Author: Pete Howells

Ingredients Labelling Guide: Complete UK Compliance Guide Getting ingredients labelling wrong is one of the easiest ways to fall foul of Trading Standards. A missing additive, an undeclared compound ingredient,...

NHS Barcode Labels: GS1, Scan4Safety and What Suppliers Need to Know Patient safety is the reason NHS barcode labels matter - not process compliance for its own sake. When a...

Warehouse Barcode Labels: Materials, Formats and Getting It Right A label failure in a warehouse is not just an inconvenience. When a racking label peels, fades or fails to scan,...

Retail Barcodes: What UK Suppliers and Manufacturers Need to Know If your retail barcodes are refused at a supermarket distribution centre, it is a painful lesson. The goods were correct,...

EAN-13 Barcodes & GS1 Barcodes UK: What Every Business Needs to Know Pick up almost any product sold in a UK shop and you will find a row of black...

2D Barcode Labels: QR Codes, Data Matrix and How to Print Them Pull out your phone, open the camera, and point it at a product. Chances are, there's now a...

1D Barcodes Explained: Types, Uses, and How to Choose They're on every tin, bottle, and box in your kitchen cupboard. They're on the carton that arrived from your last online...

A Plain English Guide to Barcode Symbologies More than 30 different barcode symbologies are in active use today. Most people recognise the striped barcode on a supermarket tin or the...

Processing Sequence The manufacturing process for your order depends on the printing machinery we are using to fulfil your order. The email updates you receive will be triggered when your...

Traffic Light Food Labelling: A Guide for UK Food Producers Around two thirds of pre-packed products on UK supermarket shelves now carry traffic light food labelling. If you manufacture food...

Technical Support Free Technical Support for Customers Positive ID Labels are proud to offer free technical support to all our thermal label printing customers. So long as you are buying...

Label Direct License Transfer Read this full LabelDirect Transfer License guide and the FAQ section below before starting. Once the old computer is delicensed, you cannot interrogate the software for...