Get Your Preprinted Labels

Color Label Solutions has been about print on-demand color labels since the beginning:

• Print the labels you need, when you need them.
• Update the artwork as needed. 
• Eliminate the inventory of preprinted labels.
• Reduce or eliminate obsolete label inventory.
• Make adding variable data easy to do

But sometimes, preprinted labels make sense; and now Color Label Solutions offers the expertise to support your requirements for preprinted labels.  Troy Nettles has joined our team as our expert in Preprinted and Prime Labels.

Troy Nettles

Troy Nettles is an accomplished Business Development Manager with 23 years of experience working in the label manufacturing industry. His extensive knowledge in the flexographic/rotary letterpress printing has made Troy a leader in sales and account management. Troy possesses an in-depth knowledge of pressure sensitive material/adhesives that provides the best possible solution and economic value for our customers.

Troy has worked with many different organizations in the labeling and printing industries such as, Diverse Label Printing (DLP), Copac, ITW Labels and JIT Manufacturing. His major key accomplishments have been with DLP where he helped to assemble the “core” team to launch the company and acted as the National Sales Manager.  With Color Label Solutions, Troy will work with our customers to meet their requirements with prime and preprinted labels as well as sales in the Eastern United States.

In his role, Troy will work with our parent, General Data, who has the equipment to produce preprinted/Prime labels in both large and relatively small quantities:

Label Plant

• 15 Flexographic presses from 10” to 23” wide.  And soon, General Data will add a new Nilpeter 13” press
• 2 Digital Memjet-based Hybrid printers for printing shorter production runs

Recently, I was in our facility, watching them rewind/slit a label order for one of our customers:

When asked about when to use Preprinted labels, Troy says, “Volume is the key question in determining which type of label to use.  If you are using 40,000 to 50,000 labels per month with less than 10 SKU’s, preprinted labels will save you money. We use both digital and flexographic presses to provide the best possible preprinted labels for our customers. Which press to use depends on the volume and materials required.”

Label Press

Continuing, Troy says “Flexographic presses will save money in longer press runs.  In addition, these types of analog presses enable foil materials, embossing and other options that are important for certain customers.  But press set up and plate changes take time; up to 1.5 hours per job.  If the job takes only 6 hours, then setup time is a major portion of the costs.  Digital presses take very little time to setup, and work well for shorter runs. Costs per label, however, do not really decrease with increases in volume.”

Label Press

In addition to when to use preprinted labels, I asked Troy “what information is required to quote preprinted labels”.  Troy says, “Quantities and even annual quantities are the most important questions to ask.  Using annual quantities enables me to lower the costs of labels for larger runs.  Also, I ask about material type, hand or automatic application, unwind direction and other questions from our list to ensure the labels work the first time for our customers.”

Unwind Position Chart

After discussing the requirements, I asked Troy about what type of artwork files do you need to produce high quality preprinted labels.  Troy says “Adobe Illustrator and/or high-resolution PDF’s ensure the artwork prints correctly.  Other file types may work, but these 2 types seem to work the best.”

No matter what, Color Label Solutions will sell print on-demand color labels. But now we have expertise in Troy to help you with preprinted labels as well; and thus offer you the best “tool” required for your situation.  Contact us if we can help you with any type of color label requirements.

Guy Mikel

855-962-7670

info@colorlabelsolutions.com