Do you have small
containers requiring more content than the label size allows?
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| Wrap Around GHS Labels |
We’re providing labels
that wrap around almost twice to provide additional label real estate to meet
the GHS requirements on small containers.
Although not allowed us to
use the company name, I decided to post an overview of what we are doing for this
small to medium size company of aroma chemicals.
After finding Color Label Solutions via our website (www.colorlabel.solutions) and blog (www.colorlabelsondemand.blogspot.com) in the winter of 2014, our customer wanted to test a GHS label printer
prior to purchasing. To help them move
forward, we provided our customer a demo C3500 printer and labels to test;
using GHS label designs created by 3E (www.3ecompany.com/). 3E Company, a
Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq: VRSK) business, is a global provider of data and
information services which enable companies to improve compliance with
Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) regulations and supply chain
obligations through the entire lifecycle of chemicals and products.
During the testing, our customer printed a variety of label
sizes and designs. Also, the customer tested
the labels under different conditions (freezer, oven, etc.) for adhesion,
durability and acetone resistance. In their tests, the matte poly labels held
up very well; and then decided to purchase a C3500 and initially 3” x 5” and then later 4” x 7”
inkjet coated labels with their logo preprinted.
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| Preprinted Logo's Removed |
With the logo’s, we took
several iterations to get the labels to look exactly as required. When preprinting, it’s important to insure
you get the exact color match and dimensions you want. Plus with Epson inkjet printers, you can’t
print on top of the color; so the logo’s were placed at the top out of the way
of the GHS label content. As the labels look great, I wish I could show you the
finished product.
After completing the
preprinted labels, the customer had one more request: sample bottle
labels. The real estate on these bottles
was too small to place all of the required GHS content without using tiny font
sizes. Therefore, our customer wanted to
know if we could place adhesive on one end of the label and then skip an area
before adding adhesive again at the end.
With this design, our customer could produce labels that would stick to
the bottle and then wrap around again to stick only at the end on top of the
lower layer.
Given the requirement, we
suggested to use a “Kill Adhesive”. With
the kill adhesive, it prevents the adhesive from working on a section of the
label. After sending samples of the kill
adhesive, our customer ordered preprinted, 1.5” x 6” labels with 2.875” of good
adhesive, 3” of kill adhesive applied, and then .125” of adhesive at the end.
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| Label With Kill Adhesive |
As we recommended the
adhesive be applied to the leading edge of the label, our customer needed to
work with 3E to redesign the labels. But
this work paid off in a great looking design, even adding “peel here” text, and
a dotted line on where the end of the label would attach to the lower first
wrap.
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| Wrap Around GHS Label |
On this particular label,
a bit of the ink from the lower wrapped peeled off. But this potential ink
issue is not critical as the customer designed the label to eliminate most of
the content in the area of the tab of adhesive at the end.
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| Wrap Around GHS Label |
Overall, the customer
designed great looking and unique GHS labels.
And according to him, “the GHS labels look and work great!” If you like unique options for small
containers, be sure to read our recent post on GHS tags as well: http://colorlabelsondemand.blogspot.com/2015/08/great-idea-ghs-tags-for-small-packages.html
Working with people like this
customer is one of the great benefits of leading Color Label Solutions. Contact us if we can help you with unique and
colorful labels and tags.
Guy Mikel
855-962-7670
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