Best printer for product labels

[bossprint]

I have a roland xc 540 and a aqueous printer but I am wanting to do large runs of product labels. I am not sure if thermal or uv is the way to go. Or maybe even screen printing.

 

[jasonx]

What do you consider a large run of labels and at what size? What durability do you want? Indoor or outdoor?

 

[bossprint]

RUns of about 100,000 of labels about 2" x 3". They are going to be labels for candles and things like that. So inside but we want them to be nice and easy to apply.

 

[HaroldDesign]

Why not have a litho printer knock them out?

 

[G-Artist]

The cheapest way is to farm them out to a label company.

Those companies can do it for a fraction of your costs (giving you a reasonable profit for merely taking an order) and can provide the rolls/sheets set up for any label application machine.

The printer units used by those companies automatically die cut and weed so at the end of a run the labels are ready to be shipped.

 

[bossprint]

It is for intercompany and we will have several variations of the labels. We will want to print small runs of some variations too.

 

[J Hill Designs]

stouse or in house...

 

[jasonx]

You'll prob need an HP WS Indigo printer or similar. You can knock our small quantities or large quantities then.

You will also need a finishing system to go with it.