# Linx Applications — Materials & Substrates

**URL:** https://www.linxglobal.com/en/solutions/applications/

**Source:** Linx Printing Technologies (www.linxglobal.com)

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## Raw Content

### Overview
Linx coding and marking solutions are trusted across a wide range of industries to print different code types directly onto a variety of products and materials — even in challenging production environments such as wet, dusty, or temperature-controlled conditions.

### Materials/Applications Covered

1. **Bottle Coding** — Code directly onto glass or plastic bottles
2. **Can Coding** — Code on metal tins and cans for food, beverage and chemicals
3. **Coated Metal** — Code directly onto coated metal products
4. **Glass** — Code directly onto glass surfaces including curved products and through condensation
5. **Metal** — Code directly onto metal products for food, construction, chemical or automotive parts
6. **Paper and Card** — Print onto paper, coated card and cardboard surfaces with excellent durability
7. **Plastics** — Print on a wide variety of rigid and flexible plastics such as PVC, nylon, OPP, PP
8. **Rubber** — Code on rubber for long lasting product identification
9. **Flexible Plastics** — Mark directly on plastic films even at high speed with great adhesion
10. **Coated Card** — Clear and flexible coding for coated or varnished card
11. **Cartons** — Ensure traceability for marking cartons in dairy, beverage or food applications

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## Factronics Brain Notes

**Relevance:** This page validates that Linx CIJ covers essentially every material a manufacturer might need to code on. This is our "yes we can" ammunition for the sales team.

**For Factronics site:**
- This should inform our industry pages — each industry page should reference the specific materials Linx can code on for that industry
- The material breadth is a competitive advantage vs. laser (which doesn't work on all materials) or TIJ (limited to porous)
- Glass + condensation is a real differentiator for beverage manufacturers with cold fill lines

**Missing from Factronics site currently:** We don't showcase the breadth of materials anywhere. Our Linx pages just say "codes on many surfaces" — we should be specific.