Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Is it Smart to Invest in the International Paper Co.?
Often when you come to read our blog posts here at Whitlam Label, we inform you about the latest popular trends within the labeling and packaging industry. Today will be a little different. Throughout this blog post, we’ll discuss how well the International Paper Co. has done during the North American economic collapse of the [...]
RSS Symbology Barcodes
Members of the retail industry, both suppliers and individual retailers, are always looking for ways to gain a competitive advantage. Back in 1998, the implementation of Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) was introduced. Since proven successful, RSS has become an advantage to industries and has changed the way the industry looks at pharmaceutical products and grocery [...]
Security Labels & Tamper Proof Labels: The Basics
What are security labels? As you all know, security is important. For this reason, security labels are used to deter counterfeiting, or confirm a product is a genuine brand. Thanks to secured inventory management and controlled distribution services, security needs are met 100%! Security labels come in all shapes and sizes. Holograms, color change inks, [...]
10 steps to designing graphics for a label
Designing a new label can be challenging, yet fun at the same time. We decided to put together the ten steps to designing graphics for your products label. The following steps below will help guide you design the perfect label! 10 steps to designing graphics for a label from scratch What is the label size? Length, width, height, volume [...]
Carmela's Food Show
This past week we participated in the 2010 Carmela Food Show. Carmela Foods Distributing, Inc. located in Fraser Michigan is a private company that distributes Specialty Food Items. Carmela puts on 2 major food shows a year. One takes place in the fall and the other is in the spring. These shows promote and launch new [...]
Boost your sales with instant redeemable coupons
More than 80% of consumers use coupons and more than half of all retailers offer consumers some type of promotional programs, in addition to more than 70% of consumers make their purchasing decisions at the store. With a well designed on-pack coupon you can motivate the consumer to purchase product’s. Use a variety of clever labels, tags [...]
Announcement of New Website
“We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of Whitlam’s new website,” said Michelle Shaieb, Marketing Coordinator. “Whitlam will continue to add more features and functions in the near future that we hope will make our customer’s job easier, and make Whitlam the “go to” website for all our customers.” With Whitlam’s new user friendly [...]
Temperature Activated Label’s
Grab the consumer’s attention with temperature activated color changing labels. Check out this water bottle label! This label indicates when it’s ready to drink. With the use of threomochromic inks, the label is sensitive to temperatures. When the water bottle reaches a specific temperature the color of the snowboard will turn from white to dark [...]
Prototyping with Digital Printing
Our digital process can quickly and easily produce labels for use in short run production orders, research and development, special customer presentations, trade shows, pre-sale campaigns, and more. Digital printing makes prototyping affordable; there are no expensive dies or printing plates and the ability to have a variety of label shapes, sizes and artwork. We offer [...]
