Vanessa Lilie

Bio: Vanessa Lilie is a product manager at Matthews Marking Systems. She brings broad experience across operations project management with a strong focus in quality, product development engineering, New Product Development (NPD) program management, strategic planning, and data governance + workflow/tool-chain implementation.
Posts by Vanessa Lilie
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Smarter Packaging With QR Codes

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5 ways serialized QR codes can lift your product + how to add them to your packaging QR codes are everywhere. Menus, milk cartons, billboards, and even Super Bowl ads have them. In 2020, 70.6 million smartphone users in the U.S. scanned quick response codes, according to Statista, which jumped to 88.9 million by 2022…

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PIJ vs. TIJ

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Inkjet Printing 101: How TIJ and PIJ Stack Up Against Each Other When printing on secondary packaging – think corrugated cartons and cases for shipping multiple finished products to retailers — there are three main types of inkjet print head technologies to consider for best results:  thermal ink jet (TIJ), piezoelectric inkjet (PIJ) and valve-jet.…

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