Roll Labels.

Unwind position is the direction each label faces as it comes off the roll, and there are eight standard positions. An applicator built for one position will jam, or put labels on upside down, if it's fed another. The roll can look right and still be unusable.

Check your machine's manual or the tag on an old roll, and give us the position number when you order.

Core size is set by the spindle on your applicator or printer, usually 3 in for industrial machines and 1 in for desktop printers. A roll wound on the wrong core simply won't mount. Outer diameter matters as well, because a roll too large for the unwind arm won't fit either.

Tell us the largest outer diameter your machine takes and we'll wind each roll to suit it.

The applicator's sensor reads the gap to find where each label starts. If the gap is wrong for the machine, labels land off-position or the line stops. The gap comes from the applicator spec, so it's a machine setting before it's a design choice.

Send us the model of applicator you run and we'll set the gap and label pitch to match it.

Paper is fine for dry, ambient goods, and film is the choice for anything wet, oily or handled a lot. BOPP film resists moisture, oil and abrasion. On glass and PET, clear film makes the label almost disappear. For cold-chain products, a freezer-grade adhesive bonds at low temperatures.

Kraft and HDPE reject standard adhesive more often than people expect, and high-tack grades are made for exactly those surfaces.

Yes, digital printing adds batch numbers, serials and version codes at almost no extra cost. Each label can differ from the next without a plate change. The same run can also take matte or gloss laminate, spot UV over matte, and cold foil, which lays metallic inline and can be printed over.

Die-cutting follows any outline the web will carry.

Roll labels run from 1 in to 8 in wide, and the die can be any shape within that. Measure the label itself, then check the maximum web width your applicator accepts. Label pitch, meaning the label length plus the gap, decides how many labels fit on each roll.

Width, pitch, core and unwind all go on one drawing for you to approve.

The smallest roll label order we take is 500 labels. Digital printing lowered the entry point, since costs are dominated by set-up and fall quickly as the run grows. Orders can go to 100,000.

If you have several versions or flavours, tell us how you'd like them split across rolls so each one loads onto the line without sorting.

Wound and boxed rolls are ready 7 to 10 business days after proof approval. Rush production cuts that to 5 to 7 business days. Before a long run, a sample made in 5 to 7 business days lets you feed a few labels through your own applicator.

What you pay for that trial roll comes off the production order.