New roll-fed presses at Fort Dearborn's Flextech operation flexo-print in up to 9 colors redesigned polymeric labels for Wal-Mart's Clear American beverages bottled by Cott Corp. (Fort Dearborn Co.)

Packaging Digest, April, 1998 by Lingle, Rick

Digital press produces prototype labels prior to press run.

Last Fall, the, design arm of Cott Corp., Toronto, Canada, enlisted the help of Fort Dearborn Co., Niles, Ill., for a major project that involved an early '98 relaunch for private label beverages bottled for Wal-Mart. Central to the relaunch were redesigned labels, converted by three Fort Dearborn divisions in Elk Grove Village, Ill., using the latest computerized imaging, digital and flexographic printing technologies.

In fact, the digital press used by Fort Dearborn Digital was less than five months old, while the eldest of the two flexographic presses used by the Flextech Div. was but 10 months old. Both are veterans compared to the newer of the two flexo presses used in the Cott project: it...

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