The short answer
Tuggerah sits around 26 km north of Digital Label Services at 7A Melissa St, Green Point NSW 2251, roughly twenty-seven minutes by road. We print retail barcode, shelf and price labels for large-format stores, and carton and despatch labels for the warehouses on Reliance Drive. Weekdays, 8:30am to 5:00pm.
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Tuggerah puts large-format retail and distribution sheds on the same interchange. Westfield Tuggerah anchors one, the Tuggerah Business Park on Reliance Drive the other, so the work travelling from Tuggerah to Digital Label Services divides between the checkout and the loading dock. Other origins sit on our all directions and parking page.
Both halves rise or fall on whether a symbol scans. A price label rejected at the register and a carton label rejected at an inbound dock are the same defect with different consequences, and neither is artwork. They are print quality problems, so samples beat descriptions.
What does a retail and logistics node actually print?
Two streams. Shelf, price, promotional and re-barcoding labels for the stores, produced in short runs and reprinted weekly. Then carton, despatch and outer-case labels for the sheds off Gavenlock Road and Pioneer Avenue.
How large does a retail barcode need to be?
At nominal 100% magnification an EAN-13 symbol carries an X-dimension of 0.330 mm and a height of 22.85 mm. Point of sale accepts 80% to 200% of that, or 0.264 mm to 0.660 mm. Squeezing a symbol under that band to fit a small pack is where scan failures start.
Why does an outer carton need a bigger symbol than a shelf pack?
Because the reading band is narrower. General Distribution symbols, read in the warehouse rather than at the register, run 150% to 200%, or 0.495 mm to 0.660 mm. A carton label shrunk to fit its print area can pass at a checkout and fail on the dock.
What print grade does a scanner actually demand?
Quality is graded to ISO/IEC 15416, from 4.0/A down to 0.0/F. The published minimum for a retail point of sale symbol is 1.5/06/670: a C grade read through a 6 mil aperture at 670 nm. Quiet zones count too, 3.63 mm left of an EAN-13 and 2.31 mm right.
How do you get here from Reliance Drive?
Wyong Road feeds the M1 at the interchange. Southbound to the Central Coast Highway, through West Gosford and Erina, then Avoca Drive.
Around 26 km, roughly twenty-seven minutes, which makes the run from Tuggerah to Digital Label Services a half hour outside the peak. Worth a call first, so call us before you visit.
What never needs the drive?
Verification results, artwork and quotes move by email, and consumables and label stock go out to Reliance Drive. Central Coast Council’s Tuggerah to Wyong Corridor Strategy projects roughly 2,100 additional jobs at Tuggerah by 2036. Most will never see the premises.
“Digital Label Services have delivered quality labels and consumables, cost savings and support for the last 7 months for our colour label printers ensuring that a key component of our business runs efficiently.”
Kim Jardine, General Manager, James Bennett P/L
Frequently asked questions
Why do barcodes that look fine still fail at the checkout?
Usually magnification or quiet zones rather than the printer. A symbol reduced below the point of sale band, or crowded by artwork on either side, loses the clear space a scanner needs to find its edges. Both are fixable beforehand.
Can you check a barcode as well as print it?
Print quality is graded against ISO/IEC 15416, from 4.0/A down to 0.0/F, and retail point of sale carries a published C grade minimum. Send a printed sample on the pack it sits on and we will assess it against that scale.
Do you print shelf and price labels, not just product labels?
Yes. Shelf, price, promotional and re-barcoding labels are routine work, and we also supply the colour label printers, label stock and genuine consumables so that a store or a warehouse can print its own as demand shifts through the week.
Which volume tier suits a despatch operation?
Runs of 1 to 1,000 labels are low volume, above 1,000 is medium volume and can be produced without printing plates, and above 10,000 is high volume. The site states medium volume production within seven working days, so the tier usually follows the despatch cycle.
Is it worth driving down, or can a sample do the job?
A failed label and the carton it came off can be posted, and most defects are identified from that. Drive down from Tuggerah to Digital Label Services to watch a machine run your own artwork at production speed, or to compare two printers.
Nearby label printing services
Symbol not scanning?
Speak with our printer specialists on 0431 942 464, or send the failed label with its pack. We will tell you whether it is the symbol, the material or the printer.
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References and further reading
- EAN-13 barcode fact sheet — GS1 Australia. supports the X-dimension, symbol height, magnification bands and quiet zones
- 1D Barcode Verification Process Implementation Guideline — GS1. supports the ISO/IEC 15416 grading scale and the retail point of sale minimum