Min. 100 units · 3–5 days
Pressure Sensitive Labels
Custom Labels
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Bespoke pet Labels manufactured to order, with material and finish chosen around how the product ships.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Pet Labels hold labelling on pet food and pet product packaging. That is the starting point for the specification, because flexible packs need a conformable face stock. A stiff label on a bag wrinkles and lifts at the corners.
In service they are used for pet food and accessory retail where pack formats vary widely.
Pet Labels are specified for pet food and accessory retail where pack formats vary widely. Flexible packs need a conformable face stock. A stiff label on a bag wrinkles and lifts at the corners.
A conformable synthetic face for flexible packs; standard paper is adequate on rigid containers.
The options we would consider for this format are below; flexible packs need a conformable face stock. A stiff label on a bag wrinkles and lifts at the corners.
Feeding guidance and ingredient information are both required and both take considerable space.
Digital label press, Flexography, Screen printing for heavy ink lay are all available for this format. Run length usually decides which is cheapest: digital removes the plate cost on short quantities, offset and flexo overtake it at volume.
Four things drive a quote more than anything else: the quantity, the print route, the board grade and the number of finishing passes. Dimensions matter too, but usually through how efficiently the shape nests on the press sheet.
Prices start from $0.30 per piece for large-volume orders. If a cheaper route exists we say so at quoting rather than after the invoice.
Feeding guidance and ingredient information are both required and both take considerable space.
The finishes below are quoted line by line. Each is an additional pass, so dropping one is a real saving rather than a rounding difference.
Sized to the pack, which in pet food is frequently a large bag rather than a small container.
Send the contents rather than a box size. The label is specified as if the pack were rigid, when a filled bag changes shape constantly.
Supply vector artwork with a clearly marked cut line as a separate spot colour, and hold text 2 mm inside the die.
Supply a print-ready PDF or vector file with fonts outlined and images at 300 dpi. Our prepress team checks every file before a proof is issued. On a die-cut face the check that matters most is clearance between live copy and the cut edge.
Tell us what goes inside, how many you need and when. Those three answers are enough for us to specify and price the job properly.
You approve the quote, we send the dieline, prepress proofs it, and production follows. The proof stage is where changes are still free.
We can produce a plain unprinted sample so you can check the fit and structure of pet labels before committing.
Sample costs are normally credited against the production order.
Reference
| Product | Pet Labels |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Labels |
| Construction | Label |
| Facestock | BOPP film or uncoated paper |
| Adhesive | Permanent, removable or freezer-grade |
| Supplied as | Rolls on core, or sheets |
| Materials | White BOPP film, Clear BOPP film, Textured uncoated paper, Estate label paper |
| Printing | Digital label press, Flexography, Screen printing for heavy ink lay |
| Finishes | Gloss laminate, Matte laminate, Foil stamping, Spot UV, Textured varnish |
| Minimum order | Minimum order is 100 units on any format, and unit cost falls sharply as the quantity rises. |
| Lead time | 3 to 5 business days after artwork approval |
| Shipping | Across the US, UK, Canada and Australia |
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Sized to the pack, which in pet food is frequently a large bag rather than a small container.
A label sized for a rigid container is applied to a flexible bag, where it wrinkles as the bag flexes.
Specified for pet food and accessory retail where pack formats vary widely.
Flexible packs need a conformable face stock. A stiff label on a bag wrinkles and lifts at the corners.
This format sits in our custom labels range, alongside 15 other made-to-order formats.
Answers
Specification, minimums and lead times for pet labels.
On offset and flexo we hold the ink formulation, which gives a tight match run to run. Digital has a wider tolerance. If exact consistency across repeat runs matters more than short-run economics, we will quote the litho route.
It matters more than most buyers expect. Adhesive keys differently to glass, coated card, matte plastic and cold or damp surfaces. Tell us the substrate and the application temperature and we will match the adhesive.
Yes. We can send a plain unprinted sample so you can check the fit and structure, or a printed prototype for colour and finish. Sample costs are normally credited against the production order. A plain sample answers fit and structure; a printed one answers colour. On pet labels it is usually fit that is worth checking first.
Send the current specification or a physical sample and we will quote to match it rather than proposing an alternative you would then have to re-approve internally. A physical sample tells us more than a specification sheet — board caliper and coating are usually described loosely and measured exactly.
All 50 US states, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, on the same timeline everywhere: 3 to 5 business days of production after artwork approval, then 5 to 7 business days in transit. Every run is made to order and shipped directly to your address rather than pulled from stock, so you receive current production rather than whatever has been sitting in a warehouse. Freight is costed separately by weight, volume and destination. Roll-form work travels well and takes very little space, so freight is rarely the deciding cost on this format even at high quantities.
Every run is cut to your dimensions — there are no stock sizes here. Send the product measurements rather than a box size and we will build the label around them, then send a dieline template you can design onto.
We issue a dieline template sized to your product, prepress checks your artwork against it, and a proof comes back for sign-off. Nothing runs until you approve that proof, and labels then take 3 to 5 business days.
Yes. Once a first run is approved we hold the board, structure, dimensions, print method and finishes against your account, so a reorder references the same specification exactly rather than being re-derived. That includes the ink formulation, which is what keeps a brand colour consistent between runs rather than drifting a shade each time.
Recycled grades are available across most of the substrates we run for labels. Recycled content, kerbside recyclability and certified compostability are three different claims though, so tell us which one you intend to print.
A print-ready PDF or a vector file, with fonts outlined and any raster images at 300 dpi at final size. We supply the dieline to design onto, and prepress checks bleed, safe area and crease clearance before issuing a proof. On a die-cut face, keep live copy clear of the cut edge — a small amount of movement on the die is normal and copy set to the edge will lose it on some of the run.
A flat 100 units on any format. Most labels in this range are quoted from 100 units upward because unit cost falls sharply above that, but the minimum exists so you can validate a structure first.
3 to 5 business days after artwork approval, plus freight. Label runs with applied finishes can take longer because each finish is a separate pass, and we confirm a firm date in writing with the quote.
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Send the dimensions and quantity you need. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.