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Label Subscription Service

Label Subscription Service

Services

Join our label subscription service and get labels automatically delivered to your door.  Labels can’t be more simple.

Benefits of a Label Subscription Service

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Order your thermal ribbons and labels
  • Never run out of labels again
  • No need for complicated reordering – a simple scan, confirm where they’re being delivered to and your labels are on their way to you. 
  • Pay for just the labels you need
  • If you use thermal ribbons – we can include them in your subscription too!  We’ll calculate the optimum number of thermal ribbons to match your label usage.
  • Label Subscription Service works with purchase orders and order confirmations are emailed to your purchasing department.

How Does Your Label Subscription Service Work?

  1. We provide a quote for our label subscription service
  2. You like our quote and sign up to our annual subscription
  3. When you’re close to running out of labels, you scan our reorder code
  4. Confirm your name and where the labels are being shipped to
  5. You get a confirmation email and we ship you your labels
  6. We charge your account monthly
  7. We regularly review your label usage, adjust your subscription and agree what you need in each label shipment.

Simple.

Interested?

We just need a few bits of information so we can provide you with a quote.  The more information you can provide about your labels the better.

Please give us a few hours to respond.  We may need to ask more questions about the type of print you need or the frequency of order.  The more information you can provide us about your labels the better. 

Updated: 15 Feb 2021.

Thermal Transfer Ribbons

Thermal Transfer Ribbons

Products

Expert Labels supply thermal transfer ribbons for all the major brands of thermal label printer – and most of the lesser known brands.  From Armor to Zebra branded thermal ribbons,  contact us for impartial, expert advice and up to date pricing.

Wax Ribbons

Wax Resin Ribbons

  • Huge range of stock ribbons available for next day delivery
  • Custom made thermal transfer ribbons to match your exact specifications – so you can optimise your operation and not waste ribbon
  • With more than 20 years working with thermal transfer ribbons, we can help you match the best value ribbon to go with your labels, so you get printed labels and tags that look and perform perfectly
  • We’ll help you choose thermal ribbons that won’t damage or wear out your thermal barcode printer
  • We’ll help you source different coloured ribbons for your product labels
  • We supply branded ribbons as recommended by your thermal printer manufacturer
  • We supply compatible thermal transfer ribbons that will save you money
  • Use us to source wax, wax resin and resin ribbons to best suit your labels
  • Buy ribbons made to work with near edge (such as TEC and Avery Dennison) and flathead thermal printers
  • Thermal transfer ribbons for portable printers
  • Custom cores for thermal ribbons – 12.5mm or 25mm with or without notches – plastic or cardboard
  • Buy thermal transfer ribbon cartridges for the Zebra ZT420 printer from us
  • Ask us how to use silver or gold foil thermal ribbons to enhance the appeal of your product labels.

Learn how to match the right ribbon to your labels here.

Read more about wax ribbons here.

For prices and more information, visit our contact page. 

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Tags and Tickets

Special Offers

Looking for tags and tickets?

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Request A FREE Sample Of Our Products

We supply a variety of tags and tickets to suit any of your products.

About

Expert labels are specialists in tags for your products and tickets for your customers. From the low cost cardboard swing tag for retailers to scratch proof, water proof and tear proof tags for tough industrial uses.

We have more than twenty years experience making sure your tickets and tags are delivered on time to do the job they’re supposed to do, every time.

Complete our contact form to order your FREE sample pack of tickets and tags.

Visit our full website at: http://expertlabels.co.uk/for more information.

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Products:

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Plant Tags

Plant tags to withstand water and sun damage in a range of colours for printing through thermal or laser printers.

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Industrial Tags

Tough, tear proof industrial tags
to help track business processes or identify items.

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Customisable Tags

Card, customisable tags for
shop clothes tags.

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Ticket Printing

Ticket printing with holograms, scratch off panels and unique 1D barcoding and QR codes of numbers.

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Roll Tags

Tags on rolls, made to order
for flexible business needs.

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Swing Tags

Beautiful pre-printed, perforated swing tags that really sell your products.

Let’s talk technical

We supply tickets on rolls or sheets, either pre-printed or for overprinting with thermal or laser printers. We make perforated tags for retail or industrial use, heavy duty plastic tags that withstand tearing and scratching and tie on tags for plants, made in a variety of colours for printing through thermal or laser printers. We cut your tags to a wide range of shapes. Our tags and tickets are made from paper, card, HDPE, PE, Polyester, Vinyl or Tyvek. Our tickets and tags are made to feed from pack flat boxes or print from rolls. We print sequentially numbered, barcoded or in full colour for our customers. We work with our clients to build complex databases to print from.

Expert Labels

  • Have been supplying labels, tags, tickets, scanners and printers since 1994.
  • Use specialist digital printing equipment for full colour label, tag and ticket printing
  • Are trusted by many of Europe’s best known companies to delivery on time and to exacting standards of quality
  • Stand by our products with a money back guarantee

We work with organisations who need high quality tickets, tags and labels delivered on time and also value a supplier who provides end-to-end printing and scanning expertise.

Some of Our Clients

Some of the clients who trust us for their labels, tags, printers and scanners.

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Miles runs for Alzheimer’s Research UK

News

The managing director of Expert Labels Ltd, Miles Green, recently ran the Robin Hood Marathon for Dementia to boost funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK. He aimed to raise a couple of hundred pounds for the UK’s leading dementia research charity when he joined the crowd of runners pounding Nottingham’s streets.

Miles, 46, lives in Stowmarket with his wife and two boys. Along with being actively involved in the Air Training Corps, he owns a local company based in Bury St Edmunds. For over 20 years Miles has specialised in all things labelling and has recently rebranded the company, formerly known as Barcode Products Ltd to Expert Labels Ltd.

Miles explained his motivation for running the Robin Hood Marathon and supporting Alzheimer’s Research UK:
“Running a marathon was a goal I set myself to complete this year. I searched the internet and found the Nottingham run and decided to commit. Taking part in the Robin Hood Marathon gave me the ideal opportunity to raise much needed money for research into Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The charity is very close to my heart as my mother was recently diagnosed with dementia.

“My work colleagues were impressed with my training but my wife Mayumi kept saying I need to do more preparation! To keep active I would regularly run half marathons and I also swam a few times a week. Staying fit and healthy is very important to me. The thought of doing a full length marathon was daunting but it’s nothing compared to what people with dementia are going through.

“Having a positive focus helped me complete the course. Alzheimer’s Research UK does an incredible job and it’s a real privilege to be involved in this way. With the crowds cheering and the thought of my wife and children waiting for me at the finish line, it was genuinely amazing!”

It is estimated that over 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia today. Dementia poses one of the greatest threats to public health now and in the future but investment in research still lags far behind other serious diseases.

Miles finished the marathon in four and a half hours, raising nearly double what he expected to with over £420.

Three Tips to Keep Your Printer in Top Condition

News

No one printing more than a handful of labels a day would consider using anything other than a thermal printer such as Zebra, Intermec and Datamax. Thermal printers are fast, cheap to run, ideally suited to printing barcodes and extremely reliable, so much so, we’ve found ourselves working with printers more than ten years old.

Here are three things you can do to keep costs down, maintain quality and keep on printing:

Clean your printhead.

You MUST clean your printhead every time you change labels or ribbons. Labels leave an abrasive paste on your printhead which wears away the ceramic coating and eventually stops the printhead from working. Cleaning only takes a few seconds to do and will add years onto your printhead. Watch this 1 min 16 sec video from Zebra to see how. Click here for the youtube video. Call us on 01359 271 111 and ask for a FREE printhead cleaning pack.

Keep the temperature down.

Thermal printers use… heat to print with. The printhead melts the wax on the ribbon and an image appears. The higher the temperature, the faster the printhead burns out. You need to keep the printhead running as cool as possible. How do I reduce the print temperature? Open your label printing software and look under the page settings in the printer driver. Look for the darkness (or density) setting and experiment. Reduce the temperature to a point where it’s as low as possible to get quality print results. At the same time you can adjust the print speed. If you lower the print speed you can lower the printhead temperature.

Think Ribbon Width

Ribbons should overlap the labels by at least 3mm each side. Think of labels as being sandpaper. The printer ribbon provides the printhead with a soft plastic protection from the abrasive label material. Without that protection, the printhead will wear out where the label material is rubbing against the head. Call us on 01359 271 111 to find out what ribbon would suit you best.

Expert Labels Limited were known as Barcode Products until Octover 2015. We supply labels made from hundreds of different materials and thousands of different sizes. We understand label printing all the way through from choosing the best thermal printer, label design software to the best labels and ink combination designed to save your wallet as well as your printer.

Miles – Managing Director and Founder

Meet the Team

Miles is the founder and Managing Director of Expert Labels Ltd, setting up the business selling labels and printers in 1994. Miles lived overseas for more than 15 years – first in New Zealand and then in Japan, but is now based in our Suffolk office.  Most exotic work location – Tonga in the Pacific ocean.

In Miles’ spare time, he enjoys spending quality time with his wife and two sons and is also actively involved in the RAF Air Cadets.  He enjoys travelling and is a regular and keen runner – having actually completed a marathon.

Waterproof Labels

Products

At Expert Labels, we provide transparent stickers that are suitable for indoor or outdoor use which can offer great UV resistance and adhesive bond for life. Not only that, they can be completely waterproof if needed and suitable for freezing temperatures! Perfect for a wide variety of environments. Whether you need a transparent label for an FMCG product or for use in an extreme laboratory environment, we can supply you with the perfect labels. 

Waterproof labels categories

  • White Vinyl
  • Clear Vinyl Labels
  • Yellow Vinyl
  • Appliance Silver Vinyl
  • Void Labels
  • Tamper Evident Vinyl
  • Clear Labels with White Print

Waterproof label printing

  • Laser printing
  • Inkjet printing

Waterproof label sizes

These can be produced in a wide range of sizes and shapes that best fit your product. 

Why are transparent labels so important?

  • Our labels virtually disappear, only leaving the message visible. This ensures a professional look and finish to the product.
  • The polyester material prevents smearing and smudging.
  • The extra robust adhesive adheres to plastic, glass and metal.

If you would like a quote or a free sample for your transparent labels, give us a call on: 01359 271 111. Alternatively, you can fill out the form below and we will contact you.



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Transparent Labels

Products

Why are transparent labels so important?

  • Our labels virtually disappear, only leaving the message visible. This ensures a professional look and finish to the product.
  • The polyester material prevents smearing and smudging.
  • The extra robust adhesive adheres to plastic, glass and metal.

At Expert Labels, we provide transparent stickers that are suitable for indoor or outdoor use which can offer great UV resistance and adhesive bond for life. Not only that, they can be completely waterproof if needed and suitable for freezing temperatures! Perfect for a wide variety of environments. Whether you need a transparent label for an FMCG product or for use in an extreme laboratory environment, we can supply you with the perfect labels.

If you would like a quote or a free sample pack, please give us a call on: 01359 271 111. Alternatively, you can fill out the form below and we will contact you.

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Security Labels

Products

Security Labels are generally used for anti-counterfeiting, brand protection, tamper-evident seals and anti-pilferage seals. These combine a number of overt and covert features to make imitation difficult.

 

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Security Labels - genuine holographic
Security Labels - genuine holographic

These labels feature a hologram in the centre, embossed text, serial numbers, Guilloche patterns and a holographic background.  These are some of the overt features that make the label secure.  

We can supply you labels that contain covert security features.  Micro text – visible with a magnifying glass and nano text, visible with a microscope are ‘forensic’ features that help you confirm if your product is genuine or not.  Other covert features include textures, inks visible only under UV light, thermochromatic printing that appears with heat.

The use of security printing, holography, embossing, barcodes and custom printing etc. is common as they are used for validation, theft reduction and protection against counterfeit. They are also commonly used on ID cards, credit cards, packaging and other products such as clothing.

Security labels are expensive – if they were cheap, counterfeiters would copy them more readily.  Minimum quantities of labels are high – 25,000.

Expert Labels offer a wide variety of security labels at excellent prices. Call us on: 01359 271 111 for a FREE quote. Alternatively, please fill in the form below and we will contact you.

Roll Labels

Products

All of our Roll labels are made to order and can be produced in just a few days. The reason we do this is because we understand that our customers need different labels. This isn’t a “one size fits all” business.

Whether you want either thermal transfer (ribbon required) or direct thermal (no ribbon required) labels on a roll we can help you. We offer roll labels in a variety of colours, label sizes, label shapes, core sizes and materials i.e. matt, semi gloss, gloss, opaque and more. We also offer these roll labels with a choice of adhesives. If that isn’t enough, we also offer these labels pre printed or unprinted, whichever you require.

Give us a call today to find out more on: 01359 271 111. Alternatively, please fill out the form below and we will contact you. 

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