Deposit Return Scheme Labels: What Happens to Old Stock?
The deposit return scheme starts 1 Oct 2027. What happens to drinks and labels made before launch, plus new barcodes, the DRS logo and key dates.
How To Load, Set and Troubleshoot a Date Labelling Gun
How To Load, Set and Troubleshoot a Date Labelling Gun A date labelling gun is one of the simplest tools in any food business, right up until it prints crooked, smudges, or jams halfway through a batch. Almost every fault has the same handful of causes, and none of them needs an engineer. The short…
Registered Barcode or Your Own? When You Need To Buy One
Registered Barcode or Your Own? When You Need To Buy One A registered barcode is not always necessary, and knowing when you need one saves both money and a great deal of trouble. The answer depends entirely on where the product will be scanned. The short answer. If the product only ever gets scanned inside…
AI Label Design: How To Get a Usable Concept From ChatGPT
AI Label Design: How To Get a Usable Concept From ChatGPT AI label design has gone from novelty to genuinely useful in the recent months of 2026. You can now describe a label in plain English and get back something that looks like a finished product. That is a huge opportunity, but it is also…
Drinks Label Design: What Makes a Bottle Get Picked Up
Drinks Label Design: What Makes a Bottle Get Picked Up Good drinks label design has about three seconds to work. That is roughly how long a shopper spends scanning a shelf before their hand moves, and in that time your label has to do the entire job of persuasion. The short answer to what makes…
Retail Price Labelling: How To Keep Product Pricing Clear And Consistent
Retail Price Labelling: How To Keep Product Pricing Clear And Consistent Inconsistent retail price labelling causes real problems on the shop floor. A customer who picks up a product expecting one price and finds a different one at the till is not a happy customer. Clear, consistent retail price labelling is not a back-office detail;…
How Much Do Labels Cost?
How Much Do Labels Cost? How much do labels cost is a complex question. It is easy to think it is just the material but there are loads of other factors that influence how much labels cost. In simple terms, it’s not simple. How Much Do Labels Cost: Units The first thing to grasp is…
Label Printer Running Costs: What You Actually Pay Per Label
Label Printer Running Costs: What You Actually Pay Per Label Label printer running costs rarely appear in the buying decision, which is odd, because over five years they dwarf the purchase price. A printer that costs a few hundred pounds can quietly consume several thousand in consumables and parts. The short answer: for most businesses,…
How To Get a Barcode For Retail: GS1, EAN-13 and What It Costs
How To Get a Barcode For Retail: GS1, EAN-13 and What It Costs Getting a barcode for retail is the step that catches out most new product launches. You have the product, you have the packaging, and then a buyer asks for your GTIN, and you discover barcodes are not something you simply print. The…
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Peel and Reveal Labels: When You Need One and What They Cost
Peel and Reveal Labels: When You Need One and What They Cost Peel and reveal labels solve a specific problem: you have more information to display than the pack has room for. Rather than shrinking the text until nobody can read it, you add a second printed surface underneath the first. The short answer on…
Desktop Label Printers vs Industrial Label Printers
Desktop Label Printers vs Industrial: Which Do You Actually Need Choosing between desktop label printers and industrial label printers usually comes down to one number: how many labels you print in a day. Get it wrong in either direction and it costs you, either in a printer that wears out early or in capacity you…
Unit Pricing on Shelf Labels
Unit Pricing on Shelf Labels: What UK Retailers Must Show Unit pricing is the part of shelf edge labelling that retailers most often get wrong, and it is the part enforcement officers look at first. It is the price per kilogram, per litre or per item that lets a shopper compare a 400g jar against…
