LL Featured in New Video from HP

In late March several people from HP came by our facility to do some filming. They wanted to create a promotional video featuring the HP-Indigo WS4500 digital label printing presses. We were very pleased with the results, and it really focuses far more on Lightning Labels than it does on HP. If you have a few minutes (it is just under five minutes long) and want to see inside our label printing operation, you may view the Lightning Labels video by HP online.

New Finishing Equipment on Order

In April we placed an order for several pieces of new equipment from AB Graphic International. They make what is called "finishing equipment" which are die cutters, sheeters, and rewinders. We ordered five new pieces of equipment including a state of the art Digicon 2 die cutter. We expect to take delivery in late July or early August. This new equipment will allow us to serve you better in a number of ways. We will be able get orders through our plant faster, and die cutting will be even more accurate than it is today.

LL President Scores a Hole-in-One at Industry Conference Golf Tournament

In late February, the owners of Lightning Labels (Steve Smith and Peter Renton) went to the annual HP DSCOOP conference in San Diego. Like many of these conferences it featured a golf tournament, and this one was at the storied Torrey Pines South Course, the site of this year’s US Open. It is a spectacular course right on the ocean, and the number 11 hole is considered the most difficult par 3 on the course. Not for our president Steve Smith. He walked away from it with an ace, his first one ever.