Egg carton printing and egg printing is coming to New Zealand,    The solution is a Hitachi printer.

As mentioned  34 times in the below report, egg traceability could be on its way, it would certainly solve quite a few issues that could arise.
While the initial financial outlay seems like a pain for the egg producer, an outbreak of an egg related disease that may come from one production flock/ paddock/ bay/ shed/ farm,  could be could be isolated if the culprit egg was traceable in the first place, ie had a batch ID code printed on it.
The batch code can also be recorded against the carton that it has been stored in using OCR technology. 
The current situation would probably see one of our islands being shut down for a week or two for a major egg related disease, if found to be at fault.


Southern Technology Ltd is gearing up, ready for the STE campaign  (Safe Traceable Eggs ).   Utilising our ST inks food grade safe ink, along with a Hitachi RX series inkjet printer.

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Hitachi RX egg Moba printing

Published on 19 Sep 2014
Giroux’s Poultry Farm needed to reduce downtime, operating costs, carton waste, and rejection rates associated with coding equipment. After reviewing five competetive manufacturer’s printers they chose Hitachi’s distributor Van Alstine to supply and install 28 Hitachi RX-Series Continuous Ink Jet Printers. The result was an immediate improvement in uptime, a 43% reduction in operating costs, and elimination of print