LABELS

Comprehensive, Customized Labeling Services

Our Label Division takes pride in producing quality labels that influence your customers' decision to buy. Through our experience working with boutiques as well as mass brands, we understand the complexity and requirements of customized pressure sensitive and cut & stack labels. We provide full-service capabilities and choices that allow customers to pick what is best for their creative idea, while also meeting their production expectations. Not only are we well-known in the wine and spirits industry, but we extend our portfolio to specialty beverages and food industries that aim for the same quality that wine labels demand.

Our customers can rely on our expertise at every step of the process. We offer comprehensive technical solutions and technical services support to help our partners succeed.

Quality & Process Control

More Than Meets the Eye

We believe quality is the key to achieving complete customer satisfaction. This entails careful planning and engineering design, as well as product and process understanding and control. We combine internal and external customer inputs with lean principles and statistical methods to define our process controls and identify opportunities to create a refined label product. From monitoring the entire wine label printing process to testing the durability of our adhesive and everything in between, we focus on the details.

Incoming Inspection

• Sheet paper: curl, moisture, size, color
• Pressure-sensitive paper: release value

In-process and Final QC verifications

• CPC 24-color scanner on press to provide feedback to operator for color correction (ΔE, % within tolerance, density, dot gain)
• On-press color verifications using Xrite spectrodensitometers
• Stratix UPC code scanners / analyzers
• Registration: print-to-print, print-to-cut, print-to-emboss, print-to-hot foil stamp
• PS label position on web
• Scuff tests, tape test, bottle-impact test, ice bucket test
• InfinityQS statistical process control (SPC) in place to capture process control data