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The company started looking at Hexachrome in the late 1990s, eventually becoming the first label printer in North America to become Hex-certified in 2002. “We worked with Pantone and our ink supplier, Sun Chemical, to develop ink densities and L.A.B. readings,” Norris reports.

Norris cites market pressure from China as among the factors that first prompted Labelad to explore the advantages of Hexachrome. Now, he says, “We can eliminate time- and labor-intensive 8-, 10- and 12-color makeready/washups just by swapping out the plates. The savings in makeready and job changeover can be substantial.”