The Advantages of Using Labels On Rolls Vs Sheeted Labels

So what are The Advantages of Using Labels On Rolls Vs Sheeted Labels?

We often have customers come to us who have been using sheet labels and printing on their own printer. If you print very few labels on a day-to-day basis, printing sheet labels makes sense. You simply print them a sheet of the time and print more as you go. However, as business starts to increase over time the cost and time required to use sheet labels starts to increase.

What are some of the benefits of using label on rolls?

Labels On Rolls Cost Less

Unless you are ordering incredibly cheap (and most likely very low quality) labels from offline and printing them yourself, the cost per label is generally much higher with sheet labels than it is with rolled labels. For example, the shipping labels that are 3-1/3 x 4 inches are priced at $13.39 for 150 labels. LabelValue.com sells similarly sized Dymo shipping labels (2-5/16 x 4 inches) for $13.58 for 300 labels. That’s literally half the cost, and the price goes down to as low as $7.12 when you purchase in bulk.

Rolls print more quickly.

One reason so many prefer label rolls to sheet labels is that they are used in actual label printers, which means they print much more quickly and are typically already set up for printing. This means you don’t waste any time looking for sheet labels, setting up the template in the correct location on the sheet, removing the paper from the printer, printing, and replacing the labels with the paper again. It may seem like it doesn’t take long but even if the entire process took only minutes, those minutes add up quickly over time. With just 2 minutes wasted per day, every day of the year (just counting 5 days each week), you can spend over 8 hours printing labels on your regular printer.

Roll labels can be applied more quickly.
We recently had a new customer contact us because their business had grown so quickly that they were literally spending all their free time manually applying labels. While the cost of their sheet labels were actually very affordable, even at the increased rate of production, the amount of time they were spending during the packaging process far exceeded any benefits they were receiving by sticking with sheet labels. By using labels on rolls, they were able to purchase a label applicator that sped up the process exponentially.