Label Ink Selection Guide: Substrate, Process, Environment & Cost

06/27/2026

Picking the right label printing ink isn't about grabbing whatever's on the shelf. Six factors shape the decision 鈥?and getting any one of them wrong shows up fast on press or in the field. 1. Substrate Type and Properties This is the...

Self-Adhesive Label Printing: Flexo, Die-Cut & Plate Guide

06/23/2026

Self-adhesive (pressure-sensitive) labels use two main paper substrate types, each requiring a different printing approach. The first type is a paper substrate combined with an adhesive coating 鈥?typically an activated glue formulation...

Offset vs Flexo Label Printing: Quality, Cost, and Substrate Guide

06/09/2026

Offset and flexography both produce labels, but they do it through fundamentally different mechanics — and the right choice depends on run length, substrate, quality requirement, and who is running the press. Here is how they compare on ...

Inkjet Digital Label Printing: Drupa 2008 to EagleJet L1000

06/07/2026

Digital printing's acceleration in the late 2000s was not merely faster than traditional print — it was the only printing segment showing meaningful growth. By Drupa 2008, two categories of inkjet printing had reached commercial maturity...

Inkjet Printing as Mainstream: Technology, Forecast, and Applications

06/06/2026

At the 11th Beijing International Printing Information Exchange Conference in 2008, three of eighteen speakers focused on a single technology: inkjet printing. Yang Bin, vice president of Beijing Founder Electronics, made an assertion th...

Cold Foil Registration: Label Printing Technical Solutions

06/02/2026

Cold foil stamping on labels has two things going for it: the process is simple and the throughput is high. But getting the foil pattern to land exactly where the print design says it should — registered cold foil — is still a hard probl...

Label Printing Scumming: Resin Plate, Ink, and Speed Fixes

05/31/2026

Self-adhesive label printing has a particular vulnerability: fine text — 8-point and below — fills in as ink dries in the narrow spaces between strokes, merging characters into illegible blobs. The immediate cause is ink drying too fast ...

Narrow Web Flexo Printing: 5 Common Label Faults & Fixes

05/23/2026

Narrow web flexo presses are the workhorses of the label industry. Fast, versatile, and capable of results that rival gravure and offset at a fraction of the makeready cost — when they're dialed in. But "dialed in" is the operative phras...