METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKAGING PRODUCTS WITH DIFFERENT MARKINGS

摘要

A method of and apparatus for producing a mixed batch of consumer products without the use of a mechanical mixer to carry out the mixing. An image sequencing means is provided which sequences images to be printed by a digitally-controlled printhead. Varying images are placed on consumer products or parts thereof - e.g. cigarette cards - as those products or parts of products pass under the printhead at a point in the production line. The consumer products, once assembled, are packaged directly from the production line to form mixed batches of product - without an additional mixing step.