Label & sticker printing

What we produce

• Product labels for food, retail and industrial goods
• Promotional and campaign stickers
• Cut-to-shape labels using a custom die
• Sheet and sticker sets
• Seals, tags and pack inserts

Start with where it goes

The first question on a label is not the design — it is the surface it will be applied to, and what happens to it afterwards. A label going onto a glass jar that gets wiped down behaves differently from one going onto a corrugated outer that gets stacked. Tell us the container, the contents and the conditions, and the material choice follows from that.

Humidity and cold storage

In Sri Lanka the climate is part of the specification rather than an afterthought. A label that sits perfectly in an air-conditioned showroom can lift at the edges after a month in an unconditioned store room, and anything going into chilled or frozen storage has to adhere to a surface that may already be damp when the label is applied. Both are material and adhesive questions rather than printing ones. Tell us where the product is stored and how it travels, and the stock is matched to that at the quotation stage instead of being discovered on the second print run.

Shape and cut

Rectangular labels cut straight from the sheet. Anything else — rounded corners, an outline following the logo, a die-cut window — needs a cutting forme made to that shape. Once the forme exists it can be reused for repeat orders, so a shape you expect to reprint is worth committing to properly the first time.

Finish

Lamination is the usual protection: gloss keeps colours bright on product photography, matt reduces glare and gives a more restrained surface. On premium goods Spot UV or foil on the brand element lifts it clear of the rest of the label without changing the layout.

Labels alongside packaging

If the label and the carton are being produced together, print them together. The brand colour is set once, the same finish can run across both, and there is one specification rather than two that have to be reconciled later.

Labels for export markets

Product labels leaving Sri Lanka often have to carry a second language, and for Middle East markets that usually means Arabic. We typeset and proofread Arabic, Sinhala and Tamil in-house rather than placing supplied artwork and trusting that it is right — which matters more on a label than almost anywhere else, because a label found to be wrong has to be reprinted and reapplied to stock that is already packed.

Arabic reads right to left, so it does not drop into the space the English occupied. Panel order, alignment and the position of mandatory pack information all move with it, and that is a decision taken before the label is laid out. Send the full label text in every language it has to carry at the start, along with anything the destination market requires to appear on the pack.

Where the labels are one part of a wider shipment — cartons, inserts and printed outers as well — export packaging and labelling covers how the set is specified together.

Checking colour before the run

The workshop is on Grandpass Road in Colombo 14. Where a label carries a brand colour that has to match something already in circulation, it is worth looking at a printed sheet under ordinary light before the full quantity runs. Screens overstate saturation, and a colour that reads correctly on a monitor can sit noticeably flatter under matt lamination.

What to include in your enquiry

• Finished label size, and the shape if it is not rectangular
• Quantity, and how many different designs are in the set
• What the label is applied to, and the conditions it faces
• Whether it is supplied on sheets or as individual pieces
• Lamination or other finishing

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