Capabilities on PPO Printed Packaging Options

Flexible packaging

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Formats

Stand-up pouches. Rollstock. Sachets. Printed and converted to your spec rather than pulled from a stock range.

The whole job runs here

Prepress checks your files and confirms the dieline. The job prints on press against your approved color proof. UV coating goes on where the job calls for it. Then it is slit, pouched, or die-cut into the finished format and packed to meet your production date.

Five stages, one building. Nothing sits in another company’s queue waiting for a slot, which is why the date PPO gives you is a date and not an estimate.

Pressure-sensitive labels

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Formats

Roll labels and sheet labels, printed to spec and die-cut to your shape. Applied by hand or off an applicator, the roll is wound and cored to suit the line it runs on.

Color that holds run to run

A label that drifts between runs puts two versions of your brand on the same shelf. Every run prints against the color proof you approved, and the standard holds across formats, not just from proof to press.

Lidding films

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Formats

Peelable lidding film for cups, bowls, and trays. Printed and supplied on the roll, converted to the width and wind your sealing line runs.

Sealing is a spec, not a preference

Lidding is the one format where the packaging and the filling line have to be specified together. The container material, the seal geometry, and the line speed all decide what the film has to be.

Send the container spec and the line it seals on. PPO will confirm what runs against it before quoting rather than after.

Bottled water labels

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Formats

Roll labels for single-serve and multipack bottles, wound and cored to the applicator on your line. Printed to spec and die-cut to your shape rather than pulled from a stock range.

The label spends its life wet

A water label is filled cold, stored cold, and handled with wet hands. What survives that is the face stock and the adhesive, not the print.

So the stock is specified against the conditions rather than assumed. Send the fill temperature, how the product is stored, and the applicator the line runs, and PPO confirms what holds before quoting instead of after.

Food packaging labels

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Formats

Roll and sheet labels for retail food packaging. Trays, tubs, jars, bags, and cases. Printed to spec and die-cut to your shape.

Storage is part of the spec

Ambient, refrigerated, and frozen are three different jobs. The face stock and the adhesive change with each of them, and so does what happens to a label three months in.

Tell PPO where the product is stored and what the label is applied to. The stock gets confirmed against those conditions before the quote goes out.

Industrial labels

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Formats

Roll labels for print-and-apply lines and for hand application, wound and cored to the equipment that runs them. Product labels, case and pallet labels, and compliance panels.

Stocks your own line can print

Direct thermal and thermal transfer stocks run here, printed with your fixed artwork and shipped blank where the variable part is added on your floor. What your printer puts down last still has to sit on a stock that takes it, so the face is specified for the equipment rather than left to chance.

Shrink sleeves

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The whole container is the label

A shrink sleeve is a printed film tube. It goes over the container and is shrunk with heat until it takes the container’s shape: shoulders, curves, and waist.

A pressure-sensitive label covers a panel. A sleeve goes all the way around the pack and follows its contours, which is why it is the format for shapes a flat label cannot follow.

What it is used for

Contoured bottles and jars that a flat label wrinkles on. Full-body graphics on beverages, household products, and personal care, where the pack itself is the shelf display.

UV coating & finishing

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Finishes

Gloss UV. Matte UV. Spot UV. Foil.

UV coating is a finish. It decides how the printed surface reads on shelf and how it stands up to being handled between the plant and the store.

Choosing one

Gloss raises contrast and saturation, which is why product photography usually sits under it. Matte lowers glare under retail lighting and reads quieter at the same print density. Spot UV puts gloss on one element against a matte field, so a logo or a single panel carries the shine and the rest does not.

Variable data printing

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No two labels the same

Variable data printing changes part of the artwork on every impression as the run goes through the press. The design holds; a field inside it is different each time. A serial number, a lot code, a date, a name, a barcode or QR that resolves to one unit rather than to one SKU.

In every other respect it is an ordinary label run. The difference is that the file PPO prints from carries a list as well as artwork.