P.O. Box 5290, Benton City, WA, United States of America, 99320

http://www.columbialabel.com

(888) 791-9590

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Build Your Brand with High Build

High Build is an embellishment you can both SEE and FEEL like an epoxy. Bring out the gloss in any label as a beautiful and unique embellishment!

Reach Out and Touch it!

Evoke a sense of curiosity and impress your customer. This is a screen printing technique that provides height and dimension to the label itself, a mixture of emboss and spot gloss combined with the WOW factor.

At Columbia Label, we specialize in clean, consistent registration and we take pride in producing gorgeous results time and time again! We are ready to help make your labels feel right! Let us know if you would like to schedule a free consultation with one of our label specialists today!

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Crafting Labels That Tell Your Wine's Story

The Power of Customization in the Wine Industry

In the crowded wine market, standing out is crucial. Custom labels do more than just adorn a bottle; they tell the unique story of your vineyard and your wine. Whether you're launching a new vintage or rebranding, your labels serve as the first impression your consumers will have of your product.


Why Choose Columbia Label?
With Columbia Label, you get access to expert design advice and an array of materials tailored to showcase your wine's distinct identity. From rustic felt textures to the modern elegance of clear or silver finishes, we help you craft labels that speak to your brand’s essence. And with our wide selection of materials like Estate, De-Icer™, and Allure, your wine will shine—no matter the conditions.


Pro Tip: Not sure what material works best for your wine? Let us guide you through the process. We understand the nuances of different textures and finishes that complement various wine styles and environments.


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Why Your Wine Label Materials Matter: A Guide to Choosing the Right Material

The Secret to a Durable, Eye-Catching Label
A wine label isn’t just a decorative piece; it’s a functional part of your branding. Choosing the right materials ensures your label stays intact from the vineyard to the consumer’s glass, even in challenging environments like cold storage or refrigeration.

Columbia Label’s Material Mastery
From the moisture-resistant De-Icer™ for chilled bottles to the rustic, earthy appeal of Kraft, we offer materials that stand up to the elements while adding a unique tactile experience to your labels. Columbia Label’s BOPP and clear materials offer durability without sacrificing design flexibility, making them perfect for bottles that need to withstand condensation.


Choosing the right material isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about performance. Let Columbia Label help you find the perfect stock for your wine.

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Spirited Glow: How to Make Your Wine Label Stand Out This Spooky Season


As Halloween approaches, it’s time to get creative with your wine labels!

GLOW IN THE DARK LABEL EMBELLISHMENTS

Glow in the dark is a delightfully fun and interactive embellishment. Using our screenprinting technique, we apply a thick gloss that will glow green in the dark after being exposed to light and lasts up to an hour. This embellishment works well as a practical application for safety labels, or even as a fun twist to any Halloween or novelty label.

Make your wine label stand out this spooky season with Columbia Labels!

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Join Columbia Label at Unified Next Week!

Find us at booth A2427 at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium from January 24th to 25th!

Label Maker Manufacturer Finds Its Niche in Wine Country

A Benton City wine label maker continues to grow its company, portfolio and staff of women managers. Headed up by part owner and general manager, Katii Deaton, Columbia Label has built out its niche near Red Mountain, offering big city capabilities in the heart of Washington’s wine county.

“It’s been really great because, as part of the wine industry and the camaraderie happening there, we have the ability for our customers to run down the road and pick up their labels and help them with whatever they need help with,” Deaton said. “People think the wine industry is pretentious, but it’s not. I love having people come here or have me go there.”

The company was founded as Ripped Sheets in the late ’90s, an expansion of raster image processing, or the conversion from a computer to a printer. It relocated from Seattle to 1580 Dale Ave. in Benton City in 2009. The location allowed for expansion and the addition of Columbia Label, a second arm of parent company Halldata LLC.

Printer operator Mayela Grijalva is one of the 43 employees who work at Columbia Label and Ripped Sheets. (Photo by Robin Wojtanik)

Women in manufacturing

Deaton began soon after as a sales representative before working her way into her current role as owner/manager and encouraging the founders, Steve Hall and Leslie Ritter, to mostly retire. Together, the businesses now employ 43 people, with women working as primary managers currently and historically for Columbia Label.

“An easy way for me to grow my managers is by building up females,” Deaton said. “Once they have the confidence they can do it, they thrive. Even in manufacturing, it’s just about getting confidence. My wood shop class was the most influential class I had.”

A recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau says this is out of the norm in America, as women make up only about a quarter of positions in manufacturing. “Manufacturing jobs are not the hazardous and dangerous jobs they used to be. Many are now high-tech, from design and marketing to administration, finance and sales, and cybersecurity,” the report noted.

Still, while nearly half of the American workforce is women, only about 30% work in the manufacturing sector.

Deaton aims to hire locally, not just women, but those in and around Benton City to be part of the growing team.

In-house design

The company’s in-house designer is also a woman.

“For her to have the ability to come in, sit down, ask questions to customers, ‘What’s your next big thing?,’ ‘What embellishments can I use,’ it helps people see the show and get a better understanding of everything,” Deaton said.

Deaton said a local winery overhauled its entire brand after working with Columbia Label’s in-house designer on how to stay within its budget while making its labels pop, which could include embossing, foil or even glow in the dark.

“The label is their calling card. That’s what’s going to make someone pick up a bottle on the shelf and we take care to make sure it stands out,” she said.

Standing out is exactly what Walla Walla’s Cougar Crest wanted when it commissioned Columbia Label to design its look for a new summer wine, Cat’s Away Rosé. The wine is named after its resident feline, Whiskey, who’s considered an “icon of Cougar Crest,” according to Jessica Hagen, whose family owns the winery.

The label features an image of Whiskey. “We put sunglasses on her with a holographic film, so she looks like a gangster cat. We are really excited about it and think it will sell well,” Hagen said.

This was Cougar Crest’s first time working with Columbia Label.

“I was a little surprised; they could provide the same customization I would have expected from a much larger producer,” Hagen said. She met with Columbia Label representatives in Walla Walla to help nail down the design.

“Having those face-to-face conversations makes it so much easier than over video chat or over the phone,” she said.

Cougar Crest has its own bottling line and will still use a larger commercial label manufacturer for most production, but it was encouraged by the outcome of this custom project and the chance to establish a new relationship.

Variety of options

Columbia Label also can print on cans and spirits bottles, covering the typical beverage lineup, while Ripped Sheets focuses on templates, tags, stickers, signs and sheets.

“A lot of prototyping happens with us because we have the ability to do smaller quantities instead of having you purchase an intense amount of material to find out it’s not going to work or it’s not going to fit,” Deaton said. “We have a 10-sheet minimum, so we can at least get our foot in the door to help people out when starting the project.”

Columbia Label can print on cans and spirits bottles, covering the typical beverage lineup, while Ripped Sheets focuses on templates, tags, stickers, signs and sheets. Pictured is printer operator Christian Martinez. (Photo by Robin Wojtanik)

Ripped Sheets is mainly an online presence and can ship worldwide. It has a lot of customers on the East Coast.

Deaton is proud of succeeding on a unique request. “They said, ‘I want a label I can write on underwater while scuba diving.’ I figured it out. It took some ingenuity, but I figured it out,” she said.

The company recently made multimillion-dollar investments in HP indigo digital presses, and was a stop last fall on a cross-state tour organized by the Association of Washington Business, the state’s manufacturing association.

The industry is hoping to double the number of manufacturing jobs in Washington over the next decade. AWB says more than 8,000 people work for manufacturers across Benton and Franklin counties, earning an average wage of more than $60,000.

Deaton is excited about the capabilities and cutting-edge technology in her shop.

“The closest places that can do what we do is Portland or Seattle, but they don’t grow their grapes there,” she said.

The proximity to the wine industry allows her team to work closely with winemakers to learn how much they yielded and when they’re bottling, bringing a rush that coincides with grape harvest or crush. This summer she’s expecting to get hit hard with orders in July.

“Having the ability to know exactly who you’re working with is amazing,” Deaton said.

Go to: columbialabel.com, @columbialabelwa, rippedsheets.com.

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Most Modern and Largest Digital Wine Label Facility

New and exciting things have been happening at Columbia Label. We have a new digital press, with now three in total. We also have a new ABG D3 six-unit finisher. 

Our plant has been expanded to now 22,000 square feet. 

Stop by booth A2327 to pick up some awesome label samples and chat with us about how Columbia Label can turn your label dreams into reality!


Explore the Ways We Can Elevate Your Labels Today!

It’s well known that label design makes a world of difference in wine sales. With so many similar-shaped bottles side by side, the design on your roll label is a pivotal part of the shopper’s experience.

Take advantage of our flexibility and short turnaround times to label your wine quickly, beautifully, and effectively!

Ever Thought About Alternative Materials?

Silver is the new rising star! Printing on silver allows the label to shine and provides the elegance of foil with additional options of opacity and colors. Moreover silver works for most embellishments if you want to seriously elevate your label!

How We Do It

Using white ink during the printing process, we are able to dull the areas of print where you don’t want the shine to come through. If you don’t use white ink the shiny material will show through! We can even do varying percentages of white for different levels of metallic. There are numerous ways to mix things up with our silver stock!

We specialize in clean, consistent registration and we take pride in producing gorgeous results time and time again! We are ready to help make your labels feel right! Let us know if you would like to schedule a free consultation with one of our label specialists today!

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Make an Impression with Emboss

Have you ever thought about a blind emboss? We use this technique to create a textured background on an otherwise smooth material such as an Estate 8. You can blind emboss all areas of the label – from smaller details on a larger surface, like a background.

How It Works

We must heat up the emboss station on our press to the perfect temperature and adjust the tooling alignment to be exact. Our goal is to achieve the most elegant emboss possible! Our attention to details helps us to stand out. We take the time to impress.

All types of wine stock and paper materials have the option to be embossed or debossed. Yes I said it, the elusive DEBOSS when the plate presses the area down instead of pressing the area up.

We specialize in clean, consistent registration and we take pride in producing gorgeous results time and time again! We are ready to help make your labels feel right! Let us know if you would like to schedule a free consultation with one of our label specialists today!

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About

In 2010, we established a new digital roll label division aptly named Columbia Label after the nearby Columbia River and Columbia Valley in Southeast Washington State. We are located in the heart of Washington State’s vineyard and winery region, which includes 16 official American Viticultural Areas (AVAs). Washington State is the second-largest wine production area in the USA and Columbia Label is the only wine label printer in the Washington Wine Growing Region in Eastern Washington State. It is located near 400+ wineries.

Our specialty through Rippedsheets.com has always been our ability to provide labels in any size or shape in a wide variety of durable materials, and quantities from 10 sheets to 10,000 sheets. Now we can provide the same quality products on rolls under the Columbia Label name.

Rippedsheets.com™, Columbialabel.com™ are trademarks of Halldata, LLC™.

OUR PROMISE

Today’s consumers demand attractive product labels. You’ve invested many months or years in making your product stand out, so your labeling needs to do the same! As veterans of the label printing industry, we’ve continually invested in the innovative materials and printing techniques that produce custom labels. Nobody is better equipped to help you showcase your product.

We understand the unique buyer influence and high stakes of wine labels. That’s why we proudly offer the Columbia Label commitment: every single design will be printed to your satisfaction. This means accurate and consistent service, of course.

To learn more about designing, ordering, and printing labels, please contact our team today.

Contact

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Title Name Email Phone Extension
President Stephen Hall sales@rippedsheets.com 1-888-791-9590
Sales & Marketing Ashley Young sales01@columbialabel.com 1-888-791-9590

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Locations Address State Country Zip Code
Columbia Label P.O. Box 5290, Benton City WA United States of America 99320

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