White-label design for label printers
We set up your customers’ label and packaging artwork on your dielines, and design the label when there isn’t one. Cut lines, white ink, foil and varnish each go on their own spot-color layer, and barcodes go in at a size that scans. Files come back in 24 hours on average, under your name, for $699 a month.
No contract, no setup fee, pause or cancel anytime.
A brand owner sends a label made in Canva: RGB, no bleed, the barcode stretched to fit, and artwork sized for a jar they measured with a ruler. You can’t plate it, and explaining why takes longer than fixing it.
Forward the file with your dieline or roll spec. We rebuild it for your press and send back a file that goes through your preflight.
The jobs you get
- Customer art onto your dieline. Placed on your template, with bleed past every cut line and text kept clear of the edge.
- Clear and metallic stock. A white ink layer built as a named spot color, wherever the design needs to be opaque.
- Foil, spot UV and varnish. Each on its own spot-color layer, ready for plates or screens.
- Barcodes. UPC and EAN codes rebuilt as vectors at a scannable size, with the quiet zone left clear.
- Wrap labels for bottles, jars and tins. The width worked out from the container, with the overlap allowed for.
- A range of flavors or scents. One layout carried across every variant, so the set reads as a range on the shelf.
- New label and carton designs. Designed from a brief, on your dieline from the first draft.
What comes back
- A print-ready PDF on your dieline, with the dieline on a non-printing spot-color layer
- CMYK and named spot colors, with nothing left in RGB
- White, foil and varnish as separate layers, named the way your press room names them
- Fonts outlined and images embedded
- The layered Illustrator file
- A proof for your customer to approve, with nothing on it about us
Standard sizes for this work: product label sizes, jar label sizes, candle label sizes, wine label sizes, and every print size.
Your customers never know we exist.
Every file ships under your name. No watermark, no credit line, no mention of us anywhere on the artwork or the invoice.
An address on your domain
We’ll work from an email address on your domain if you want one.
Ownership on delivery
Full ownership transfers to you on delivery, source files included.
Your trade area stays yours
We never contact your customers, and we never work for a shop inside your trade area without telling you first.
The plan is the same for every shop: unlimited requests, one at a time, for $699 a month. Without the plan, file fixes start at $10 a file. What the plan includes, and what it replaces.
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Questions from label printers
- Can you work to our press’s specs?
- Yes. Send your dieline format, bleed, minimum type and line sizes, ink limit, and what you call the white, foil and varnish layers. Every file is set up that way.
- Do you supply the barcode numbers?
- No. The brand gets its numbers from GS1. We turn the number into a vector barcode at the right size and confirm the check digit; the free check digit calculator does the same sum.
- Do you step and repeat?
- We deliver one-up artwork on your dieline unless you ask for a layout. Step and repeat and imposition normally stay in your prepress.
- What about ingredient lists and nutrition panels?
- We set the text you or your customer supply, at a size that can be read. Whether the wording meets the rules for that product is for the brand to confirm.
Other kinds of shop: sign shops, screen printers, DTF and apparel decorators, commercial printers, embroidery shops. The plan, the price and how it compares: white-label design for print shops.
Stop sending labels back to the customer.
Fifteen minutes. Bring a file you had to reject this month and we’ll show you what would have come back.