and ducted body to move independently, thereby label was printed before being added on the ducted body.Yet, referring to here, two members of this of packaging system all move on manufacturing line.Relatively move and to comprise the mobile member of forming by first additional device itself.When particularly printing on nonplanar selected surf zone, preferably mobile actuating device reaches selected surf zone.Under any circumstance, ducted body is also moving, and like this, under the situation of printing before label is added on the ducted body, ducted body moves towards tagged place on manufacturing line.In fact in a preferred embodiment, selected surf zone is on the surface of label, and label is adding that material is fixed on the bearing surface of packaging system later on again.This point is different with another preferred embodiment, and its selected surf zone is the integral part outside face of ducted body.
The present invention mentions that also selected surf zone only contacts with first material in first step.This means between any element and selected surf zone and do not have friction force.Should be noted that label itself can contact with bottle if selected surf zone is positioned on the label.In fact, this selected surf zone refers to the surface of a bidimensional.Friction force on this selected surf zone will appear in the screen printing, and its speed and method of the present invention are inconsistent.
Second step of the present invention is similar to first step and first step and then.
Method of the present invention can be carried out on the speed of any modern production line, and the modern production linear velocity depends on the complexity of used ink-jet technology and the quantity of printing the shower nozzle of same color.This is to move and do not have friction force to be added on the selected surf zone owing to the member of packaging system is continuous to accomplish.In addition, a plurality of handling device also can provide promotion aspect the higher growth line speed, can obtain gratifying operating effect simultaneously.The best operating speed of this method 10m/ minute at least, preferred value was at least 15m/ minute even 20m/ minute at least, and optimum value was at least 28m/ minute.
In a preferred embodiment, this method also comprises one or more additional steps, this additional step comprises: after step is in front finished, on selected surf zone, add extra material with another handling device, selected surf zone and ducted body all move with respect to handling device, in this extra step, selected surf zone only contacts with additional material.Should see and in each additional step, preferably add a kind of different material.A kind of most preferred embodiment comprises four extra steps, and each of six kinds of materials all is a kind of different printing ink, the high-resolution gray level image that can obtain the image of high-resolution like this and have high-contrast.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a kind of on such as the selected surf zone on nonplanar vessel surface the method for printed images comprise: the manufacturing line of mobile containers in a continuous manner, make it by having the ink gun of series of spray nozzles, these nozzles separate on perpendicular to a direction of container production line moving direction, and printing ink is by these nozzles ejections; When said vesse passes through ink gun, each container and/or ink gun are moved mutually, make ink gun like this and the distance between the vessel surface of printing is remained a constant substantially, make each part on above-mentioned surface only pass through ink gun once.
According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, a kind of device at the vessel surface printed images comprises the admittance seat that is used for each container, make the conveyer of admitting seat to move through the ink gun with series of spray nozzles in a continuous manner, nozzle sprays by nozzle perpendicular to the moving direction printing ink of admitting seat; Also comprise the device that each container and/or ink gun is moved mutually when said vesse, thereby during printing, make the distance between vessel surface to be printed and the ink gun remain a constant, and make each part on above-mentioned surface only pass through ink gun once.
The method and apparatus of embodiments of the invention can print or decorates nonplanar container with the speed that is suitable for commodity production.For example, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, this method can at least 150 containers of per minute printing, preferred number be 300 containers of per minute when obtaining the special quality image and avoiding damaging container, preferably up to 500 containers of per minute.
Another advantage of the present invention is that it should be used for the container or the label of difformity and/or different size and print different patterns and/or content.
It is it by removing label and back side paper, transmit all expensive printed panel of film or design and maintenance that the present invention also has an advantage, thus can be under than the situation that the method cost-cutting is arranged earlier decoration container.
Should see having container non-planar surfaces and that image is arranged at its surface printing by adopting aforesaid device or method to obtain.
In preferable methods of the present invention, the manufacturing line of container moves through ink gun continuously.In this application, a manufacturing line of container tries hard to comprise that a row container or a plurality of container pass through other design of an ink gun continuously.During printing, container can horizontal or vertically be placed, but had better vertically place.
In addition, when the manufacturing line of container was mobile continuously, referring to here had been continuous between this and the next container of printing on the manufacturing line, unless need the change method or the printing device that needs repairing, this container production line can ceaselessly move always.
During printing, between container that will printing and ink gun basic keep one very little and be the distance of constant substantially, otherwise, the position of the ink dot that produces on the vessel surface and big young pathbreaker change, on the part surface of printing, that some places cause is image blurring, other local images are too light, perhaps also can cause damaging ink gun or container.
Usually, before printing, surface and the distance setting between the ink gun that prints become a predetermined value, this distance remains on 0.2～4mm, is preferably 0.5～2.5mm usually, if distance is bigger, air-flow may influence ink-jet, causes poor image quality.Here it is in this application is the meaning of the distance of constant substantially.This distance preferably remains on the constant of 1mm or 0.5mm.
Predetermined distance is to keep by moving container and/or ink gun to be printed.For example, the profile that can make ink gun follow container to be printed moves.Yet, for simplicity, can make ink gun keep static, each container is moved with respect to them.In the case, be preferably in printing before, each container is positioned to the front portion that makes each container to be printed or edge, is on the predetermined distance being in from ink gun on the moving direction of container production line.Then container is moved step by step or rotate around its longitudinal axis, thereby when vessel surface moves past ink gun, it is that a predefined distance is last that its each part forwards to from ink gun, until till the rear portion of vessel surface or edge forward to when ink gun is a preset distance.When container to be printed has complicated shape, when it passes through ink gun, has the necessary backward rotation of making the container rotation direction.Certainly preferably on whole process velocity, each part of each container to be printed only by ink gun once.
At first rotation direction of Cai Yonging and angle will depend on the shape of container to be printed and the shape of inciting somebody to action curve subsequently.For example, if container moves as straight line substantially and has a protruding surface to ink gun, ink gun must at first be shifted in front portion that then should the surface, progressively leaves ink gun then, arrive up to ink gun till the summit or turning point of curved surface, rear part edge that then should the surface must progressively be shifted to ink gun.
If container moves by curve, container must do or towards or leave the rotation of ink gun, this will depend on the corresponding radius of curvature of moving curve and vessel surface.Usually the radius of curvature of container is littler than the curve, and this just requires aforesaid moving.If yet the radius of curvature of container can make the front edge of container progressively move apart ink gun earlier greater than the radius of curvature of curve, arrive up to ink gun till the top of plane of bending, the lagging dege of container moves then, thereby progressively near ink gun.
During printing, must can regulate from the frequency of the ink droplet of ink gun ejection, thereby the subtle change of linear velocity of the vessel surface of ink gun is passed through in compensation.The ink-jet time also must be adjustable, thereby compensate, because during printing, most of ink gun also is not orthogonal to vessel surface.Yet this modification all drops within professional person's the special knowledge.
Can adopt multiple mode that container is moved with respect to ink gun in a desired manner.For example can use simple servomotor torque constant or a cam mechanism.If the use electrical motor, it will be controlled by the computer program of the shape and size that are exclusively used in container to be printed usually, thereby just can be used for printing different containers by reprogramming simply.Therefore this provable it is more convenient than adopting cam mechanism.
If desired, the present invention can use a sensor to monitor distance between vessel surface and the ink gun at least.Can adopt any right sensors, for example infrared pickoff, laser sensor, sound proximity transducer etc.This sensor is connected with the device that ink gun and/or container are moved mutually, in printing process, or after the container that prints a type changes to the container of another kind of difformity of printing and/or size, regulates the mobile of mobile device in the time of if desired.
During printing, each container preferably is fixed in the admittance seat of belt conveyor or carousel.In the case, can make each container do moving by moving the corresponding seat of admitting with respect to ink gun.Each admits seat to preferably include the device of the container of fixing it, does not relatively move substantially thereby make in printing operation between container and its admittance seat.Usually this anchor fitting contacts this container at least on a position of its top and bottom.Can adopt any suitable fixed form, for example can adopt bevelled retainer to insert container top and make it to fit, and the bottom of container is fixed on the essentially identical bevelled of the profile at this end admit on the seat.The feature of anchor fitting preferably makes admits seat can be used for different size and/or shapes of containers, and use these containers at an easy rate, therefore can adopt little time just can forward another manufacturing line to from a manufacturing line, this just embodies the huge preceence of contemporary commodity production.
According to the complexity of image to be printed and/or the quantity of vessel surface, method of the present invention can adopt one or more ink guns.Each ink gun comprises series of nozzles, and they arrange on the direction of direction perpendicular to the row of manufacturing line or container arrangements to be printed.Printing ink can spray from nozzle under digital control as described in document in a continuous manner or by instruction mode drop by drop.Printing ink preferably drop by drop sprays from nozzle by instruction.
Because vessel surface only simply by each ink gun, will select according to image to be printed by the quantity of nozzle and the width of array thereof.Each ink gun will have 7/mm usually at least.The nozzle of preferably at least 12/mm, they can line up one or more parallel lines, this ink gun will be preferably can container pass through vertically on per inch on printing at least 200 points, preferred value is per inch 360 points.
Preferably adopt multi-grey level to obtain the quality of special quality image and little text type.Preferably use at least 4 gray levels.The example that can reach the ink gun of this printing quality is Xaar Jet 1000 or the Xaar Jet 1000S that is provided by Xaar.
When adopting a plurality of ink guns to print the printing ink of different color, also comprise the printing of black and white printing ink simultaneously, basic is, and they will be positioned to can obtain the picture registration of good color to color on the container after the final printing.Common desired picture registration is: the position error of different color point is 100～400 μ, preferably less than 200 μ, preferably is less than or equal to 70 μ.
Obtain fine and close text type black, good and good image true to nature in order to unite.Method of the present invention can combine with some special printing technologies.For example, in order to reach maximum manoevreability and special quality printing, preferably adopt " Hi-Fi " colored printing of 6～7 kinds of colors of so-called use, this can use bluish-green, scarlet, yellow and black add again following any one: i) green or salmon pink or ii) red, green and blue look.Do the space of having expanded available color like this, can carry out special quality originally with lower one-tenth and decorate, avoid requiring to adopt a large amount of special-purpose colors in order to produce fine and close color in the printing containers image usually.
Need printing on more than the vessel surface of a part, when for example printing on the opposite side at radially facing surfaces part or container, after each container passes through first ink gun, it rotates at least 90 ° again around its longitudinal axis, before vessel surface that the next one is to be printed or sidepiece are presented to another print head.For example, if the opposite side of printing containers, only need make container on ink gun or ink gun group, rotate about 180 ° simply, print second surface part or sidepiece then, container and/or ink gun are moved in the above described manner, are a constant thereby make the distance maintenance between vessel surface and the ink gun substantially.
Any printing ink all can be used for printing, and some printing ink is preferred according to the difference of making material of container to be printed certainly.For example, for those non-adsorbable containers, as plastics, metal and glass container, but preferably use phase change ink, as the printing ink of the solvent-free ink toner of hot melt ink hot melt or radiation-curable, the printing ink that solidifies of UV normally.In the case, if a plurality of ink guns are arranged, at the device that a fusing or cured printing ink preferably are provided behind each ink gun and/or when whole printing work finishes.No matter adopt the printing ink of which kind of type, vessel surface all should have sufficiently high surface energy, and printing ink can be clung.This can be by accomplishing known method in the flame treatment of plastic container and the prior art.
As if the printing ink of radiation-curable preferably requires the printing ink of heat drying, seldom can cause damaging container in their use, and the printing ink that UV solidifies is particularly preferred, because their very easy bonding on the frosting, and durable in use.The use of this printing ink has been described in the prior art of ink-jet technology.
The present invention should be used to print multiple size and/or shapes of containers, and the most suitable is the container that printing has curved surface or non-planar surfaces.Be particularly useful for printing the curved surface that only has on certain meaning or the direction, for example recessed or protruding surface, as not only comprising protruding but also comprising the apparent surface of concave portion, object lesson comprises that the cross section is circular or oval-shaped bottle.
The present invention also is applicable to the container of the various material systems of printing, as cardboard, mill bristol, plastics, glass and metal container.Yet main purpose of the present invention is to be used to print lighter plastic container, and used plastics generally include polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, polyester or the polyvinyl alcohol that is used to wash example, cosmetics, beauty care device and food industry, also are used for printed label.Product in these industry usually requires to improve on the basis of standard in good time, and can respond the variation in market or competitor's activity rapidly, basic demand is to want quick print container, printing process requirement to be applicable to the manufacturing line of different product at an easy rate.The present invention satisfies above-mentioned two requirements, promptly the time require and with similar high-speed of filling speed.
Referring now to accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 is the plan view that the top from printing device of the present invention looks down,
Fig. 2 is the orthogonal view of amplification of the station of Fig. 1, and the container that an embodiment wherein is housed is admitted the mobile device of seat.
Referring to Fig. 1, device 1 comprises the carousels 2 that have a plurality of admittance seats 3, admits seat 3 bottles 4 that are equipped with by a series of ink guns 5.Each admits seat to comprise the anchor fitting (not shown) of the corresponding bottle that is installed on wherein.
Each admits seat to move on carousel, keeps one less to be the distance of constant substantially between bottle surface to be printed and the corresponding ink gun thereby make.For the printing ink of cured printed to the bottle, a UV lamp 6 is housed behind each ink gun, if necessary, another UV lamp 7 is housed, thereby guarantees typographic printing ink complete curing at the ink gun rear of back.As a kind of substitute of UV lamp, can adopt optical fiber that UV light is transmitted from light source far away, save the space thus.
Single bottle 4 from the sorter 9 of traditional type is placed on their corresponding admittances in the seat 3 by belt conveyor 8.When bottle is in belt conveyor 8, can be subjected to other handle, as the processing of lamp treater 10, the effect of processing is to reduce surface tension and promote that printing ink is bonding.In addition, provide one 180 ° the rotation station 11, the opposite side of the container that printed is delivered on the ink gun of back.
After the printing, bottle leaves carousel, and monitors printing quality with video equipment 12.
Now referring to Fig. 2, bottle 21 is fixed on the disk 22 on band inclined-plane, and the stopper 23 on a band inclined-plane is suspended from support 24, the top of inserting bottle.Disk is supported on the carousel 25 and (makes a part is shown), and belt conveyor 25 makes bottle pass through ink gun 26.Below carousel, electrical motor 27 rotates the axle 28 that is attached on the disk, and bottle is rotated in ink gun the place ahead.Electrical motor makes bottle rotate under programming control, and bottle surface to be printed and the distance between the ink gun are remained on below the 2mm usually.
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1. a method that is used for the Production and Packaging system comprises first and second steps, packaging system comprises a ducted body, first step comprises that employing first handling device adds first material on the selected surf zone of packaging system, selected surf zone and ducted body all move with respect to first handling device, and surf zone selected during first step only contacts with first material, the method is characterized in that: second step is included in first step and adopts after finishing second handling device to add second material on selected surf zone, selected surf zone and ducted body all move with respect to second handling device, and during second step, selected surf zone only contacts with second material, and this method is used on continuous line speed.
2. the method for claim 1, wherein this method also comprises one or more extra steps, this additional step is included in after previous step finishes, adopt extra handling device on selected surf zone, to add extra material, selected surf zone and ducted body all move with respect to extra handling device, and selected surf zone only contacts with extra material in extra step.
3. the method for claim 2, wherein extra step is second step then, thereby six kinds of materials can occur adding.
4. the process of claim 1 wherein that first and second materials are printing ink.
5. the process of claim 1 wherein that ducted body is a bottle or a lid of being made by the material that comprises thermoplastic base resin.
6. the process of claim 1 wherein selected surf zone on the surface of label, label is fixed on the supporter of packaging system after adding material.
7. the process of claim 1 wherein that selected surf zone is the integral part outside face of ducted body.
8. the process of claim 1 wherein that selected surf zone covers 30cm at least
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9. the process of claim 1 wherein that handling device is an ink-jet printer.
10. the process of claim 1 wherein that selected surf zone is not a plane.
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