Excellence Awards : Photo Finish

The label required the use of all the printing units in the Sanjo press. A flexo unit laid down a cream tint and was followed by the six offset colors. "The four-color process image and the shading of the embossed area was done with stochastic screens," notes Sturgis. "Next, we hot stamped gold foil, applied a spot gloss silkscreen to the four-color process image, brass die-embossed the border and filigree, and applied an overall aqueous coating to scuff protect the label. Our client was very pleased that we could accomplish all this in one pass on the press."