Notes for specifying a label feeder
Written for the questions that come up before a label feeder is specified. Each one starts with the answer, then the reasoning, then the detail.
- How to choose a label feeder model — the two inputs that decide it: the placement machine, and the widest label you have to place.
- Wiring a label feeder into a placement machine — the yellow and green wires, standalone mode, and the power supply figure that gets misread.
- Forward push stripping or retract stripping — which way the adhesive has to face, and how label length decides between the two bodies.
- What a 200 mm reel diameter means for changeover — why labels per reel is a property of your label, not of the feeder, and how to work it out.
- Putting a label feeder on a line that has no room — the mini body’s dimensions and weight against the standard body, and when it is the wrong choice.
- Sheet label feeder or reel label feeder — when material on roll is the wrong answer.
- Inline labeling or an offline labeling station — what changes on the line, and what does not.