A process for coloring post-production cables or coloring cables in an in-line manufacturing process can include coloring a polymer coated conductive cable or wire using a colorant solution. In one example, the wire can be passed through a trough, bath or spray of the colorant solution. In one example, the colorant can have a transparent characteristic to it in order to allow the printing on the cable to show through the colorant applied to the cable.

It is disclosed a power cable comprising at least one conductor and a hollow tube at least partially filled with a traceable material. The traceable material comprises a tracer associated with a uniquely identifiable code and is in a liquid or gel form. The tracer may comprise one or more of: coded synthetic DNA particles, a fingerprint of one or more trace materials, microdots containing a code written thereon. The tracer may also comprise radio-frequency identification, RFID, tags.

An apparatus for controlling the printing on wire or cable. The apparatus including a processor, a bus connected to the processor, a user input connected to the bus, a display screen connected to the user input and the bus, a first storage system connected to the bus, data stored in the first storage system and displayable on the display screen, wherein the data includes manufacturing and print information, a printer connected to the bus, wherein the printer prints the data on the wire or cable, a communication device connected to the bus, and an identification device connected to the bus, wherein identification device receives information from a user.

It is disclosed a power cable comprising at least one conductor and a hollow tube at least partially filled with a traceable material. The traceable material comprises a tracer associated with a uniquely identifiable code and is in a liquid or gel form. The tracer may comprise one or more of: coded synthetic DNA particles, a fingerprint of one or more trace materials, microdots containing a code written thereon. The tracer may also comprise radio-frequency identification, RFID, tags.

An apparatus for controlling the printing on wire or cable. The apparatus including a processor, a bus connected to the processor, a user input connected to the bus, a display screen connected to the user input and the bus, a first storage system connected to the bus, data stored in the first storage system and displayable on the display screen, wherein the data includes manufacturing and print information, a printer connected to the bus, wherein the printer prints the data on the wire or cable, a communication device connected to the bus, and an identification device connected to the bus, wherein identification device receives information from a user.

An electric wire printing device 10 according to the present invention includes an inkjet head 30 injecting ink to perform printing on an electric wire 5; a transportation device 20 transporting the electric wire 5; and a drying device 40 provided downstream, in a transportation direction of the electric wire 5, with respect to the inkjet head 30, the drying device 40 blowing air toward a printed portion on the electric wire 5.

A device for a circumferentially closed arrangement of a printed piece of tubing around a prolate object includes: a guide passage for conveying the piece of tubing along a longitudinal direction thereof and to open piece of tubing during a conveying movement under an effect of flexing forces; and at least one sensor aligned transversely to the longitudinal direction, the at least one sensor detecting an end of the piece of tubing, which end is trailing during the conveying movement, by exposing the at least one sensor, and detecting the prolate object introduced into the piece of tubing, which is opened, along the longitudinal direction against the conveying movement at an exiting of a trailing end by blocking the at least one sensor.

Systems and methods are provided for wire processing. In certain examples, a wire processing system may be disclosed. The wire processing system may include a wire transport, a processing station that may provide wire to the wire transport, a processing station that may move an electrical component threaded onto the wire, and a processing station that may move the electrical component to a position on the wire for further processing.

Systems and methods to apply an on-demand color scheme to a cable are described. The systems and methods include the application of a plurality of colored coating fluids to an outer cable layer.

A device for insertion of a prolate object into a piece of tubing opened at least at an end for marking the prolate object includes: a guide corridor for conveying the piece of tubing along a longitudinal direction of the guide corridor, a width of the guide corridor in a transverse direction transverse to the longitudinal direction being controllable as a function of a diameter of the piece of tubing; and a support surface arranged downstream of the guide corridor in a conveying movement at least one position in the longitudinal direction, which support surface aligns the prolate object during insertion into the opened piece of tubing. The support surface includes at least two partial surfaces arranged one behind another in the longitudinal direction and overlapping in the transverse direction for supporting the prolate object during insertion.