The industrial product labelingis now an essential part of the supply chain. Legal requirements (such as Expiration date or batch number) must be met, better logistics and continuous digitization with barcodes and QR codes ensure more efficient processes, and better customer information is also becoming increasingly important. The only technology that has proven universally applicable on a wide variety of substrates, is the printing with ink, more precisely the Thermal inkjet technology (TIJ) from Hewlett Packard. Thanks to its contactless printing, it enables extremely high throughput rates while remaining cost-effective. It delivers razor-sharp prints that cannot be better achieved with other marking technologies and coding solutions.

The compact design of hand printers (handheld mobile printers) and modular stationary labeling systems were only made possible by TIJ technology. The print head is combined with the ink supply in a single housing. The print head is controlled via electronic contacts on the cartridge. The control electronics are thus outsourced and can therefore be minimal. hand printers Today, it typically consists of a housing with a "pistol grip" and an integrated touchscreen. The screen not only controls the printing process but also creates and manages print templates. Almost all devices today allow combinations of text, dates, serial numbers, barcodes, QR codes, and even monochrome graphics or data matrix codes.