Labeling Playbook
It’s essential to keep your ear to the ground in packaging practices, and this handy, must-have PDF e-book will help you stay ahead of the curve. You’ll turn to the Labeling Playbook for everything from basic branding and packaging strategies to the best materials, technologies, and machines for the job.
From design to deployment, you’ll find best practices and helpful hints—and pitfalls to avoid—on your current or future labeling project. Leading packaging experts from every part of the development process have contributed their insights, and their collective wisdom will guide your steps in the right direction.
Experts
Sourced in this e-book
Topics covered (among others)
Design strategies
- Ten guidelines for effective front panel design
- Top-level considerations when revitalizing packaging
- Consumer research and its limitations
- Rethinking operations from the back end forward
Materials and technologies
- Latest labeling material and presentation trends
- Making the most of labeling technology trends
- Shrink sleeve labels – best practices and production tips
- Top 12 factors in the digital printing equation
- Implementing brand protection strategies – top considerations
Label development
- Best practices in label development
- Managing label production
- What to look for in a label converter
- Nine considerations for specifying labels
- Common ways labeling projects can fail
Labeling machinery
- Five labeling equipment trends
- Seven best practices for buying labeling machinery
- Five tips for working with suppliers on projects
- Best practices for buying heat shrink labeling machinery
- Tips for buying case labeling systems
- Vendor evaluation methodology for labeling equipment
- Roadmap for a successful labeling factory acceptance test
- Determining when to rebuild or replace a labeling machine
- Four common pitfalls to avoid on label machinery projects
Bonus! Labeling photo gallery
New examples of winning label designs hand-selected by our editors (all-new packages updated for 2013).
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