Label Showcase: Pushing The Boundaries With High5

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For almost 20 years, High5 have provided the very best in sports nutrition products; enabling both fitness enthusiasts and professional competitors to achieve the best possible results. The company, which is run by athletes who regularly compete in a variety of sporting events, has rightly earned the reputation as an industry leader, with High5 products [...]

Coca-Cola finish possibly the biggest ever digital label printing project! @CocaCola_GB #shareacoke

Millions of personalised Coca Cola labels are hitting the shelves, all printed digitally!

Hat tip to Labels and Labelling Magazine for their exclusive on this story which may be one of the biggest digital labelling projects ever. By pre printing the labels in high volume in ‘Coca-Cola red’ using conventional flexo and gravure, costs were able to be kept to a minimum whilst adding the benefit of variable [...]

Announcing a major comparative trial of digital label technologies when exposed to long term UV daylight

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Will it fade? Its taken some effort to get prepared, but we are excited to announce the commencement of a major long term comparative trial of the lightfastness of different digital and flexo label printing technologies.  The results will take some time, but we believe this will become a definitive study on the lightfastness of all [...]

Do you need professional creative design for your new labels or cartons?

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  Yesterday we announced that we now offer an exciting service to offer creative design services for labels and cartons.  So many of our customers need professional creative design assistance to get the most from their packaging that we have expanded our offer to accommodate this requirement. We will continue to support customers in getting the best from their current artwork [...]

Farewell to Stan on his retirement

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Last night we said a sad farewell to Stan as he retired on the eve of his 65th birthday. Stan has been running hotfoil label printing machines at Mercian Labels for nearly a decade now, and our records show that he has printed 28,117,479 labels over that time.  Thats a lot of happy customers! A great [...]

Prestigious award for the Mercian Labels’ website www.stickers.co.uk

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We are delighted to have been awarded the prestigious Interactive Media “Best in Class” Award for our website www.stickers.co.uk, focussing on custom printed stickers. We spend a lot of effort making our online presence as high a quality as possible, and awards such as this confirm the high quality of our websites.      

Label Showcase: Looking Great With Suntana Spray Tan

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Personal grooming is a rapidly expanding market, with more money spent on health and beauty products than ever before. At Mercian Labels we have many customers that fall into this area and who have specific labelling requirements dependant on their products. One of our most recent clients from the health and beauty industry is Suntana, [...]

Press coverage of Mercian Labels’ new digital cartons products in DLP and Printweek

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We had a great time at the Packaging Innovations Show at the NEC in February, the write ups of which are now hitting the desks of packaging professionals across Europe. In particular the Digital Labels & Packaging Magazine writeup from the show (PDF)  on our digitally printed cartons promotion with cute handbags designed by Pillbox is well [...]

Video – new Xeikon digitally printed covert taggants for brand protection of labels and cartons

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This video shows one of the enhanced brand protection technologies we offer at Mercian Labels, enabling brands to authenticate products in the field using a hand held device to prove if the printed image is yours, or not without forensic level laboratory examination. This sophisticated technology, based on features provided by Brandwatch Technologies, Xeikon and Mercian [...]

New product – digitally printed bottle collar ‘ collarettes ‘

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In the latest of a series of UK firsts, we are now able to manufacture digitally printed bottle collars, or collarettes as they are sometimes known in a unique process that digitally prints, varnishes, cuts and creases in a single pass saving significant time and cost.  These collarettes are used to as ‘on pack’ promotions [...]