The label printer LabEX is based in St Peters, Sydney. Most of its customers are small and mid-sized producers: bottlers, soap makers, coffee roasters, gin and whisky distillers and packaged food brands. Quoting, artwork upload and ordering all happen on the website, at whatever hour suits the customer.Jobs are priced by material, size and quantity, and the customer sets all three. Paper stock suits dry goods and pantry items. Synthetic stock is chosen for drinks and cosmetics, where bottles meet condensation or a cold display cabinet. Laminates are available in matte and gloss. Because the work is quoted online and printed to order, label printing in Australia stays within reach of a brand testing a single product. Artwork is uploaded as a print-ready file and returned as a digital proof for approval before anything goes on press.
"A lot of the people ordering from us are running the whole business themselves," a company spokesperson said. "They are doing the recipe, the packing and the deliveries, and the labels are one more job on the list. Our aim is to let them sort that job out at whatever hour suits them, get a proof back, approve it and move on. Repeat orders take a couple of minutes because the artwork is already there. We hear good things about that from customers who reorder every few weeks."
Print runs start small and scale up. A producer can order fifty labels for a market stall and return for several thousand once the product is stocked in shops. Nothing is held in storage, since each order is printed fresh to the customer's file. Personalised labels leave within three to five business days of approval. FSC-certified paper stock is available for brands that want a recyclable material, and we publish specifications for every stock on the site for comparison before ordering.
For a producer weighing up presentation against cost, the practical question is usually which material suits the product and how quickly the order can be turned around. Sticker printing labels to order, in the quantity actually needed, gives a brand room to change artwork between runs without writing off a pallet of unused stock.
About LabEX
LabEX is an online custom label printing company based in Sydney. The company supplies sticker print labels for food, drink, cosmetic and healthcare products, with paper and synthetic materials, matte and gloss finishes, digital proofing and print runs sized to the order. For more information, visit https://www.labex.com.au .