How Fast Is an Egg Printer (Eggs per Hour)?

An egg printer’s speed depends on how many heads it has. A six-head tray machine codes a full 30-egg tray in one pass at 20 trays per minute, which is about 36,000 eggs an hour, while a single head prints one egg at a time and suits low-volume work.

• Handheld: a few hundred to a few thousand eggs/hour.
• Single-head conveyor: one egg at a time, so it suits low-volume or mixed-size runs rather than a packing line.
• 6-head automatic: about 36,000 eggs/hour on 30-egg trays, or 20 trays per minute.

At 20 trays per minute a six-head unit codes 600 eggs a minute, which works out to 36,000 eggs/hour: the same speed expressed two ways, so always check which unit a supplier is quoting before comparing machines.