The eyewear industry is an industry covering eyewear manufacturing, sales and dispensing services, and the main products include nearsighted glasses, farsighted glasses, sunglasses, contact lenses and so on. According to the World Vision Report released by the World Health Organization in 2020, the current number of myopic people worldwide is about 2.6 billion and the number of people suffering from presbyopia is about 1.8 billion. With the prominence of vision health problems and the increasing attention to vision health, the eyewear industry has grown significantly in the past decade or so.

Thermal transfer ribbons in the eyeglass industry has two main applications: one is the eyeglass lens degree and serial number identification, and the other is the nameplate information of eyeglass frames. Relying on the continuous expansion of the eyewear retail market, the demand for thermal transfer ribbons in the eyewear industry is also rising, and there is still a huge incremental space.

Todaytec’s solutions for the eyewear industry provide you with various types of ribbons for all identification labels in the industry, meeting the basic requirements of clear printing, not easy to fade, and can print almost all special symbols and small characters, with more scratch and solvent resistant products, better maintain the high recognition and traceability of label information, providing greater convenience, reliability and safety for your products and services. and security.

Applications in the eyewear industry

-Customer type: A well-known lens manufacturer

-Customer use scenario:

Printing method: single-sheet bag drop printing

Print head: Postek flat print head

Print media: eyeglass bags

Print speed: 101mm/s

Print temperature: 13 (print temperature adjustable but the pressure should not be adjusted)

-Customer pain point: The customer uses thermal transfer ribbons to print the outer packaging bag of lenses, which contains barcode and basic product information identification. Currently used TTR products, printing has been indentation, print clarity can not meet customer needs, the overall aesthetics of the package is greatly reduced, the impact on product sales.

-Customer demand: solve the current problem of indentation in various media printing; high definition; better scratch resistance

-Marketing results: After the AM of Todaytec went to the site to contact the actual products and understand the actual situation, they chose several models of Todaytec ribbons for printing test.Finally, TDM201 printed clearly on all kinds of substrates provided by the customer, and no indentation was produced, and the scratch resistance performance could also meet the customer's demand.

Todaytec TTR Recommendation

-Product Name: TDM201

TDM201, as a general wax-resin ribbon. It has the characteristics of lower printing temperature, higher printing blackness, especially its excellent scratch resistance, making it a leader in wax-resin ribbons. It is particularly outstanding under the condition of high printing speed. Since its launch, it has provided solutions for customers in various fields to print efficiently.

-Basic features:

High sensitivity

High clarity

Excellent scratch resistance

Excellent substrate adaptability

-Product certification: ROHS2.0, REACH, ISO9001/14001, MSDS, halogen free

Todaytec TTR can be easily applied to eyeglass lenses and frames, in addition to the conventional identification of prescription, serial number and brand information, but also to meet your personalized needs. Our ribbons deliver high-resolution signage that is not only visible, but also resistant to daily wear and tear and more durable, keeping your signage shining like new.

Todaytec TTR are rigorously tested and verified to ensure the quality of the product offered is impeccable!

Contact us to learn more about our products and to get samples of our thermal transfer ribbons.