PFFC - September 2008 - (Page 30) NARROW WEB & LABEL FLEXO PRINTING W RO EL AR LAB D N& DE B WE XPAN ION E DIT E L NARROW WEB & NAR RO W W EB & LABE L Sticks to Flexo By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor Loyal to Mark Andy and the flexo process, Paragon Label has grown far beyond its “sticker” roots to produce high quality wine labels for upscale brands. AB EL J uConverter Infot uParagon Label Co. | 3810 Cypress Dr., Petaluma, CA 94954 | 707-773-4363 | www.paragonlabel.com 30 | SEPTEMBER 2008 ason Grossman, president of Paragon Label Co., laughingly describes his custom wine label converting operation as “a very bizarre label company.” After all, how many label companies allow their employees to bring their dogs to work, give tours to more than 50,000 visitors a year, and are so literally transparent that only a glass partition separates those tours from its 110,000sq-ft production facility? True, most visitors actually are attracted by the allure of Paragon’s parent company, Mrs. Grossman’s Paper Co., which pioneered the decorative sticker industry 30 years ago and shares the converting facility. Still, Paragon’s reliance on ultraviolet flexographic printing technology to meet the demands of the qualityconscious wine industry, traditionally served by offset, does qualify the converter as an atypical label supplier. “Printing wine labels is probably taking flexo to its all-time greatest heights,” suggests Grossman, noting Paragon won the Best of Show Award in the Flexographic Technical Assn.’s 2006 Excellence in Flexography Awards competition. “We’re competing against offset printing all the time. A lot of our competitors offer flexo and waterless offset, but from day one we stuck with flexo. It’s kind of fun to watch flexo quickly eroding that offset market share and hearing some of the offset people discussing how they’re going to go to flexo from now on.” WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM http://www.paragonlabel.com http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM
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