Crown Beverage Packaging North America’s new 14,000-sq.-ft. graphics design studio serves the entire U.S. and Canada, offering can design and consulting services and providing rapid proofs made on a digital system to preview art and produce printing plates for all U.S. and Canadian customers.
How fast is rapid? On a recent tour of the new facility, with a FE logo in hand, the staff took my picture, and within an hour or so, there it was: my mug-shot and the FE logo on a sampler can, rendered in perfect color fidelity from the digital can proofer. The same file could then be color separated into six plates, ready for printing large quantities. I don’t think that particular picture will appear on someone’s canning line any time soon, but it was proof of how fast this operation can deliver a proof on an actual aluminum can.