06.24.15
Browndog Creamery makes hand crafted ice cream in small batches of just a few gallons at a time. A new video shows that with small quantities of gourmet flavors and a rapidly changing menu, owners Paul Gabriel and Brian Scherle found label cost savings and greater packaging flexibility by printing their own labels.
QuickLabel Systems, a business unit of Astro-Med, Inc. has released a video interview with Browndog Creamery to document how the micro-creamery uses the Kiaro! label printer to print labels for their many flavors of ice cream. By printing their own labels, Browndog Creamery is able to professionally package their pints of ice cream at low-cost while maximizing their flexibility to introduce and package new ice cream flavors.
Browndog Creamery, located in Northville, MI, USA, makes their ice cream in very small batches. “We’re not a mass factory where we make thousands of gallons of ice cream. We make about four or five gallons at a time for each flavor,” explains co-owner Paul Gabriel, “I first looked at purchasing the Kiaro! because we developed so many new products every day.”
Gabriel credits the Kiaro! label printer with helping his company to avoid buying large minimum label orders and to prevent any need for storing pre-printed labels in inventory. “I knew we would be running small batches of ice cream and I didn’t want to take an inventory of a hundred or a thousand labels of one flavor because I knew we might only need ten labels,” he says. “The Kiaro! has been a wonderful fit in our business to allow us to make these very small run labels and customize them to everything that we needed to do.”
Gabriel says that one of Browndog Creamery’s chief concerns was finding labels that were able to withstand the freezing temperatures necessary for storing ice cream. “The synthetic material that we use for the pint labels is pretty resistant to water and we actually label the pints after they’ve gone through the freezing process,” says Gabriel. “We were a little skeptical about how they would adhere to a frozen pint, but the Kiaro! labels do quite well.”
QuickLabel Systems has designed label materials that are perfect for frozen foods. Kiaro! material #178 is a gloss white polypropylene that stands up to extremely cold temperatures, from -65° F to +147° F (-54° C to 64° C), as well as moisture, allowing the label to go from the freezer cabinet to the table. Material #178 provides Kiaro! users with glossy, great-looking frozen food labels.
QuickLabel Systems, a business unit of Astro-Med, Inc. has released a video interview with Browndog Creamery to document how the micro-creamery uses the Kiaro! label printer to print labels for their many flavors of ice cream. By printing their own labels, Browndog Creamery is able to professionally package their pints of ice cream at low-cost while maximizing their flexibility to introduce and package new ice cream flavors.
Browndog Creamery, located in Northville, MI, USA, makes their ice cream in very small batches. “We’re not a mass factory where we make thousands of gallons of ice cream. We make about four or five gallons at a time for each flavor,” explains co-owner Paul Gabriel, “I first looked at purchasing the Kiaro! because we developed so many new products every day.”
Gabriel credits the Kiaro! label printer with helping his company to avoid buying large minimum label orders and to prevent any need for storing pre-printed labels in inventory. “I knew we would be running small batches of ice cream and I didn’t want to take an inventory of a hundred or a thousand labels of one flavor because I knew we might only need ten labels,” he says. “The Kiaro! has been a wonderful fit in our business to allow us to make these very small run labels and customize them to everything that we needed to do.”
Gabriel says that one of Browndog Creamery’s chief concerns was finding labels that were able to withstand the freezing temperatures necessary for storing ice cream. “The synthetic material that we use for the pint labels is pretty resistant to water and we actually label the pints after they’ve gone through the freezing process,” says Gabriel. “We were a little skeptical about how they would adhere to a frozen pint, but the Kiaro! labels do quite well.”
QuickLabel Systems has designed label materials that are perfect for frozen foods. Kiaro! material #178 is a gloss white polypropylene that stands up to extremely cold temperatures, from -65° F to +147° F (-54° C to 64° C), as well as moisture, allowing the label to go from the freezer cabinet to the table. Material #178 provides Kiaro! users with glossy, great-looking frozen food labels.