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Inventive Label, Inc., a manufacturer of label products, has long had a unique relationship with distributors as well as other label companies. We provide a wide variety of labels to some of the largest print distributors and printing companies in the USA and abroad. We are capable of producing nearly any type of prime, IRC, or ECL label your client requires. As …
Label cutting dies (tooling) come in a wide variety of formats. In the past, tooling was made on manual turning and milling machines. It was an expensive process to produce cutting dies with custom label shapes or other specialty tooling. Often labels were formed using straight cross cut blades and rotary cutters (pizza wheels) to trim the sides. With today’s …
Folded labels are one of the most versatile Extended Content Labels (ECL’s) that exist. They are used extensively for Instant Redeemable Coupons (IRC’s). These fold-out coupons can frequently be seen at the grocery store promoting $2.00 off some hot dogs or some other item. Folded labels are also often used for multi-lingual products. Each fold-out panel can have the usage …
Years ago, most labels had square corners. Now most labels have rounded corners. Why the change? In the past, the custom engraved rotary tooling to make a label shape with rounded corners was mostly a manual milling process and was very expensive. It was much more economical to simply insert a general purpose straight cutting blade in a horizontal slot …
We’d like to extend to you and your’s a safe and wonderful holiday season during these challenging times. Our plant will be closed Christmas Eve as well as Christmas Day and will resume all normal activities on December 28, 2020. We will also be closed New Year’s day.
Tom Miller joined the Inventive Label as an Account Executive in January 2017. Tom comes with a history of working in the label and sheet fed printing industries, giving him a well-rounded printing background and extensive product knowledge. Tom grew up Pasadena, CA where he worked for Western Label Company. He moved to Orange County in 2002 and took a …
While Inventive Label, Inc. has an extensive repertoire of capabilities to produce ECL’s, IRC’s, tags, and other highly specialized custom labels to help your business, one important feature was missing: In-line Variable Printing I am pleased to announce we have acquired the necessary equipment to add high quality, high speed variable print to any of the label types mentioned above, …
Our corporate goal is for “Zero Defects”, backed by intensive training and comprehensive written procedures. As such, Inventive Label has a reputation of providing the highest quality, even on complex, difficult to produce, specialty label products. In the unlikely event of a product defect, we have developed a full spectrum system to quickly identify and isolate any defects both during …
As a follow up to our recent blog “Making of the 2015 Inventive Label Christmas Card”, we are pleased to report that our card won “Best of Category: Cards” in the annual Southern California Printing Industries of America (PIASC) “Print Excellence Awards Contest”. Of particularly importance to us was the fact that the “Christmas Project” was in reality an educational …
All of us at Inventive Label have much to be thankful for this year, including the continuing support of our suppliers and customer base which have enabled us to expand our capabilities in providing specialty multi-ply labels, examples of which are on this card: Snowballs (base of snowman) – 2 ply Resealable Expanded Content Label’s (ECL’s) The Sleigh (upper left) …
Prime, single layer, labels usually pose few, if any, problems when applied using automatic labeling equipment. In contrast, some multi-layered constructions can require adjustment and/or modifications to labeling units to enable trouble free label application to product containers. Since Inventive Label specializes in producing a variety of expanded content formats such as fold-outs, 2-ply coupons, booklet labels and the like, …
Inventive Label is pleased to introduce its newly developed website, www.inventivelabel.com, to showcase the company’s capabilities in providing specialty custom labels to a wide range of industries. Inventive Label stands out with its leading expertise in multi-web label manufacturing, producing many different versions of Expanded Content Labels (ECL’s), Extended Text Labels, Booklet Labels, and a host of other complex label …