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Lindbergh Candle Co artisan candle with stamped cork lid
February 7, 2019

Guidelines for Small Text on Custom Labels
The UPS truck just dropped off your first box of custom labels! Inside the box are hundreds of brand new labels that you spent hours designing, pouring over the color scheme, and listing each and every ingredient with meticulous dedication. You pop open the box and take out a roll of labels to admire your…
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Waxing Kara lip balm and custom outer packaging.
February 6, 2019

Having Problems with Applying Labels for Lip Balm Tubes?
The weather is cold and people’s lips may be getting routinely chapped. The solution? Your awesome product! When applying labels to tubes of lip balm, or other curved surfaces, lip balm labels will sometimes try to peel off if not applied correctly. That is such a frustration and can cause more headaches than learning billing…
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January 25, 2019

Why Won't My Barcodes Scan?
F L A S H B A C K — You’re standing in a ridiculously long line of fresh-off-of-the-clock human beings. Walmart has one check-out lane open, and you just want to get home where Netflix and Velveeta instant mac-n-cheese are calling your name. But no! You and everyone else will have to bare a…
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Person applying clear labels to a jar of pomade.
November 30, 2018

Sttark's Guide to Applying Your Labels by Hand
So you’ve finally got your custom labels! Now what? It’s time to start labeling your product! If your business is just starting out, you might be looking to apply your labels by hand instead of using a machine. Hand-applied labels might seem intimidating at first, but it’s easier than you think. Follow the steps below…
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fruit crate label
November 15, 2018

The History of Labels, Part 1: Fruit Crate Labels
  -Fruit crate label from the 1920’s, artist is unknown.- Indomitable, robust, and knuckled with the last of bare-fisted fighting, the 1880s was a time brimming of savagery and brilliance. Coca-Cola had coke in it. Sheriff Wyatt Earp was a real guy gunning down outlaws at the O.K. Corral. The Brooklyn Bridge was built, but no…
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Illustration of Boston round bottles with title text
October 12, 2018

Labeling Your Boston Round Bottle
Did you know that glass is both a liquid and a solid? Yup. Molecularly, it’s both! And to make glass, you just need sand, liquid sand. If you heat sand hot enough, it melts, turns clear and cools into glass. So when you are holding a glass jar, you’re basically holding the beach…which is kind…
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Sttark's Guide to Using a Spot White Layer
August 30, 2018

Sttark's Guide to Using a Spot White Layer
Article Updated June 1, 2023 Prime Time In the world of custom label printing, there are many different names for the same thing. You may have heard the terms “underprinting”, “base white”, or “underwhite.” In our neck of the woods, we call it “spot white.” In the simplest terms, spot white is a primer layer…
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O'Douds hair care labels printed on Black Vellum
July 26, 2018

I Am Black Vellum
Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been eagerly anticipating the day we get to unveil our newest material addition, and it’s finally here! The newcomer is a suave specialty paper with a suave name: Black Vellum. We wanted to give the material a proper introduction, but decided we would let Black Vellum speak for itself. The floor…
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Recycled Kraft Paper Labels
July 16, 2018

Recycled Kraft Paper Labels
Do you need custom printed labels that are on an eco-friendly substrate? Our Kraft material is made from 100% PCW paper, so you can breathe easy knowing it is helping to create a sustainable packaging solution. This paper is an un-laminated paper, so we won’t put down a varnish, laminate or any other covering. The…
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Custom Label Graphic Design
April 11, 2018

Sttark's Guide to Preparing Your Custom Label File for Printing
Even with the least competitive of souls, there is something so deeply instilled in us, so primal, so paramount, that we have to, and I mean have to, try and get all of the groceries up the steps and into the house in one trip. Bags rip, oranges roll, and muscles reach a true max,…
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