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Independent II (CONT’D FROM PAGE 42)

Most of Independent II’s customers are within a 150- mile radius but finished product ships to everywhere around the country, especially to customers in the liquor

“You can see the ‘pop’ we’ve brought to our customers and now we can do it, quite literally, with the touch of a but- ton,” says MacDonald, who acknowledges Independent II doesn’t possess the “deep DNA” of process printing and color management that exists in Atlanta, Chicago or Los

Finn MacDonald with a sample of a digital print project.

Angeles. But there is indeed market opportunity in Louis- ville for Independent II to produce single-pass digital WIP on the Domino that can then go “downstream” to seven other machine centers, rather than trying to upgrade three centers to print six-colors. “For us, this makes sense,” says MacDonald.

and spirits segment. (Louisville, Kentucky, after all, is the bourbon capital of the world.) MacDonald projects the company can do $3 million in digital work in 2023, which Finn MacDonald with the Domino’s operators, James Tyson, left, and Thomas Lau and a sample of their digital printing.

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