Label Source Capabilities
We provide a full array of printing capabilities, Screen Printing, Flexo, and Vinyl Cutting. The size range of our presses allows us to run both large and small format, for both small and large runs.
We are a full service facility taking your artwork or concept straight through to printing, finishing, and fulfillment. There is no need for you to have to go anywhere else. Whether it's product identification labels, decals, graphic overlays or point of purchase materials, let us handle all of your printing needs start to finish.
Flexography (Flexo)
Flexography (also called simply flexo) is a method of printing most commonly used for pressure sensitive labels on rolls. In the last few years great advances have been made to the quality of flexographic printing presses. Full four color process printing is not only possible but has a quality that rivals the lithographic process.
Vinyl Cutting
We use a series of cost effective clear and white vinyl, some of which have an outdoor life of up to five years. We are able to offer a wide variety of adhesive options that will give you virtually an unlimited number of alternatives for your decals.
Screen-Printing
Screen-printing is more versatile than traditional printing techniques. The surface does not have to be printed under pressure, unlike etching or lithography, and it does not have to be planar. Screen-printing inks can be used to work with a variety of materials, such as wood, paper, glass, metal, and plastic. As a result, screen-printing is used in many different industries, to product labels to circuit board printing.
Screen-printing is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged image using a stencil. A screen is made of a piece of porous, finely woven fabric stretched over a frame of aluminum. Areas of the screen are blocked off with a non-permeable material to form a stencil, which is a negative of the image to be printed; that is the open spaces are where the ink will appear.
The screen is placed atop a substrate and the ink is placed on top of the screen, and a flood bar is used to fill the mesh openings with ink. The operator begins with the flood bar at the rear of the screen and behind a reservoir of ink, then lifts the screen to prevent contact with the substrate and then using a slight amount of downward force pulls the fill bar to the front of the screen. This effectively fills the mesh openings with ink and moves the ink reservoir to the front of the screen. The operator then uses a squeegee (rubber blade) to move the mesh down to the substrate and pushes the squeegee to the rear of the screen. The ink that is in the mesh opening is transferred by capillary action to the substrate in a controlled and prescribed amount, i.e. the wet ink deposit is equal to the thickness of the stencil. As the squeegee moves toward the rear of the screen the tension of the mesh pulls the mesh up away from the substrate leaving the ink upon the substrate surface.