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US 12,179,473 B2Granted
System and method for producing a medicinal packaging
AssigneeFresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH
InventorsThomas Brückner, Benjamin Fritz, Gerald Wegner, Stefan Faber, Alexander Stojmanovski, Marko Krenzlin
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system and a method for manufacturing a medical package, in particular a foil bag made of plastic. A print image with variable information comprising blank spaces is first applied by means of a thermal transfer printer. The blank spaces are filled by means of a hot stamp printing process.
Claims17
A system for manufacturing a medical package, the system comprising:
- a first printer comprising a digitally controlled thermal print head comprising a plurality of heating elements, the plurality of heating elements being actuated via a control device and configured to generate a variable print image on a surface of the medical package;
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- a hot stamp printer arranged downstream of the first printer, the hot stamp printer comprising a printing plate defining a print relief with a flat section, wherein the flat section is dimensioned and arranged to at least partially overlap with the variable print image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.