Quality & Process Control

More Than Meets the Eyes

We believe that 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. 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

In-house Ink Lab

• Custom color matching to customer's requirements
• Color held to <0.5Δ e
• On-site ink technicians, 24-7