Consumables-Substrates - Paper

TLMI again shows how special it is—this year in a big way. At the annual TLMI Label Awards contest, Peace & Harmony ruled as Best of Show, thanks to superior workmanship by the folks at McDowell Label & Screen Printing.

Mohawk has introduced 68 new synthetic products specifically engineered for dry toner presses. Mohawk's digital substrate line expansion brings the total number of specialty substrates to over 120—making its digital portfolio one of the broadest and most extensive available for HP Indigo and dry toner use.

For his on-going and significant contributions to TLMI and the tag and label industry as a whole, Scott Pillsbury, president of Portland, Ore.-based Rose City Label Company, has been selected as packagePRINTING's 2012 TLMI Converter of the Year. "I believe my greatest career milestone to date was leading our company back to a positive, profitable position after feeling the effects of the recession in 2008," he notes.

The need for a label of some kind, intrinsic to the product packaging or applied to it, will not go away. However, there are certainly tectonic shifts in packaging buyers' preferences. Such change, however, is the sign of a dynamic, healthy industry that is not only accepting, but welcoming evolution.

Digital “in-the-round” (ITR) imaging is steadily opening up attractive opportunities for printers, converters, and end users. Advances in flexo sleeve technology are yielding opportunities in markets traditionally dominated by other processes.

Ontario-based Labelad has proved to its customers time and time again that it can deliver a high-quality flexographic product. Going forward, the company plans to widen its product offering in pressure sensitive and flexible packaging products.

From a brand owner's perspective, grabbing the consumer's attention with its product is the greatest challenge when competing against so many choices on the shelves. ASL Print FX helps brand owners do just that.

For those of you whose favorite shopping venue is a candy store, Labelexpo Americas might have been able to satisfy your craving—albeit, at a slightly higher price tag. When I shop at my favorite store (Hershey's Chocolate World in Hershey, Pa.), I tend to fill up my basket with one of everything and then two or three of the treats I really like.

The Label Printers, with two facilities in Aurora, Ill., manufactures and distributes custom labels, tags, and packaging solutions to thousands of customers in 25 countries around the world. Technologies include full-color offset digital, UV inkjet and ion deposition inline variable imaging, flexography, letterpress, UV rotary letterpress, and hot stamp.

Equipment, software and service purchases by U.S. packaging printers, including Dion Label.