PFFC - November 2007 - (Page 23) TLMI AWARDS Desert Train Collotype Labels Intl. Holdings, Adelaide, Australia, garners six first-place awards, including The Ghan wine label. Entered in the category of Wine & Spirits–Offset (color process–nonprime), the label is printed UV web offset with four-color process plus one spot orange and features silk screen high-build gloss. It’s run on coated stock from UPM Raflatac at approximately 100 fpm in a single pass. Other suppliers include XSYS Print Solutions, Kodak, Stork, and RotoMetrics. A big winner with eight first-place awards is McDowell Label & Screen Printing, Plano, TX. The company also wins an Innovator Award for its Back in Blaque label, entered in the category of Roll to Roll—Line & Screen (tone–prime). McDowell reports the brand owner “challenged us to help him create a sleeve that was ‘outta sight,’” including foil stamping the silver (zipper and medallion) and then printing, in register, a multidimensional effect for both the product name and the zipper and medallion that would shrink with the ink and film. This tanning product label is printed with DuPont plates using high-definition UV flexo inks from Water Ink Technologies. Innovator Award Innovator Award Schreiner Group GmbH, Oberschleissheim, Germany, earns an Innovator Award for the double-sided Plastoclear Label with integrated microchip, which was entered in the Tags– Industrial and/or Systems category. The label is used for event admission through electronic gates and also can serve as a token for coat checks and in prize drawings as well as a means of payment. In addition to providing proof of bearer’s identification, the label must be tamper-proof and counterfeit-proof, the converter reports. It is letterpress printed; FLEXcon is the film supplier. Balancing Act Metropolis Label, Napa, CA, earns two first-place awards. One of the winners is a Capolan wine label, entered in the category of Wine & Spirits–Offset (color process–prime). The converter reports very difficult color balance challenges. The label features UV waterless offset printing, flexo printing, foil stamping and embossing, plus die-cutting. UPM Raflatac supplies the label stock. Picture Perfect Dow Industries, Wilmington, MA, uses an HP digital press to produce the Yankee Candle Pillar label, entered in the Digital Printing–Household Goods category. The combination of digital printing on a unique vellum substrate and the matte varnish yields exactly the look the customer desired, Dow says, and earns the company one of two first-place awards. RotoMetrics is the die supplier. WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM NOVEMBER 2007 | 23 http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM
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