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The Marktec Advantage
The equipment we sell uses leading edge technology
which is made by industry leaders in those technology fields. This
means you are purchasing reliability and longevity as well as a marking
system. Even the best equipment needs service periodically.
Factory Trained and Certified Technicians – Marktec
invests heavily in technical repair training of our technicians for the
equipment we sell and service. Manufacturers’ introduce new makes and
models every 12 – 24 months. This requires our technicians to attend
multiple factory schools for new equipment service training and advance
training such as “engine repair” schools. A new technician will cost
Marktec as much as $20,000. in training expenses and tuition during the
first year and then at least half that cost for continuing and upgrade
training and each year thereafter. We “invest” in training to enable
our technicians to provide you with top performance (without excuses),
when your line is down and you need to get it back up and running now.
Technical Services - Marktec
provides you with a full range of services to support the equipment we
sell and service. These services include:
Line Inspections before you buy -
of your conveyor lines and packaging equipment, where you want to code
or label. We often discover issues during these inspections that can be
dealt with in the planning and budgeting stage. This eliminates
installation problems and issues later on that can delay installations
or prevent good coding and labeling from occurring. Issues often
involve conveyor modifications, equipment mounting, product and case
guidance, requirements unique to barcode printing and barcode scanning,
and other criteria.
In-plant Equipment Demonstrations
– our company philosophy for 26 years has been: “try before you buy”.
Each year after we pre-qualify an application, we conduct in-plant,
on-line demonstrations of equipment you are interested in purchasing,
to enable you to learn more about a particular technology and how it
fits with your particular needs. In-plant demonstrations provide you
with valuable information and insight on specifically how a piece of
equipment operates and you can observe the end result quality and
placement of printing and labeling onto your products and cases, in
your plant, on your production line, and under your production
environment. This lets your mechanics ask questions about maintenance
requirements, and understand equipment operation, which enables
mechanics to give management important feedback comparing our equipment
performance and features with competitive equipment you may be
evaluating. It also helps you determine operating supply costs because
we are printing your exact messages onto your products, at your line
speeds, and product volumes. From this information we can calculate
approximate supply usages and costs. Another benefit you derive from
in-plant demonstrations is that it lets you determine what a particular
piece of equipment cannot do.
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Expert Installation -
onto your conveyor lines; installation inside packaging equipment such
as tray formers; “hand shake” assistance when interfacing with a PLC or
PC based communications devices; and design assistance when you need to
make customized bracketry. We can network multiple inkjet printers or
label printers together.
We install during normal Marktec business hours,
evenings, early AM hours before lines start up, and on weekends. After
hour and weekend installation adds to cost but - it is available when
you need it and it can eliminate production downtime!
Comprehensive
Training – Once your equipment is installed we train
your operators and mechanics on message creation, creating message
databases, message back-up, operator maintenance, mechanic maintenance,
and what you need to call us to do or to obtain advice on. We also
train new operators and mechanics when you hire them. Labeling systems
have their own message creation software which we install on your PC
and train your personnel on.
Field Service - for
your Inkjet printing and labeling equipment. Our field services
include: responding 1to equipment repair needs, bring equipment to get
you going instantly, providing rental equipment for repairs that will
take longer, and bringing parts to do many repairs on-site after we
arrive. We can provide service during normal Marktec business hours,
evenings, early AM hours before lines start up, and on weekends. After
hour and weekend service does add to cost but - it is available when
you need it which can eliminate production line downtime!
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Free
Software Upgrades – Many of
the leading edge technology manufactures whose products we sell, offer
free software upgrades periodically for their operating systems. When
they become available, we evaluate what the upgrades do, then we
contact or customers and offer to install a particular upgrade into
their equipment for free, during our next service visit to them.
Sometimes this can be accomplished by phone and the internet in which
case we offer assistance this way.
Barcode Verification Service – We
offer free scanning of any barcode you are printing from our equipment,
ink, labels, and ribbons. We can advise you if it scanned, if it meets
a particular barcode industry specification, and what grade it
received. Just send it in and we will do the rest at no charge.
PM and Service Contracts – Service
Contracts are available for customers with multiple equipment,
customers who desire scheduled PM services, and customers who may
desire to utilize our technical services instead of utilizing their own
mechanics, due to shortages of customer technical personnel. We can
design almost any type and frequency of service you desire. We can
offer flat rate contracts, guaranteed labor hours and rates per trip at
affordable pricing.
Bench Repairs at Marktec – save
you time and money. We repair printers, printheads, and modular
components all the time, usually in one day. We provide a quote for
your repair authorization, as standard procedure.
Toll Free Telephone Support
(800-627-5832 )-Our field service technicians are
frequently at customer sites. We almost always have one technician
available at Marktec to support customers by phone during normal
Marktec business hours and days. When you have a problem you don’t have
to guess, just call us toll free for the answer to your problem. After
normal business hour telephone support is available and is chargeable
by the hour or by contract.
Parts in Stock and Overnight
Availability - We keep
thousands of dollars of parts in stock and our suppliers maintain part
volumes that enable you to receive most parts overnight.
Marktec Customer Service Department -
is here to support you as well. We can provide part numbers, tell you
if we have a part in stock, and take orders for parts and supplies –
all with a smile.
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