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Thermal Ribbons & Foils in Ludhiana
Thermal Ribbons & Foils supplied into Ludhiana, alongside the ranges that make up the bulk of our work there.
Thermal Ribbons & Foils for Ludhiana
Demand in Ludhiana is built on hosiery and knitwear, bicycles and bicycle parts, auto components, agricultural implements and hand tools. Engineering draws on this range, though it sits alongside rather than ahead of the lines listed below. Thermal Ribbons & Foils are quoted per job for Ludhiana rather than against a price break, so a smaller run is normal work there.
What decides the specification
With thermal ribbons & foils the question is always wax, wax-resin or resin matched to the facestock and the abrasion the print will see. Ludhiana conditions are manageable. What matters more there is coating weight: a cheap roll fades inside a year, and in Ludhiana a receipt is a tax document.
On woven and satin care labels the ribbon has to be a resin grade — wax will not anchor to the weave and will wash out on the first cycle, which is exactly when the label is needed most.
When thermal ribbons & foils are ordered from Ludhiana they come job by job, often a handful of plates for one machine build, the same way the rest of that trade buys. What already moves from our floor to Ludhiana is woven-look care labels and carton and shipper labels, so a thermal ribbons & foils enquiry from Ludhiana is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. It goes out by road — 320 km — and a temperate destination is what the coating and the core have to be specified against for Ludhiana.
In this range
Thermal transfer ribbons and hot stamping foils — 3 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Ludhiana
Thermal Ribbons & Foils elsewhere
All Ludhiana ranges
Questions
Thermal Ribbons & Foils in Ludhiana — questions we are asked
Do you supply thermal ribbons & foils in Ludhiana?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Road, 320 km — 1 to 2 working days.
What do Ludhiana customers use thermal ribbons & foils for?
Engineering mainly. Woven-look care labels, carton and shipper labels, part and warranty labels, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
What is the lead time for thermal ribbons & foils to Ludhiana?
Road, 320 km — 1 to 2 working days. On top of that allow for proofing: thermal ribbons & foils artwork for Ludhiana is approved digitally before any plate or die is cut, and on a repeat Ludhiana order that step drops away because the die is already on file.
How do Ludhiana buyers usually order thermal ribbons & foils?
Job by job, often a handful of plates at a time for one machine build — that is the pattern across most of our Ludhiana work in this range. Tell us the quantity and the reorder interval and we will quote the die and the material once, then hold both on file for Ludhiana repeats.
Tell us what it has to stick to
Send the pack, the quantity and the market it ships to. We come back with a specification, a price and a lead time.