Wood Flooring Customer Information

A well-known specialist building products manufacturer has successfully employed an  ATD LC2 inkjet printer to ensure its products are correctly installed on site.

The company’s core activities are acoustic flooring systems and external cladding products.

In the acoustic flooring division they develop, patent and manufacture a range of market leading acoustic flooring products for use in apartment blocks to prevent noise transmission.

They also provide a fabrication service, cutting the panels to the correct size prior to installation

The company contacted ATD in late 2004 with a problem regarding one of their flooring products. Customers were incorrectly installing the flooring systems despite being given detailed fixing instructions in a leaflet .To solve the problem the company decided to print a warning message directly onto the product which was being inappropriately used.

ATD demonstrated an LC2 printer that could be easily fixed on line in the production process.

The printhead is mounted in a robust cradle with a deflector plate for protection.

Printing is activated by a photocell as the product passes the printer on the assembly line. 

The company has complete control over the content and size of the messages, which are easily entered through the floor mounted controller.

After a successful free trial the company purchased the unit and ATD engineers quickly sourced and installed it on the line.

The company comments -

“We have been delighted by the quality of the solution and have experienced no teething problems since installation”.

Feedback from customers has been excellent and the company is now considering extending the principle to other products in their range.