The niche of a few businesses demands them to purchase label printing machinery for their everyday work. If you’re one of them, here’s a quick guide on choosing the ideal label printing machinery for completing your business tasks.
Since it’s a machine, certain elements must be considered before you choose a label for your business or products. These elements include:
- Release liner: It is the ‘carrier’ for the label. It protects the adhesive from debris or dust.
- Pressure-sensitive adhesive: helps in affixing the label to the surface.
- Facestock or film: acts as the backbone of the label by providing a surface for adhesive and topcoat.
- Printable topcoat: offers a background for printing.
- Printing: these are the codes, images, or texts that appear on the label.
Apart from analyzing these elements, one must also perform the following steps to pick the best label:
Step 1: Know Your Application
Get answers to a few questions…How will you be using the labels? What would be its purpose in your business?
Addressing your application for the label is one of the great places to begin with because it helps you get a context for other factors to consider as well.
- Would you require the labels to be permanent, removable or repositionable?
- Are you looking for labels that will be employed for asset tracking, component identification, or printed circuit board (PCB) identification?
Step 2: Environment Consideration
It’s quite essential to have face stock, topcoat, and adhesive to withstand environmental conditions for the label to perform continuously and successfully.
- Will the labels be exposed to extreme weather conditions?
- Will they be used indoors or outdoors?
- Will the labels be exposed to abrasions or chemicals?
Step 3: Regulatory Requirements
For any business, being compliant with regulatory demands is a must. There exists an alphabet soup of regulatory agencies and conditions. Therefore, you must consider the following:
Are there any mandatory regulatory requirements such as REACH, SAE, RoHS, UL, CSA?
Step 4: Printing Technologies
The final factor to consider when picking a label printing machinery is the print technology it operates on. It’s essential to match the printing technology you use with the application and environment to get the best results.
We hope this blog helped you in understanding the fundamental factors to keep in check while picking ideal label machinery for your business.
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