How many labels on a roll?

How increasing your label rolls only slightly, can HALF your downtime!

That’s a very bold claim, I hear you say!  It’s not magic or any special trickery, just maths….

Here’s a little known fact:  The larger the roll of labels becomes, the number of labels you get per roll increases significantly.  I don’t just mean proportionally, ie 50% bigger rolls don’t give 50% more labels NO, it’s better than that.  Much better.

Now, consider how many times your operators change the label rolls on your labellers or print & apply machines per day and work out the time to change them – not just the threading up time but the time to walk to stores, pick up another roll and have a chat about last night’s TV… then you start to get the picture!

Bigger IS better!

Let’s take an example…

An offline benchtop printer and a print & apply labeller.

Typically, unless you have a portable printer, an industrial benchtop label printer will take a roll measuring 200mm diameter and a print & apply labeller will take 300mm.

A fairly standard label size for an outer box label is 100mm wide by 75mm long, plus a 3mm gap.  On a 200mm diameter roll, you will get 2,550 labels per roll, whereas on the 300mm diameter, it goes up to a considerable 6,600 per roll.

So a 50% increase in size, has given us 61% more labels on a roll.

Let’s look at some more examples:

As you can see, the increase in labels from 300mm to 400mm diameter is massive for such a relatively small increase!  Upgrading from 300mm to 400mm is only a 33.3% increase but the number of  labels increases by 46%.

So just by using 400mm rolls in production, nearly HALVES the number of roll changes!!!

Therefore if you have a high-volume labelling requirement, it is well worth considering looking at label applicators and print & apply labellers that have the option to take the slightly larger roll capacity, to minimise the amount of downtime incurred, due to less frequent change-overs!