Roll Labels

Labels are used to educate, instruct, identify, decorate, advertise, and communicate. Several industries utilize roll labels on a daily basis. The telecommunications, aerospace, technology, original equipment manufacturers and medical are a few industries that need labels to place onto their products and equipment. These industries buy labels in bulk to place on the tens of thousands of products produced, guidelines that need to be followed and equipment bought each year.

Labels are used for a variety of reasons. Roll Labels contain vital information for equipment operators and inform consumers about the products they purchased. Labels serve many purposes. There are warning labels to inform someone of a potential hazard, danger labels, compliance labels, symbology labels, and safety labels. Some common examples of labels are the warning labels on fuse boxes alerting someone about a shock hazard, an instructional label on ladders telling people how to properly use the ladder, bar code labels on a CD package and compliance labels directing employees how to follow the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s guidelines.

Depending on the client’s need, roll labels can be made out of various materials. There are polyester labels, paper labels, vinyl labels and polycarbonate (plastic) labels. Labels can come in several different formats from rolls to sheets to individual pieces, but roll labels are great for assembly line workers in the manufacturing industry. You can place the roll on a spool and workers can peel the labels off and stick them onto parts as they move down the assembly line. Easy to store and better than fumbling with individual pieces and large sheets.

You can order roll labels in virtually any shape and size. Any label can be custom made to fit any type of job. Labels that come on a roll can be square cut, rectangle cut, oval cut, circle cut or cut with a custom made die.

Roll Labels also have many applications. You can order labels with sequential bar coding and numbering for inventory and tracking purposes, labels that can withstand harsh high-temperature environments, caution and warning labels, tamper-evident and destructible labels for security applications, labels with specialty overlaminates that are resistant to UV rays and harsh chemicals, labels with permanent adhesives that can whether the outdoors and stick to any stubborn surface and removable adhesives for clean label removal.

So how are roll labels made? There are several methods used to print labels. Labels can be screen printed using four color process and Pantone color matching, thermal transfer printing, flexo printing or hot stamp printing. Flexo and hot stamp printing is often ideal because it is roll to roll processing, which is cost effective and shortens production runs.

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