Custom Digital Labels
A True Concept in Action
Anchor Graphics’s custom digital labels are fast becoming the new standard, thanks to the great flexibility you get with digital printing. Custom digital label printing rivals the quality of the best conventional printers, while also allowing customers to get labels in a wide range of styles and sizes. Conventional printing takes time to set up and then to set up again to make changes.
The digital printing process makes it super easy to create runs of dozens or hundreds of thousands of custom labels or custom labels in multiple versions. For example, if you want custom labels in various languages, or if you want to label multiple lengths or sizes of one product, digital labels make an ideal choice.
High-Definition Digital
While custom labels are tangible goods, and digital seems soft, the term relates to the printing method. The HD Digital printing method is making them even more accessible to the public. Until recently, volume has played a role of less accessibility and royalty in the printing world.
While volume’s reign is here to stay, there are more options. Digital printing technology makes it more affordable and easier to create custom label designs with many variations in images or colors or different ID numbers and serial numbers. Variable printing on old technology is impossible or close to it.
How To Use Digital Labels
Product manufacturers have embraced digitally-printed custom labels because of the reduced cost and high quality. Digital labels are a viable option for just about any purpose in retail, industry, or institutional use, including:
- Food packaging and nutrition labeling
- Wine, spirits and beverage products
- Beauty, cosmetics and skin care lines
- Medical products, medical warnings
- Tobacco-related products, CBD oils
- City, school and university parking permits
Exceptional print quality is achievable with digital printing, at a cost that’s competitive with other print methods and a lower cost on low-volume custom label orders. Anchor Graphics’s printing technology offers quality equal to or higher than lithographic printing, meaning you don’t have to sacrifice quality when it comes to label material or ink, also.
Popular Custom Digital Labels Materials & More
At Anchor Graphics, we know our customers have diverse needs regarding materials, colors, and the physical printing of labels. Our HP Indigo printers can digitally print on various materials, at least as well as offset printing. Here are some of your printing options:
- Semi-gloss paper
- Polypropylene film materials
- A multitude of colors without additional cost
- UV varnish for more shine
- Spot white ink for opacity
- Variable data printing efficiencies
- Cost-effective short runs
- Die-cut or sheet label availability
Digital presses allow for shorter runs to be performed more economically because the designs reside in our printing software, which also allows us to print several versions of a custom label design with ease. Unlike mechanical printing, complex orders, such as ten combinations of label color and text, are easy to manage with digital technology.
Printing FAQs
New technology is taking over, offering digital label printing capabilities that outperform mechanical printing, requiring plates and cylinders. With digital printing technology, the days of flexographic printing are numbered.
- Digital printing now offers a faster and cheaper way to print custom labels in any volume.
- Anchor Graphics’s digital printing process is still a four-color process with multiple spot colors for custom labels with vibrant colors.
- Digital HD printing also makes it easy to print different versions of your custom labels. For example, custom labels printed in English and Spanish are easier to make than with mechanical printing.
- Our team can change colors or graphics from one printed piece to another, if needed by working from a database. We can even change each label to print consecutive numbers.
- At Anchor Graphics, we use HP Indigo presses to create rolls of labels and custom labels at low cost and with high speed in a wide variety of shapes for the fastest turnaround possible. We can print small quantities of any custom label design at a reasonable price, as well!
Need Design Help?
Our team of experts will guide you through the entire process, from selecting materials to creating a design, to ensure that your project is always perfect.