Labeling innovation, 1990’s style! Quite recently, I found an article in packaging world magazine covering a new NJM Labeling System. The article was from 2005, but this machine had been developed some years earlier. Way back in 1990, I moved to the United States and was a product manager at New Jersey Machine (Now ProMach’s […]
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Labeling & Coding at Westpack
Next week, starting August 10th, is our first in-person tradeshow since the start of the Covid era. Our Labeling & Coding brands will be exhibiting, along with other ProMach business lines, at Westpack in Anaheim, CA. We’ve been busy for the last few weeks getting everything ready and our exhibits should be delivered to the […]
High-Quality Printing for Gypsum Products
Here in the US, it seems just about the interior of just about every house, apartment, and many other buildings is constructed of a product that has so many different names: drywall, plasterboard, wallboard, sheetrock, gypsum board, buster board, custard board (I’ve never seen this called custard board before, but I saw it on Wikipedia, so it must be right). […]
Need Individual UPC GTIN Barcodes?
Over the years, one question I’m always asked is “how can I get single UPC barcodes, or get them in small quantities?” There hasn’t always been a good answer for this – the choice has been to invest in a GS1 company prefix (confusing to many people and can be expensive), or to buy UPC […]
Pantone Color of the Year – 2021
Well, this is interesting (ok, slightly interesting, maybe), the folks at Pantone announced their Color of 2021 a while ago and it is actually two colors. In this newsworthy development, the Color of 2021 is yellow (Pantone 13-0647 Illuminating) AND grey, (Pantone 17-5104 Ultimate Gray). What do you think? Exciting stuff? According to the Pantone […]