Welcome to Tracking Solutions, Inc. Label selection

What information and number of characters will you be building into your bar code?

Is it all numbers?  If not, what does the data look like.  Alpha-Characters take up more room, especially if they are interspersed in the data.

Aside from the Bar Code and Human-Readable, how many other fields do you need to print on your label?  How many characters are in each field?

Is there other static text you need, such as Company Name or Property of?

Both at the time of labeling as well as over the life of the label.  Many labels can be applied at room temp and then go down to certain temperatures, but if a sample is already frozen a whole new class of labels is required.

Do you reuse your bottles?   If so a removable label my be required.

Do your labels have to be applied with condensation or immediately put into ice baths?  Do they need to survive chemicals or solvents and if so which ones?

Not all labels accept hand-written ink.  If this is something you need, then let us know and we can help you select the best face-sheet which meets this and your other requirements.

Do they need to serve a special service or function where maybe a multi-part or Piggyback Label would be required?  Ie. We often use Piggyback (Double ply) Labels for Chemical Inventory, so that once a chemical is used up the top ply of the label can be peeled off and applied to a reorder or a disposal form.  These are also popular in hospitals for patient charge applications.

Which ribbon you use is primarily determined by the face-sheet chosen, as well as any special requirements.  For example a Paper Label would never use a full resin ribbon, because it would be to hard to bleed and fill in the pores of a paper, thus resulting in no or exceptionally light print.