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Raising the bar(code)

Looking for another way to engage customers, and get them thinking about current and possible improvements to labels and packaging? Talk barcodes. A staple in today’s inventory, order tracking and production control arenas, barcodes are a specialty area that can ...

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Health and Beauty products: Joy of quality versus quantity

Typically, boutique health and beauty product manufacturers own an advantage over their mass-quantity counterparts: ability to concentrate on label quality given that they’re not printing gazillions of them as economically as possible. Enticing your customers to spend a bit more ...

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Durable Label Decisions Deserve thorough Vetting

The old adage, “Loose lips sink ships” is very applicable to the label printing industry. Seemingly small discrepancies in terminology to describe one label type versus another can prove problematic. This is evident when distinguishing the two “durable” options: weatherproof ...

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Service industries blooming in spring

April showers will not only bring May flowers, but an exploding demand for service industries who are connected to the outdoors in some form or fashion. Consider customers and prospects most in need of outdoor-related labels and the like. What ...

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Spring will be sprung before you know it

From Easter through the transition into summer, label sales will bloom for everything from branded water bottles tied to outdoor events to flagship sun protection products offered by nutraceuticals companies. Pick a vertical market, and you’ll likely see opportunities everywhere. ...

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It’s 2017 catalog time!

Detailing our complete offerings, the digital catalog gives US and Canadian distributors a single-source partner for all things label, custom stamp and promotional products related. Besides being a complete collection of our products and services, however, the unbranded catalog can ...

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Discount Labels, Lancer Label merger effective Jan. 1

Sometimes 1+1 really does equal 3. Such is the case with the New Year merger of Discount Labels and Lancer Label. The combined companies will move forward under the Discount Labels name. Customers will benefit from the strengths and expanded ...

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Update appearances for spring with vibrant process color labels

I know, I know…it’s not even officially winter yet and here we go talking about spring. Depending on your weather conditions and response to minimal daylight, the vibrancy, renewal and warmth that spring signifies may be a welcome diversion right ...

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Custom consecutive number labels fill conventional, creative roles

Consecutive number labels once required letterpresses that printed one a time. Today, digital printing quickly fulfills many needs using a wide selection of inks, stocks, shapes, adhesives, and sizes. Add variable data options to change up text and/or graphics. It’s ...

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Reliable performance, expertise and support drive your success, and ours

Our #1 job is helping you help your customers and prospects. It’s a guiding principle on which we’ve built Discount Labels for 50 years and today it’s more important than ever before. Product quality is a given among all successful ...

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