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Inkspot Inc knows a good label starts before the ink
The Santa Fe Springs printer grew out of prepress and plate making. Its pitch to brands is practical: help the artwork survive the journey from screen to shelf.
Vintage 99 makes wine labels worth picking up
Foil, texture, and a very unforgiving production line: inside the California printer turning winery artwork into something a shopper can hold.
TransAct Paid $3.55 Million to Stop Renting Its Software Future
The 30-year-old printer maker built a useful software business on code it did not control. Now it owns a perpetual license, runs BOHA! on Azure, and is weighing what to do with the casino unit that still pays most of the bills.
The Company That Puts a Label on Almost Everything You Touch at Work
For 110 years, Brady has made the humble label a serious business. Now, fresh off a $1.4 billion deal for Honeywell's barcode-and-scanner unit, the Milwaukee manufacturer is betting that whoever labels the thing should also track it.
Auctane
Auctane is the Austin-based software company behind a family of shipping and mailing brands - ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShippingEasy, ShipEngine, ShipWorks, Endicia, Metapack, GlobalPost and Packlink - that help merchants of every size print labels, compare carrier rates, automate order fulfillment and track parcels worldwide. Formerly known as Stamps.com, it rebranded to Auctane in 2021 under Thoma Bravo ownership, and in June 2026 merged with freight broker WWEX Group to form ShipStation Global, a combined logistics platform serving more than 3 million customers and moving over 3 billion shipments a year.