Our Services

Label Design | Label On-Demand | Pre/Post Production Runs | Art/Pre Press
Design Agreement | International Credit

If you are looking for a new label design or a redesign of your current label, our artists will be glad to help. And we offer the best deal around:

If you like it, you buy it; if not, there's no charge.

We can make that offer because of our artists' tremendous talents. With your input, they will design a label that grabs your audience's attention, informs your customer and instills confidence in your product.


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To design your label, we will need to know:

• Who your market is

• All about the container the label is to go on. The best way to get us the information is to mail us a sample of the container, or you can just tell us what you have in mind. Give us guidance-a stick-figure drawing or a sentence on the label theme. (e.g., 'natural' or 'gourmet' or 'healthy woman on bike').

• Your product's ingredients and what happens to the product after the label is applied. This is what you'll be telling us when you complete the "Label Art" form with our customer service staff. From this information, we will be able to judge the best design, material, adhesive and shape for your label.

• Next, send a sample of your product's container. We will return the container with a high-definition color laser proof of the label design we create for you.

How To Send Us Art

All artwork must be submitted with a color proof.

Hardware (Computers)

We use Macintosh computers (“MACs”), not IBM computers (“PCs”). A file created on one can be used by the other only if it is saved in a compatible file format. Any file supplied to us must be compatible with our MACs, otherwise, we can’t use it.

Software (Programs)

We prefer files in Adobe Illustrator and/or Adobe Photoshop (any version). Although we have most of the standard graphics software, all of our files are made and saved in Illustrator and Photoshop, and things go most smoothly if the files you submit are in the same software.


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Custom Programs

Stocking and storing labels can be an area of concern for customers. It gets to be a large-budget item when you combine the costs of storage space and having obsolete or aged labels. A number of programs are available from Blue Ribbon to help the economics of your label usage:

• Consignment labels
• Labels on demand
• Contract pricing

One of these may be just what you need. We’d be glad to discuss them with you.

Consignment

Consignment is a new concept in the world of labels. With this system, we make your labels and send them to you to stock in your warehouse. When you take some out of stock to use, you notify us. Only then do we bill for the labels. If you are interested in finding out how this might work for you, please e-mail or call us at (800) 433-4974.

Labels on Demand

Zero inventory works well for companies with extensive product lines. For labels-on-demand


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customers, we keep on hand the materials needed to produce your label, give you priority press availability and also stock some finished inventory.

These are some of the ways we can guarantee that you get super fast turn-around time from the moment you call. Typically, by the time you need the next batch of labels, we’re ready to deliver them.

Contract Pricing

When you use many different labels over a year and order them at different times and in different quantities, contract pricing may be just what you need. We will develop a contract price so you know your true costs of labeling.

Worried about dealing with an unknown company you found on the Internet?

Make sure your labels are exactly what you want with a Blue Ribbon pre-production run: we'll run a hundred labels and send them to you for approval before we run the entire order.

This great service is available to our ongoing customers as well as our new customers who are working with us for the first time.

Inspection / Rewind

Finished labels go to our inspection/rewind area, where three simultaneous processes occur:
• Every label in the roll is inspected
• Labels are rewound in a format appropriate for how they are to be applied.
• Each order is given a 100% accurate count.

Inspection personnel review each label sent as we strive for perfection. Knowing how much rides on their thoroughness, they have become expert at vigilance. In the almost two decades of production, not a single recall of any Blue Ribbon label has been made.

Depending on your needs, finished labels pass through one to three inspection stations, using Arpeko and Web techniques inspection equipment. At each station, strobe lights “freeze” every label so that imperfections -- anything from a slight smudge to a broken letter -- can be picked out. These labels are flagged for later destruction. Each station is in an enclosed area and only one job at a time is handled; this is done for security and for cleanliness.

At one of our “machine section” inspection station, a TV camera check each and every label… assuring 100% perfection without the possibility of human error.

At the same time that labels are being inspected, they are being rewound and prepared for shipping. Rewind makes sure that your labels come to you in a format compatible with your applicating equipment. For each order, the job sheet notes all critical information relating to how the labels will eventually be applied. This data lets our personnel know the correct size of spool to use, how many labels to include on the roll to


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What's inside a bottle is just stuff until you add the label. Then suddenly, wham! -- you're communicating with your market. Design, color and text all work together to catch the buyer's eye. No one does it better than Blue Ribbon.

Our Art Department boasts the latest in graphic design equipment and five truly talented artists. They are expert at listening to customers, then taking the ideas and turning them into beautiful, effective labels. This process requires both creativity and in-depth knowledge of the special parameters of label art.


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For those who already have artwork, the Art Department is set up to receive your files electronically. Or they will take the physical artwork and recreate it on computer.

If you choose Blue Ribbon to help with your label design our typical charges range from $150 to $400. That's about 10 percent of what a commercial design firm might charge. The design will then become your property, to use as you see fit.

If you do not choose us to manufacture your labels, just return the design at no charge. The design will remain the property of Blue Ribbon.



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