Six-color cranberry can labels get saucy: Ocean Spray Cranberries catches the wave of new packaging being printed using Fort Dearborn Co.'s HiColour proprietary six-color printing process, adding some kick to its whole berry and jellied cranberry sauce labels.(Package manufacturing: six-color cut & stack label printing)

Packaging Digest, December, 2003 by Mohan, Anne Marie

Pioneering shelf stable cranberry sauce in the 1930s, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., Lakeville-Middleboro, MA, has a king history of product and packaging innovation. For the 21st century, modifying its canned sauce packaging for flexibility and cost savings involved the use of a flowering new label-printing technology that yielded a greater than anticipated harvest.

In July, 2003, Ocean Spray began the process of having the labels for its canned cranberry sauce converted from a traditional four-color-process-printed design to one using the Hi-Colour[TM] six-color system. Developed by another industry trailblazer, Fort Dearborn Co., headquartered in Niles, IL, HiColour provides Ocean Spray with the ability to combine its print runs, maximizing; production...

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