Label Printing & Label Printers in Blacktown

Blacktown itself trades rather than manufactures. The commercial business district sits beside the railway station, anchored by Westpoint Blacktown, which opened in 1959 as the world’s first Westfield, with the hospital, the council headquarters, courthouse and TAFE around it. The heavy label work in postcode 2148 comes from next door, and it forms part of how we handle label printing Sydney wide.

Huntingwood and Arndell Park are the industrial halves of the postcode, both predominantly industrial and reached from the M4 and the Westlink M7. Huntingwood runs as a logistics and distribution hub with complexes for Coles and Woolworths, and Diageo relocated the bottling of Bundaberg Rum there in 2014. Bottling lines and distribution centres want very different labels.

Why does Blacktown label work start in Huntingwood and Arndell Park?

The suburb of Blacktown is a commercial, retail and civic centre. Blacktown Road is the primary commercial corridor, and the occupiers around it are offices, health, education and government rather than production floors. What they buy tends to be asset tags, file and archive labels, shelf and price labels, and barcodes for stock control.

A few minutes away the requirement changes completely. Bottling, ambient and chilled distribution and third-party logistics generate labels by the pallet, on lines that do not pause while somebody works out why a roll is misfeeding.

What does a bottling line ask of a label?

Spirits bottling anywhere in Australia runs to Standard 2.7.1 of the Food Standards Code. A standard drinks statement is required above 0.5 per cent alcohol by volume and a pregnancy warning above 1.15 per cent, and the warning is a specified design rather than free artwork, with the signal words set in red specified as PMS 485.

On a container over 200 mL and up to 800 mL the pictogram must be 6 mm, the signal words 2.1 mm and the statement 1.6 mm. Squeezing that onto a curved bottle alongside branding, a barcode and the stated quantity is an artwork problem best solved before a plate-free digital run, not after.

Measurement marking is a separate rule again

The National Measurement Institute sets minimum character heights for the stated quantity by the package’s maximum dimension: 2 mm up to 120 mm, 2.5 mm over 120 to 230 mm, 3.3 mm over 230 to 360 mm and 4.8 mm above that. The packer’s name and Australian street address are also required, and a PO box is not accepted.

What do we supply into Huntingwood, Arndell Park and Blacktown?

We are not only a label printer. One order can carry the printed labels, the machine that prints them, the stock it runs on and the consumables that keep it fed.

Delivered into the 2148 industrial belt:

• quicklabel ql e100 entry level colour printers for on-demand short runs and starter setups
• thermal transfer labels where print has to outlast heat, light and repeated handling
• label stock and materials matched to glass, PET, film, carton and chilled surfaces
• overprinting systems for coding plain cartons on the line instead of warehousing pre-printed outers
• genuine consumables for printers already on site, including machines bought from another supplier

Where an entry level printer stops making sense

The QuickLabel QL-E100 sits at the bottom of the QuickLabel range and suits low volume printing without a dedicated operator. The QL-120X, advertised with a two-year warranty, and the Epson ColorWorks and TrojanLabel units step up in speed and duty cycle. Print your own artwork at a demonstration before committing.

How should a pallet leaving Huntingwood be marked?

The GS1 Logistic Label Guideline sets the format most distribution centres expect to receive. An SSCC is application identifier (00) followed by 18 digits, and it must not be reassigned within one year of the shipment date. Standard label formats are A6 at 105 x 148 mm and A5 at 148 x 210 mm.

Placement is prescribed too. A GS1-128 symbol runs an X-dimension of 0.495 to 0.94 mm with a minimum bar height of 31.75 mm, and on a pallet the symbol must sit between 400 mm and 800 mm from the base so a scanner can find it.

Do your technicians travel to Blacktown?

They do. Blacktown is around 79 km from Green Point, roughly an hour via the M1, the M2 and Old Windsor Road or the Westlink M7, and the same run covers Huntingwood and Arndell Park. Installation, operator training, servicing and repairs happen on your floor.

There is no Blacktown branch, showroom or counter, and we will not pretend otherwise. Stock, spare parts and the technical team sit at Green Point, and label printing in Blacktown is delivered work rather than walk-in work. Label materials, adhesives, inks and finishes should be selected according to the intended application and relevant Australian requirements.

Frequently asked questions

Areas we also serve

• label printing Seven Hills
• label printing Penrith

References and further reading

• Food Standards Code Standard 2.7.1 — Federal Register of Legislation. alcohol thresholds and pregnancy warning mark sizes
• GS1 Logistic Label Guideline — GS1. SSCC format, label sizes and pallet placement
• Guide to the sale of pre-packaged goods — National Measurement Institute. minimum character heights for measurement marking