Label Printing & Label Printers in Gosford

Gosford’s business mix is unusual for a regional centre. The CBD carries professional services and government administration along Mann Street, the Gosford Hospital Health and Wellbeing Precinct carries clinical research and the University of Newcastle Clinical School, and a few streets away The Factory turns out nougat, chocolate and marshmallow. Our label printing on the Central Coast work has to cover all of it.

Digital Label Services is based at 7A Melissa St, Green Point, around 8 km from the Gosford CBD via Avoca Drive and the Central Coast Highway. Labels, printers, presses, label stock and consumables all come from one supplier, so label printing in Gosford does not mean chasing three different companies when a print run and a printer fault land in the same week.

Which Gosford industries send us the most label work?

Health care and social assistance is the largest employing sector on the Central Coast at 30,719 jobs, and a good share of that sits in and around the hospital precinct. Pharmacy, pathology, aged care and clinical research all generate labelling that has to be legible, correctly sized and consistent from batch to batch.

The second stream is food and confectionery. The Factory at Gosford, described by Visit NSW as the biggest nougat producer in Australia, sits alongside Bay Rd Brewing and a long tail of smaller producers selling into Coast retailers.

What do medical and pharmacy labels have to get right?

Prescription medicine labelling is governed by TGO 91. Label text must be not less than 1.5 mm and the registration number not less than 1.0 mm. Active ingredient names on the main label must be not less than 3.0 mm, dropping to 2.5 mm where there are four or more actives.

Those heights are settled before you choose a label size, not after. Small containers drop to 2.0 mm and 1.5 mm, and very small containers to 1.5 mm and 1.0 mm, so an ampoule label and a 100 mL bottle label are different design problems. We check artwork against the stock size before a run starts.

Do research and campus labs need something different?

The University of Newcastle’s Gosford Central campus at 299 Mann Street and the Central Coast Research Institute at the hospital precinct run labelling that never reaches a shelf. Specimen tubes, sample racks, freezer inventory and equipment asset tags all have to stay readable and stay attached.

Those jobs turn on adhesive and facestock rather than artwork. A label that lifts at minus 20 degrees or smears under solvent costs you the sample, so we match material to environment and let you test it first.

How should a Gosford food or confectionery label be built?

Allergen declarations changed under Plain English Allergen Labelling, which carried a compliance date of 25 February 2024. Allergens must appear in bold in the ingredient list and again in a bolded summary statement beginning with the word Contains. Added sulphites are declared at 10 mg/kg or more.

Country of origin is the other one producers get wrong. Confectionery is a non-priority food under the Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016, so it needs a text statement rather than the three-part standard mark with the kangaroo symbol and bar chart.

What can a Gosford business order from us?

Digital Label Services is not only a label printer. We supply the labels, the machine that prints them, the stock it runs on and the technician who services it.

Commonly ordered by Gosford customers:

• printed product labels in low, medium and high volume runs
• barcode label printing for retail packs and dispensary use
• colour label printers including QuickLabel and Epson ColorWorks models
• wine and beverage labels for local brewers and drinks producers
• overprinting systems for date and batch coding onto cartons and outers
• genuine consumables and label stock matched to the printer you already run
• label printer repairs and service when a print head or feed fault stops production

Volume tiers

Low volume covers 1 to 1,000 labels. Medium volume starts at 1,000, is produced without printing plates and is produced within seven working days. High volume begins at 10,000. Most label printing in Gosford starts with one of those three tiers and a sample.

How do labels and technicians get to Gosford?

Gosford is around 8 km from Green Point, roughly nine minutes via Avoca Drive and the Central Coast Highway outside peak periods. Our technicians travel to Gosford sites for installation, operator training and service calls, and finished orders are delivered.

To see stock, printers and print samples in person, the directions to our Green Point premises page has the detail, and there is a step-by-step set of directions from Gosford to our premises. We are open 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.

Frequently asked questions

Areas we also serve

• label printing Erina
• label printing West Gosford
• label printing Wyong
• label printing Woy Woy

References and further reading

• TGO 91 – labels of prescription and related medicines — Federal Register of Legislation. minimum text and active ingredient heights
• Plain English Allergen Labelling — FSANZ. the 25 February 2024 compliance date
• Country of origin food labelling — ACCC. priority and non-priority food marking