Best Solution for Bag Labels

[Breifne]

I'm working with our graphic designer on laying out our bag design. We're going to use labels on the bottom of the front side to accommodate the large variety of coffees that will be rotating through the roastery.

I'm thinking printing the labels ourselves from a really nice label printer from a file in Adobe Illustrator is the way to go. Any reason this doesn't make sense?

 

[peterjschmidt]

For me, if the cost per label is even close via a printing service, I'll go with them rather than worry about a printer/ink/paper, and take the time to do it.

The larger label on the front of my bags has a blank box at the bottom for the coffee origin, and I print of small-ish address return labels for that small box. Then I have a 2x4 glossy label for the back with my cupping notes/flavor description that print off on a laser.

 

[namballe]

as long as you don´t cut them out by hand i had my labels digitally printed in 4 color process on textured adhesive stock. then had them cut on a large guillotine cutter. or you can opt for the die cut labels and print 8-up for example. if you want quality, go with traditional printing and get them uv coated ($)

 

[slurp]

Skip the whole label process and get printed bags.

 

[Breifne]

Skip the whole label process and get printed bags.

I am going to get custom printed bags, but I'll likely have dozens of different coffees rotating through my roastery over the course of time. There's no way to (affordably) have a bag manufacturer print the quantity required for each individual coffee, is there?

 

[PinkRose]

I've been to several coffee roasters who have custom printed labels that have a space where they write the name of the coffee on the bag. (with a Sharpie marker).

I ask for a pound of a certain coffee, and they write the name of the coffee and the date on the bag and put the roasted coffee into the bag as I'm standing there watching them.

 

[chast]

Go with Rose, that is what we do......leave a blank space and right the name

 

[namballe]

in small production, labels are the way to go. easy enough to go into your adobe illustrator file and change things. i have 4 different labels made up: whole bean, ground, 250 gr and 500 gr.and they look more personal :razz: here's mine

 

[Ronc23]

I have 3 labels that we're professionally done...two of them are my standard and the third is a rotating origin where I write on the label. It works well for now given level of production and cost to produce. I use a local printer that pre cuts them for me so I just stick them on the bag.