During the judging of packagePRINTING’s 2007 Excellence Awards, the judges’ eyes were drawn to this year’s collection of digital entries. But, one entry earned more than just a glance. Wilmington, Mass.-based Dow Industries, received the honor of Best in Show for its “Canary Island Banana - Hybrid” label, produced for The Yankee Candle Company. The entry is also the first-place winner in the digital labels category.

Dow created a gold hot-stamp look from the silver, and used percentages of white ink for the ocean background, allowing for transparency in selected areas. The labels were press proofed in a few hours and produced on one of Dow’s HP Indigo 4000 presses. They were then off-line diecut on a Rotoflex Vericut die cutter, and slit and inspected on a Rotoflex inspection rewinder.