The short answer
Digital Label Services supplies label printing to Ingleburn from Green Point on the Central Coast, around 107 km and 1 hour 27 minutes away. We deliver printed labels, pallet and carton labelling, label stock and consumables on planned runs, supply colour label printers and presses, and send technicians out for installation and service.
Digital Label Services · 7A Melissa St, Green Point NSW 2251 · 0431 942 464 · Monday to Friday, 8:30am–5:00pm
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Tell us what you need labelled and we will come back with a tailored quote.
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Ingleburn’s industrial estate announces itself in its street names. Lancia Drive, Lagonda Drive and Mercedes Road run through an area rezoned in 1969 and built out within a decade, and the geography has stayed clean ever since: industry west of the railway line, housing east of it. Our label printing Sydney work reaches into the City of Campbelltown from the Central Coast.
Elsewhere the estate borrows English place names and birds. Chester Road, Oxford Road and Norfolk Street sit alongside Warbler Avenue, Lorikeet Avenue and Kingfisher Street. Stockland’s Ingleburn Logistics Park added a large-format industrial and employment precinct, and MediaHub, the television playout centre run as a WIN Television and ABC partnership, is here too.
What sort of labelling does a distribution estate generate?
Large-format warehousing produces a predictable list. Cartons and trade outers need item barcodes, pallets need a logistics label, racks and pick faces need location labels, and inwards goods need something that survives being handled twice before it is put away.
That mix rewards a supplier who can also fix the machine. A site printing its own despatch labels has a single point of failure sitting on a bench near the dock, and when it stops the dock stops with it.
Where does a barcode have to sit on a pallet?
The GS1 Logistic Label Guideline is specific about height. On a pallet, barcodes shall sit between 400 mm and 800 mm from the pallet base. That band is where fixed and hand-held scanners are aimed, so a symbol outside it becomes something a person keys in by hand.
Placement is also the practical argument for automation. Hand application drifts, particularly late in a shift, and drift on a pallet label turns into manual handling at the receiving end. Symbol quality is graded separately, and the GS1 verification guideline sets grade 1.5/10/670 as the minimum for a GS1-128.
What do we supply into the Ingleburn estate?
Digital Label Services supplies labels, printers, presses, stock and consumables rather than print alone. On an estate built around moving goods, that usually means one order covering the labels, the machine that prints them and the parts that keep it printing.
Ordered regularly from Ingleburn addresses:
- commercial label presses for long runs of fixed artwork
- label applicators where placement is starting to affect scan rates
- chemical and GHS labels for goods stored, decanted or repacked on site
- food label printing for third-party packing and repacking accounts
- Colour label printers from entry level units upwards
- Genuine consumables and label stock matched to the machines already installed
Before a technician drives out
Most faults narrow down over the phone. Call 0431 942 464 with the model, the fault and a photo of a bad label, and we will usually know whether it is a consumable, a setting or a part before a visit is booked.
When does a warehouse outgrow supplied labels?
Supplied labels suit fixed artwork and predictable quantities. Low volume covers 1 to 1,000 labels, medium volume starts at 1,000 and is produced without printing plates within seven working days, and high volume begins at 10,000. Label printing in Ingleburn splits along that line.
The real tipping point is data rather than quantity. Once every label carries a different consignment number, batch code or customer reference, printing on demand is the only sensible answer, and the question becomes which printer and which stock.
How does a supplier 107 km away keep you stocked?
Ingleburn is around 107 km from Green Point, roughly an hour and 27 minutes via the M1, M2, Westlink M7 and the M5. It is the longest run we make into Sydney, and we plan around the drive rather than pretend otherwise.
In practice that means scheduled delivery runs instead of ad hoc trips, consolidated orders so labels, stock and consumables travel together, stock held here for regular accounts, freight for urgent consumables, and remote diagnosis before a technician makes the trip. Label printing in Ingleburn is produced and dispatched from 7A Melissa St, Green Point NSW 2251, and there is no branch or counter in the estate.
What does a GS1 logistics label have to measure?
These are the published figures worth checking before a distribution label goes to print.
| Label element | Specification | Source |
|---|---|---|
| SSCC data structure | Application Identifier (00) plus 18 digits | GS1 logistic label guideline |
| Standard label formats | A6 105 x 148 mm, A5 148 x 210 mm | GS1 logistic label guideline |
| GS1-128 X-dimension | 0.495 mm to 0.94 mm | GS1 logistic label guideline |
| Minimum bar height, GS1-128 | 31.75 mm | GS1 logistic label guideline |
| Barcode height on a pallet | 400 mm to 800 mm from the pallet base | GS1 logistic label guideline |
| EAN-13 for general distribution | 150% to 200% magnification, X-dimension 0.495 to 0.660 mm | GS1 Australia fact sheet |
Confirm the format your customer’s distribution centre specifies before committing to a run.
“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
Do you have a warehouse or trade counter in Ingleburn?
No. Digital Label Services operates from 7A Melissa St, Green Point NSW 2251, around 107 km and about an hour and 27 minutes from the estate. Orders are delivered to your unit on planned runs and technicians travel out for installation, training and service. Hours are 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.
What happens if we run short of ribbon or stock unexpectedly?
Urgent consumables go by freight rather than waiting for the next delivery run, which is usually the fastest option at this distance. For accounts ordering the same items repeatedly we hold stock here and agree a minimum level, so a shortfall triggers a replenishment rather than a phone call.
Can you print our SSCC pallet labels, or should we print them ourselves?
Serialised numbers change on every pallet, so they belong on a printer at the dock rather than in a supplied run. We supply the printer, the blank or part-printed stock and the consumables, and can advise on the label format and symbol size your customers are specifying.
Will a label hold on a pallet once it is stretch wrapped?
It depends where the label goes. A label applied to the carton and then covered by film behaves differently from one applied over the film, which needs an adhesive suited to a low energy surface. Tell us which method you use and we will recommend a combination to trial.
Do you supply consumables for printers we bought elsewhere?
Often, yes. Send the make, model and the part numbers on your current ribbon or ink cartridge and we will confirm what we can supply as genuine consumables. Where a machine is near the end of its service life we will say so rather than keep selling parts.
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Ready to fix the label before it fails at the dock?
Send a sample label, the printer model and a note on where the goods end up, and we will quote the labels, recommend the material and tell you whether an applicator would pay for itself.
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References and further reading
- GS1 Logistic Label Guideline — GS1. pallet barcode placement, label formats and GS1-128 dimensions
- EAN-13 barcode fact sheet — GS1 Australia. magnification ranges for general distribution symbols
- 1D Barcode Verification Process Implementation Guideline — GS1. print quality grading for distribution symbols