In the last blog, we talked about the trial and error involved with distortion. Like color matching, it can make for a more difficult job. In this second part, let’s touch on complex white plates in packaging production jobs. Think of a silver shaving cream can – the silver you see is actually metalized film. [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Difficult packaging print jobs part 2: Complex white plates.
Posted in Digital Printing, tagged Brand Packaging, CL&D Digital, custom packaging, digital package printing, digital solutions, packaging concepting, packaging materials, printing materials, sample packaging on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Difficult packaging print jobs part I: Distortion.
Posted in Digital Printing, tagged Brand Packaging, CL&D Digital, custom packaging, digital experts, digital package printing, digital solutions, packaging concepting, packaging materials, sample packaging on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the print world, besides intricate color matching, what constitutes a more difficult job over a standard one? In this two-part blog, we’ll talk about two of the most challenging issues that can come up in a packaging production job: distortion and complex white plates. A great example of a distortion challenge is a shrink [...]
Beating the sales drum (again).
Posted in Systems/Processes, tagged CL&D Digital, custom packaging, digital experts, digital package printing, digital solutions, prospecting, sales on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How do you ensure that business you’ve earned keeps coming back, “re-drumming up” business, so to speak? Well anyone in sales will tell you it’s much harder to land a new customer than to get repeat business, but what if a client has been quiet for a while? I recently saw the term “respectful persistence” [...]
The handy work of handwork.
Posted in Digital Printing, Systems/Processes, tagged Brand Packaging, CL&D Digital, custom packaging, digital experts, digital package printing, digital solutions, packaging handwork, packaging materials, sample packaging on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Once the sample packaging rolls across our presses, it’s up to the handwork department to assemble and put the finishing touches on it. This is all done by hand, since the quantities are small and our clients can’t justify expensive automation they use for full production. This manual labor is supported by small, versatile equipment [...]
The ins and outs of shipping.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While many of our projects require shipping a small quantity of samples to one location, CL&D Digital’s shipping team is meeting the growing demand of drop shipping to multiple locations. A supply chain management technique, drop shipping by standard definition means a retailer doesn’t keep products in stock, but instead gives customer orders and shipping [...]
