Customer Testimonials & Videos

O&H Danish Bakery in Racine, WI is well-known for its mouth-watering authentic Danish kringles and other pastries. Through its thriving mail order business, O&H customers buy pastry in a variety of flavors and sizes. O&H turned to the Kiaro! inkjet label printer to accommodate the unpredictability in its demand for labels. “One of the major advantages of the Kiaro! is that we can maintain a smaller inventory and print on demand,” said Vice President Peter Olesen.  “Going to the Kiaro! printer that is able to make a label only as we need it, reduce our wasted inventory – it just makes more sense,” said Eric Olesen, Owner and President.

Melissa Flohn, owner of La Crema Coffee Company, a specialty coffee roaster in Cincinnati, OH, did something different in 2012: she bought the Kiaro! inkjet label printer to make seasonal coffee labels printed with whimsical artwork created by Lula Bell Art & Designs. The idea was a hit: La Crema Coffee roasted and sold over 500,000 lbs. of coffee bag gifts in 2012. After 7 months of printing coffee labels with the Kiaro! label printer, Flohn says “We love the Kiaro!.” “We went with the Kiaro! because of the color it could achieve,” says Flohn.  “When I do a trade show, the first thing I hear from my customers when they walk into my booth is, “Oh my goodness, I love all the color – and look at the beautiful labels on that package.”

"We have 270 products we manufacture under our own label, and we print those labels in-house. The Kiaro! label printer allows us the flexibility to manufacture our products on the schedule we need,” said Larry Thompson, President of Progressive Labs. Based in Irving, Texas, Progressive Labs is a vertically integrated supplements manufacturer that develops, blends, encapsulates, tabletizes, and now labels its own dietary supplements. Progressive Labs printed 250,000 supplement labels with the Kiaro! label printer in its first 5 months of Kiaro! ownership, according to Greg Dragna, Director of Label Production. “I love the Kiaro! and I’d recommend it to anybody,” said Dragna.

Dave’s Marketplace is an IGA independent grocery chain with nine locations in Rhode Island. In the first six months of ownership, Dave’s Marketplace Graphic Designer Steve Alfaia used the Kiaro! inkjet label printer to print over 150,000 custom labels for fresh-cut produce and prepared foods made in its commissary kitchen. Dave’s Marketplace sees increased sales from its custom-labeled grocery items. “You put a label on an item, it makes a difference in how it sells.” Alfaia attributes the success of his labeling operation to the Kiaro!. “The speed of the machine is very impressive … I wouldn’t want to give it up.” said Alfaia.

The largest hunger relief organization in the Delaware Valley, Philabundance, uses the Pronto! 486 to re-label food donations on its high volume production line. The Pronto! 486 prints food labels with nutrition facts, cooking instructions, food weight, and the high-resolution Philabundance logo. Working together, the employees, volunteers, and donors of Philabundance feed more than 65,000 people each week in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Spangler Candy Company doesn’t use its high-volume packaging lines to handle small quantity orders for Saf-T-Pop® lollipops with personalized labels – it chooses to print personalized labels in short-run batches with the Vivo! Touch color label printer instead! Spangler’s new custom-labeled Saf-T-Pop program has opened avenues for new sales for the company, and has added a personal touch to giveaway items, promotional items, and party favors for businesses and individual consumers alike.

Watch how "Boston's Real Fish House" fresh fish distributor M. F. Foley Fish uses the Pronto! 482 integrated with Seasoft® to print labels for their trademark Foley Fish golden metal tins as they are packed and weighed.

When Austin’s legendary Soup Peddler wanted to automate label printing for their rotating menu of hundreds of soups and entrées, owner David Ansel chose the Pronto! 486 barcode printer and a flexographically pre-printed template label from QuickFlex™.

EXACTA Dental Direct uses the Vivo! digital color label printer to print color labels in short run batches for each product in their line of FDA-regulated Fresh Bold restorative dental products and supplies. EXACTA sells direct, saving dentists 30-40% over buying from distributors. By printing color labels just-in-time with the Vivo!, EXACTA cut its label inventory costs by tens of thousands of dollars in just two years.