Six Reasons Digital Labels Are Right for Your Product

Digital tags are quickly becoming a popular option for labels, stickers and labels for product. There are many good reasons for this including low cost, top quality, quick turn-around and small batches of capabilities.

Digital presses have been utilized by shelf labels to produce stunning product labels for food packaging as well as lotion bottles. When planning your new label designs, take into consideration the many advantages of digitally printed pressure-sensitive labels.

Prime Label or Decorative

For labels with at least four colors, digital tags are ideal. The quality of the printing on your label is crucial for you to sell your product and reflect your brand. Image registration, consistency of color and the vibrancy of colors are all addressed with digital labels.

Our HP Indigo presses print most of our labels as our primary product label. Our digital printing room is commonly utilized for beverage labels as well as food pouch labels and private label brands. If the label you choose to use will be used to promote your brand, then the chances are that it will be suitable for digital.

Digital tags allows for a much lower minimum than labels printed with flexographic. There's a good chance that digital tags is a good fit to your business if you require between 500 and 25,000 labels. It's not necessary to keep extra inventory if you just need it for a short production run.

Variable Print On Press

Variable data label is a kind of Digital tags that includes on-demand labels. It allows elements such as text and graphics to be changed from one part to the next without slowing or stopping the labeling process. VDP uses information from a database or external files.

Flexo labels require plates for each unique image and color so variable label on the flexographic press is not possible. Digital presses can print continuous numbers as well as variable data, and nearly every other variation in label-to-label.

Cost of Labels

Labels on a digital finisher.jpgWhen your labels are created on an flexo label machine, a new label die may be required for unique dimensions or shapes. They can cost hundreds of dollars. Flexographic presses also use metal plates, just like regular label presses, to create images for each color of the design. Six plates are required for a 6-color label.

Digital label orders from Weber don't require a charge for an die to cut labels and, because there are no plates, you'll only be paying only for your labels. To find out more about how to digital labels work, you must check out our website.

Packaging Sustainability

Flexible labels may have a lot more material waste because the operator must adjust the color and align plates during set-up to ensure perfect label.

However, with digital labels there is a minimal amount of waste. There is basically no set-up required, which keeps costs low. You can purchase as little as 500 labels. Many times, we hear from customers who have told us that they had to order thousands of labels to save money and ended up throwing away thousands of their old inventory that were never used in the first place.

Flexibility

One of the most appealing features of digital label label is artwork flexibility. You might consider making updates to your label as your product line develops. A change of even a single color or letter could result in you paying minimum $100 for a new plate.

Since plates don't have to be purchased in digital print, you are able to easily modify your design , and then send in revised artwork and get it printed at no additional plate charges. This is ideal for start up brands or series runs that include many SKUs.