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Baker Cheese Reduces Printing Costs and Downtime with Hitachi CIJ Printers

America’s Leading String Cheese producer adopts Hitachi Marking and Coding Solutions to improve their code date’s look that exceeded customer expectations.

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Summary

Baker Cheese needed to reduce downtime and increase print consistency in order to meet consumer expectations. After two weeks of head-to-head trials, they selected Hitachi RX Series Continuous Inkjet Printers as the clear winner. The result was an immediate improvement in uptime, decreased print costs, and reliable and consistent code dates allowing Baker Cheese to continue as one of America’s favorite string cheese producers.

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About Baker Cheese A Family Tradition of Quality

Located in the heart of cheese country, you’ll find Baker Cheese; a 4th generation cheese producer. Baker Cheese pioneered the production of high-quality string cheese and has been a leading national producer for almost four decades. They take pride in the freshness of their cheese, owing that freshness to an astounding 48-hour farm-to-consumer ready process. This commitment to freshness and quality has been met with many awards and accolades from critics and consumers alike.

Challenges Business Challenges
  • Achieving a daily target of 3 million string cheese sticks daily.
  • Existing coding equipment was very expensive to maintain & couldn't deliver consistent and high-quality prints.
  • Production downtime due to stoppage can prove extremely costly & any new printer must be easy to use (for minimal downtime and efficient operation)
Solutions Solutions
  • Hitachi Continuous Inkjet Printers that seamlessly integrated with Baker Cheese’s intermittent motion production process, functioning within a small print window.
Outcome Outcome
  • Not only did the printers decrease downtime, they practically eliminated it, significantly improving production efficiency.
  • Operational cost savings in printing.
  • Prints high-quality codes/code dates - transforming the look of code dates from average to exceptional, exceeding consumer expectations.
  • Enhanced Baker Cheese’s brand reputation
“Hitachi’s CIJ Printers have been bulletproof, exceeding expectations for our application.”
- Jim Guell,
“We put it through the ringer on our toughest applications, and it was a Slam Dunk”
- Brian Baker,

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From inconsistent markings to consistent, high-quality coding, explore how Hitachi’s advanced CIJ printers optimized Baker Cheese's production line.

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