“Six Points of Precision” is the name that Mossberg & Company gives to the comprehensive quality assurance program that governs every manufacturing step at this 85-year old commercial printing business in South Bend, IN. Machine-mounted cameras, double-sheet detectors, barcode and OCR scanners, and scrupulous proof-checking routines are among the tools employed to guarantee product integrity before, during, and after production, no matter what printing process is used or what the particulars of the job may be.

James W. Hillman, Mossberg’s president and CEO, notes that adherence to these strict standards is mission-critical for the company’s labeling and packaging solutions business, which now accounts for about 20% of revenue. Targeting applications that have tight quality requirements and may also be subject to regulatory oversight, Mossberg’s label and packaging division relies on the six-point approach to “maintain accuracy all the way down to the pixel level” when producing these items, Hillman says.

Mossberg prints and finishes pressure-sensitive, film, and expanded-content labels for healthcare and pharmaceutical products and a variety of consumer goods. The company also has found an interesting niche in labels applied to packages for the water-testing industry, a market that calls upon all of its skills in by-the-numbers quality control.