Bizerba Se & Co. Kg

Bizerba Gmbh & Co. Kg

Mafell Ag

Helmut Pfau

Sebastian Ruff

Markus Uber

Urs-Michael Schaudt

Armin Gaiser

Gerd Kammerer

Jochen Mueller

Martina Frick

Johannes Hirneise

Horst Zimmermann

Urs-Michael Dr Schaudt

Jochen Müller

Heinz Eppler

Mark Naschke

Oliver HÄHNLE

Michael Streib

A method determines wearing of a printing apparatus. The method includes: controlling a motor of a label paper driving mechanism of the printing apparatus using motor control data; determining a label start indicator; determining a label end indicator; determining a label length indicator corresponding to a length covered by a rotation of the label paper driving mechanism of an unweared printing apparatus between the label start indicator and the label end indicator based on the motor control data; storing the label length indicator; and determining a wearing indicator of the printing apparatus based on stored label length indicators, including the label length indicator.

Method for determining wearing of a printing apparatus and printing apparatus

In an embodiment, the present invention provides a weighing and labeling conveyor for labeling articles, the articles including a first application point at a same point on the article, the conveyor including: a weighing conveyor for determining the weight of the articles; a transport apparatus for transporting the articles; and a labeling system for labeling the articles, the labeling system including three labelers, each labeler including an applicator, each applicator being suitable for applying a label to the first application point on an article while the article is being transported on the transport apparatus. Of the three labelers, during normal operation two labelers are in an active operating state and one labeler is in a passive operating state. During normal operation, the two labelers that are in the active operating state alternately label the first application point of successive articles.

Weighing and labeling conveyor having alternating printer use

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