Case Study · Point-of-Sale & Print Production

Coca-Cola Consolidated POS Print System

The point-of-sale range behind the Coca-Cola Consolidated web-to-print store: menu boards, clings, price discs, runner tags, table tents and banners, each template built to its production dieline so what a distribution center ordered online is what came off the press.

Three Coca-Cola point-of-sale pieces from the store: a combo-meal window cling, an Ice Cold Refreshment sign with Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and Sprite cans, and a 2 for $2.50 price disc

Three of the store's point-of-sale products, shown as the mockups buyers saw before ordering.

Client
Coca-Cola Consolidated
Employer
Vision Graphics (formerly Nutis Press)
My Role
Template design, dieline matching, mockups & print specs
Tools
Illustrator · Photoshop · InDesign · Fancy Product Designer

A web-to-print store is only as good as the print it produces. Every product in the Coca-Cola Consolidated store was a real piece of point-of-sale signage that had to print correctly, fit its holder or window, and stay on-brand no matter who customized it.

Distribution-center buyers logged in, picked a product, filled in prices, offers or a location name, and ordered. Behind each of those products was a template I built to its production dieline and print spec, plus a mockup matched to the finished piece so buyers knew exactly what would arrive. This page is the print side of the work; the platform, UX and SAP Ariba integration are covered in the Coca-Cola Consolidated store case study.

One brand, dozens of formats

The catalog covered the formats a bottler's customers actually use in store: menu boards, window clings and perforated window film, cooler clings, price discs and stickers, shelf strips and shelf talkers, table tents and inserts, coasters, fountain-cup signage, posters, large-format signs and banners. Each had its own size, substrate, dieline and finishing.

Menu board, 36 × 72 in
Menu board · 36 × 72 in
Window cling with a combo meal and Coca-Cola
Window cling
Perforated window film, 30 × 39 in, with editable offer fields
Window perf · 30 × 39 in
Cooler cling
Cooler cling
2 for $2.50 round price sign
Price sign
Price disc cling, 7 × 7 in
Price disc · 7 × 7 in
2 for $3.75 yellow sticker
Sticker
Die-cut price disc with energy drink cans, 2 for $4.50
Die-cut price disc
Shelf strip for smartwater 700 mL, 2 for $4.50
Shelf strip
Taste the Magic shelf talker, 2 for $6
Shelf talker
Coca-Cola 2 liter strip sign
2-liter strip
T-shaped price topper, $1.49
Price topper
Ice Cold Refreshment sign with Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and Sprite cans
In-store sign
Proudly Serving fountain cups sign, 12 × 8 in
Fountain sign · 12 × 8 in
Enjoy Coca-Cola round coaster, 4 × 4 in
Coaster · 4 × 4 in
Die-cut Fanta Wanta? sign
Die-cut Fanta sign
Add Delicious to Your Order Coca-Cola vinyl banner, 3 × 6 ft, with grommets
Vinyl banner · 3 × 6 ft. Large-format pieces ran from the same brand system as a 4-inch coaster.

Templates matched to what actually prints

Each product carried its own dieline and print spec. I built every template's artwork to its dieline, with bleed, trim and safe zones set before anything was editable, then matched the storefront mockup to the printed piece. Spot colors and spec requirements were held by product type, so the brand reds stayed consistent from a 4-inch coaster to a 6-foot banner.

A table-tent insert template beside the assembled table tent it slides into
A table-tent insert mapped to the holder it slides into.
Runner tags packaging reference: 18 tags per sheet, 5 sheets per pack
Runner tags: 18 per sheet, 5 sheets per pack, with a packaging reference so buyers knew what a single order contained.
A Bodyarmor table tent built to its dieline
A table tent built to its dieline.
Template reference showing the four insert panels in display order
Panel order reference.
Panel reference showing the available brand panels
Brand panel reference.
Dieline first
Artwork built to each product's production dieline, with bleed, trim and safe zones locked in
Spot color
Brand reds and spec compliance held by product type across substrates and presses
Matched mockups
Storefront mockups built to match the printed piece, so the order matched the expectation

Buyers change the offer, never the brand

The templates opened in the store's customizer with only the fields that genuinely change unlocked: prices, offers, combo descriptions, location names. Coca-Cola artwork, fonts and colors stayed locked. A buyer in any of the store's 72 distribution-center markets could localize a sign quickly and still send a press-ready, on-brand file.

The store template editor with locked brand artwork and a short list of editable fields
The template editor: locked artwork, guided fields.
A custom table tent with four brand panels
A custom table tent: buyers choose the brand panels.

A Spanish-language set from approved translations

For distribution centers serving Spanish-speaking customers, I built Spanish versions of the signage and a Spanish-language category in the store, working from approved translations. Same templates, same locked brand system, in-language copy, with no one-off translation requests.

Spanish push/pull door signs: sí, estamos abiertos and lo siento, estamos cerrados
Door signs · 8 × 12 in
Apoya Local round Coca-Cola sign
Apoya Local · 12 × 12 in
Spanish Hecho en México table tent
Table tent
Spanish Coca-Cola cooler cling
Cooler cling

Print that held up at platform scale

The store this range lived in processed $208,445 in GMV across 560 purchase orders, shipping to 271 locations in 72 distribution-center markets. Those orders ran on templates like the ones on this page.

Why this matters for hire: a template system is design work that keeps paying off. Getting the dieline, color and locked zones right once meant hundreds of orders could print correctly without a designer rebuilding each file.

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