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FrenchLabel Options Kit
Receive a variety of innovation options available to support your packaging related innovation efforts. The kit also contains various label samples highlighting innovative inks, coatings and substrate examples.
Prepress
From Design to Print
Prepress proofs are a key part of the label production process. Fort Dearborn offers professional, in-house prepress services and has partnerships with leading prepress houses to provide customers with seamless prepress capabilities.
Fort Dearborn’s prepress services encompass:
Design
The creation of label artwork from a sample or new design, including colors, layers, images, and nutritional graphics.
Platemaking
In-house platemaking capabilities for litho printing and some flexo platemaking capabilities. We maintain partnerships with the leading prepress houses for additional flexo plate and gravure cylinder engraving.
Color Corrections
Adjusting, manipulating, or changing a color image (hue, color balance, contrast, saturation, etc.).
Preflight
Verification and final check to ensure files are print-ready according to print specifications.
Copy Revisions / Line Extensions
Changes to customer-supplied files, including copy revisions, logos, colors, nutritional information, UPC code placement, and setting.
File Preparation
Prepping files to be print-ready, including trapping, setting overprints, and assembling final color-retouched images.
Proofing
An Epson color contract proof is submitted for approval before printing. For litho labels, a proof can also be provided on metallized and synthetic substrates.
Online Graphics Approval
Our SMART (Systems Management and Retrieval Technology) tool is a web-based system for managing the front-end prepress process of print jobs.
Get acquainted with the Fort Dearborn prepress advantage.
Our company-wide total color management system ensures color accuracy and consistency from design to print.