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Product Labels

Sized to your container, printed on material that survives the contents, and laid out with room for everything the pack has to declare.

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Wraparound, front and back sets, lid labels, pouch labels and neck bands, cut to your container and supplied on sheets.

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Label types

The container decides the label, not the other way round. Before anything is designed, it is worth being clear about which surfaces you are labelling, what shows between them, and who or what will be applying them.

Wraparound labels

One label running the full way round a bottle or jar, with a small overlap at the seam. It gives you the most printable area and the cleanest look, and it is the simplest for a person to apply straight.

Front and back sets

Two labels applied opposite each other: brand and product on the front, ingredients, directions and declarations on the back. The container itself shows between them, which suits glass and coloured bottles.

Lid and cap labels

Circular labels for jar lids, tub tops and cap seals, often carrying the variant name so a stacked shelf or a storeroom crate can be read from above.

Pouch and sachet labels

Labels for stand-up pouches, sachets and flexible packs, where printing the pack itself is only economical in very large volumes. A good label on a plain pouch does the same job far sooner.

Neck bands and seals

Bands and seals across a cap or a lid that show whether a container has been opened. On food, cosmetics and anything sold onward through a distributor, they settle the question before it is asked.

Cold and wet-surface labels

Film labels with adhesive specified for chilled, frozen or condensation-prone containers, for dairy, beverages, frozen foods and anything that comes out of a cold room sweating.

Sizing a label to your container

This is the step that decides whether the finished pack looks manufactured or improvised, and it is arithmetic rather than design.

  • Measure the circumference, not the diameter. Wrap a strip of paper around the container, mark the overlap and measure the strip. It is more reliable than calculating from a diameter you estimated.
  • Wraparound labels need an overlap of 5 to 8 mm, so the label width is the circumference plus that overlap. Design the overlapping end so it carries background rather than text, since something will sit under the seam.
  • Front and back labels need a gap. Leave 8 to 10 mm of bare container on each side, or slight misapplication makes the two labels touch and look crooked.
  • Leave 3 to 5 mm clear at the shoulder and the base. A label taken right to the edge of a straight section will run onto the curve and wrinkle.
  • Tapered containers need a curved dieline. A cone-shaped bottle or a tapered tub will not take a rectangular label flat; the label has to be cut as an arc. Send us the container and we will work out the shape.
  • Squeeze bottles need flexible film. Paper labels crack and lift on a container that flexes every time it is used.
  • Keep panel sizes consistent across a range. If five products share a shape, use one label size for all five. It makes the range look like a range on a shelf, and it prints cheaper because they gang together.

The most reliable approach is to send us a sample of the actual container. We will measure it, build the dieline and show you a mock-up before anything is printed.

Materials and finishes

Choose the material for the contents first and the look second. Oil migrates through unsealed paper, condensation lifts it, and alcohol-based products attack an unprotected print. Our labels suit dry goods, sheltered packaging and short-run artisan brands very well. For bottles that live in a chiller or a product that sweats oil, tell us before you order, because that is a harder job than it looks.

White sticker vinyl

The most durable material we carry. Tear-resistant, flexible on curves and unaffected by handling, which makes it the sensible default for jars, tins, boxes and anything that gets picked up repeatedly.

Clear film

Transparent film for the no-label look on glass and clear containers. Light colours need a white ink layer printed beneath them or they disappear against the contents.

Matte and glossy label paper

Matte for a low-glare label that still takes a pen for batch or date coding. Glossy for product photography and strong colour. Both are economical and both suit dry goods, boxes and sheltered packaging.

Kraft and textured

Uncoated natural stock for honey, spices, soap, candles and handmade ranges where the packaging depends on looking unprocessed. Not the choice for an oily product, since oil migrates through unsealed paper.

Coloured and specialty stock

Tinted, natural and textured label materials, for ranges where the paper is part of the identity. A single ink colour on a coloured stock reads as deliberate and costs the same as full colour.

Die-cut shapes and label sheets

Cutting is digital, so a wraparound, an oval, a shaped label or a curved arc for a tapered bottle all cost the same as a rectangle. Several variants can be cut onto one sheet in the same job.

What the label has to carry

Design the panel around this list rather than adding it at the end. Squeezing declarations into leftover space at 4 pt is the most common reason a label has to be redesigned after the first print run.

  • Product name and what it actually is. A brand name alone tells a shopper nothing. The descriptive name should be readable from a step away.
  • Net weight or volume, stated in metric units, positioned where a shopper comparing two products can find it quickly.
  • Ingredients or composition, in descending order of quantity, which is the convention buyers and distributors expect.
  • Manufacturer or importer name and address, with a contact number. Distributors and retailers ask for this before they list a product.
  • Batch number, manufacturing date and expiry, with space left for them to be applied on your line rather than printed. More on this below.
  • Storage and usage instructions, and any warnings the product needs.
  • Barcode, supplied as vector with its quiet zone clear, and tested against a real scanner before the run.
  • Sector marks and certifications where they apply to your category. Food, cosmetics, supplements, pharmaceuticals and household chemicals are each governed differently, and requirements change. Confirm what applies to your product with the relevant authority or your distributor before printing, rather than copying the layout of a competitor’s pack.

Leave batch and expiry blank on the printed label. Print a clear white or light panel with the field labels, and apply the actual numbers with a stamp, a thermal coder or an inkjet on the line. Printing dates into the label locks you into using that stock within a window and turns every leftover sheet into waste.

Designing for the shelf

A label is read at about a metre, in poor light, next to competitors, by someone scanning rather than reading. Almost everything about a good label follows from that.

  • Three things carry at a distance: what the product is, the brand, and the variant. Decide their order deliberately and let the rest of the panel be quieter.
  • Colour-code the variants across a range. One layout, one label size, different accent colour per flavour or strength. A customer who liked the green one finds it again without reading a word, and that is repeat purchase.
  • Keep the front panel clear of declarations. Ingredients and legal text belong on the back or the side. A front panel carrying everything communicates nothing.
  • Contrast beats colour. Shops here vary from bright to dim, and a pale grey name on a cream label vanishes under a tube light.
  • Test it small and at a distance. Print the label at actual size, stick it to the container, stand back two metres and see what you can still read. Do it before ordering thousands, not after.
  • Look at it in a shelf, not on a screen. Place your mock-up next to the products it will actually sit beside. A design that looks distinctive alone often disappears in context.
  • Leave the top third readable when stacked. In many shops here products are stacked or crated with only the upper part visible, and a brand name at the base of the label is a brand name nobody sees.

Supplied on sheets, and applying them

Labels are supplied on sheets, cut to your shape and ready to peel. How you apply them is worth settling before printing, because it changes how we lay the sheet out.

  • Tell us roughly how many per sheet and we will lay them out so they peel easily rather than packing them edge to edge. A little space around each label makes hand application noticeably faster.
  • Kiss-cut or cut through. Kiss-cut leaves the backing intact so labels stay on the sheet until peeled, which is quicker to work from. Cut through gives you separate labels.
  • If you use an applicator machine, it needs labels wound on a roll with a specific core and unwind direction, which is a different setup and not something we supply. Sheets suit hand application, which is how most short-run and artisan brands work.
  • Applying by hand without wrinkles: line up one edge against a fixed reference on the container, tack it down, then roll the container away from you while smoothing outward from the centre. A simple wooden jig costs almost nothing and makes a small operation look industrial.
  • Clean and dry the container first. Dust from storage, mould release on new plastic bottles and any moisture will all stop the adhesive bonding properly.
  • Let the adhesive set before packing. It reaches full strength over about a day, so labelled goods packed tightly into cartons within minutes is where edges lift.
  • Order slightly more than your unit count. A percentage is lost to misapplication, especially early on, and a top-up run costs disproportionately more than including them in the first order.

Urdu and bilingual product labels

For anything sold in the local market, this is a commercial decision rather than a stylistic one. A buyer who cannot read the usage instructions is a buyer who puts the product back.

  • Usage, dosage and safety text in Urdu reaches a much wider share of the market than English alone. On household chemicals, supplements and anything with a wrong way to use it, this is the most important text on the pack.
  • Keep numerals standard. Batch numbers, dates, weights, volumes and prices are read by distributors, retailers and inspectors, and standard numerals are what everyone scans fastest.
  • Set the two languages as separate panels, not as interleaved lines. Urdu runs right to left, and mixing directions within a paragraph on a small back panel produces something nobody can follow.
  • Do not translate the brand name. It is an identifier, and a range that appears under two different names confuses repeat purchase.
  • Send Urdu as outlines or a print-ready PDF with fonts embedded. Nastaliq letters join and reshape, and on a small back panel a broken join is not obvious until thousands are printed.
  • Working in InPage? Export to PDF and send that rather than the .inp file. If you only have the InPage layout, send it and we will rebuild it as a print file.
  • Do not set Urdu below about 6 pt. Below that Nastaliq loses its joins and becomes a grey line rather than readable words.

Sindhi and Pashto follow the same rules, and are worth considering where your distribution is concentrated outside the major cities.

Why brands print their labels with Zarvex

A label failure is not a printing problem you discover on delivery. It is one you discover on a shelf, weeks later, on stock you have already sold in.

Dielines built from your container

Send us the actual bottle, jar or pouch. We measure it, build the dieline including the seam overlap and shoulder clearance, and show you a mock-up on the container before printing.

Material specified for the contents

Oily, alcohol-based, chilled or squeezed products each need a different face material and adhesive. Tell us what is inside and where it is stored, and we will specify it rather than defaulting to whatever is on the shelf.

Barcodes and variable data

Barcodes built as vector and checked, plus batch or serial data printed differently on every label where you need it. Or a clean coding panel left blank for your own line equipment.

A whole range at one setup

Several variants ganged onto the same press sheet, so a range of six labels costs far less than six separate jobs and the colour stays consistent across all of them. Quotes are in PKR.

How ordering works

01. Send the container

Choose a product from the range above and send us a sample container, or its measurements. We confirm the label size, shape, material and how many labels per sheet suit the way you apply them.

02. Send your artwork

Upload artwork built on our dieline, or send your brand assets and the declarations you need and our designers will lay out the front and back panels.

03. Approve the proof

You get a proof with the dieline shown and, where useful, a mock-up on the container. Check every declaration, the barcode and the coding panel at this stage.

04. Print, finish and deliver

Printed, die-cut and supplied on sheets ready to peel, then delivered in Karachi or couriered nationwide. Artwork and dielines stay on record for reorders.

Getting your artwork press-ready

Label artwork is unforgiving because it is small, so the setup matters more than it does on larger pieces.

  • Build on the dieline we supply, with the cut path on its own layer in a spot colour named CutContour, set to overprint and not printing.
  • Bleed 3 mm past the dieline and keep all text and logos 3 mm inside it. On a wraparound, keep important content out of the overlap zone entirely.
  • Vector for everything that can be vector. Logos, type and barcodes reproduce sharply; the same elements exported as a raster image look soft at label sizes.
  • Minimum type sizes: 6 pt for declarations in English, and no smaller than about 6 pt for Urdu. Anything under that is not legible on a curved surface in shop lighting.
  • Barcode as vector, never scaled from an image, with the quiet zone clear and printed dark on light. Test a sample against a real scanner before approving.
  • On clear film, mark which areas need a white ink layer printed underneath. Without it, pale colours will vanish against the product inside.
  • On metallised film, unprinted areas show as metal. Mark whether that is intentional.
  • Leave the coding panel clear for batch and expiry, in a light flat colour that your stamp or coder can print onto legibly.
  • Files: print-ready PDF, AI or EPS suit label work best. We also accept CDR from CorelDRAW and layered PSD where the design is photographic, with the cut path supplied separately.

No dieline yet? Send the container and your brand assets, and our design team will build the dieline and the panels before anything goes to proof.

Product labels by category

The contents decide the material, and the category decides how much text has to fit on the back panel.

Food, spices and dry goods

Jar, pouch and box labels carrying ingredients, weight and coding panels. Oily products such as pickles and masalas need a vinyl label rather than paper, since oil migrates through an unsealed sheet within weeks.

Beverages and dairy

Film labels with adhesive rated for condensation, because bottles come out of a chiller wet and a paper label will lift at the edges the first time they do.

Cosmetics and personal care

Small panels carrying a great deal of required text, on containers that are often curved, squeezed or oily. Clear film and metallised material both do well in this category.

Supplements and health products

Wraparound labels with dosage, warnings and batch coding. Requirements in this category are specific and change, so confirm your obligations before the layout is fixed.

Home care and chemicals

Durable film with safety and usage instructions in Urdu as well as English, since misuse instructions are the text that matters most on these products.

Handmade and small-batch brands

Kraft and clear labels in short runs, where a well-made label on a plain jar does the work a custom printed container would cost many times more to do.

Quantities, pricing and reorders

Cost per label falls as the run grows. Quotes are in PKR and cover the material, printing, cutting and finishing, supplied on sheets ready to peel.

QuantityCost per label
A first batchHighest per label, and a normal order here
A few hundredNoticeably lower
A full production runBest value on most jobs
Multi-variant runsQuoted per job

Label runs are planned around the product cycle rather than the price break.

  • Order the whole range together. Variants are cut onto one sheet in a single job, so six flavours cost far less printed together than ordered one at a time, and the colour matches across the range.
  • Keep batch and expiry off the printed label and code them on your own line. Otherwise the labels have a shelf life before the product does.
  • Do not print a price on the label unless you have to. Prices move faster than label stock does, and a printed price turns a full box into waste.
  • Test on the real container first. Order a small quantity, apply them, and leave the labelled product a week in the conditions it will actually face: a chiller, a hot store room, a delivery crate.
  • Store label stock cool and out of sunlight. Adhesive degrades in heat, and a box left in a hot store room for a year will not stick the way it did on arrival.

Reorders are simple. Your artwork and dieline stay on record, so a repeat run needs no new setup and no new proof unless something has changed.

Product label printing FAQs

Runs start at 25 labels, which suits a first batch or a market test. Cutting is digital, so a custom dieline for your container costs nothing extra and there is no minimum tied to the shape. Cost per label falls as the run grows, most noticeably at 250 and 500.

Wrap a strip of paper around the container, mark where it overlaps and measure the strip; that is your circumference. For a wraparound, add 5 to 8 mm of overlap. Leave 3 to 5 mm clear at the shoulder and base so the label does not run onto a curve. The most reliable method is to send us the actual container and let us measure and build the dieline.

No. A rectangular label on a tapered container will wrinkle and lift along one edge, because the top and bottom circumferences are different. The label has to be cut as a curved arc shape calculated from the taper. Send us the container and we will work out the dieline.

White sticker vinyl is the most durable option we carry and the sensible default for jars, tins and boxes. Matte or glossy label paper is cheaper and suits dry goods and sheltered packaging. Clear film gives the no-label look on glass. Kraft suits handmade and natural ranges. Tell us what is inside the container and where it is stored, and we will specify it.

This is the one to be careful about. Condensation is the hardest test a label faces, and a paper label on a bottle that sweats will soften and lift at the edges. Vinyl copes far better than paper, but chilled and frozen goods really want a film and adhesive specified for cold application, which is beyond what we supply. If your product lives in a chiller, order a small test batch first and leave it in there for a week before committing.

Oil migrates through unsealed paper and shows as dark patches within weeks, so use vinyl rather than paper for anything oily and keep the label off the part of the container that gets handled with wet hands. Alcohol-based products and essential oils are harder still, since they attack the print itself. Test a few on the real product before ordering a full run.

Commonly the product name, net weight or volume, ingredients, manufacturer or importer details with a contact, batch number, manufacturing and expiry dates, storage and usage instructions, a barcode and any certification mark relevant to your category. Requirements differ by sector and change over time, so confirm what applies to your product with the relevant authority or your distributor before the layout is fixed rather than copying a competitor’s pack.

Usually not. Leave a clear light coding panel with the field labels printed, and apply the actual numbers on your line with a stamp, thermal coder or inkjet. Printing dates into the label ties you to using that stock within a window and turns every leftover sheet into waste. We can print variable batch data if you prefer; it just costs you flexibility.

Yes, and you should. Different variants gang onto the same press sheet at a single setup, so six labels printed together cost far less than six separate jobs. It also keeps the colour consistent across the range, which is difficult to achieve across runs printed at different times.

Yes, and for the local market it usually improves how the product sells. Put usage, dosage and safety text in Urdu, keep numerals standard, and set the two languages as separate panels rather than interleaved lines. Do not translate the brand name. Send Urdu as outlines or a print-ready PDF, and keep it at 6 pt or larger.

Across most of them, and the list keeps growing. The product labels we print regularly go to food, spices and dry goods, beverages and dairy, cosmetics and personal care, supplements and health products, home care and chemicals and handmade and small-batch brands.

The trade matters less than what the job has to do. Two businesses in completely different lines often need the same size, stock and finish, and two shops in the same trade often need entirely different ones. If your line of work is not named above, tell us what the product labels have to do and where they will be handled, and we will tell you what suits it.

Yes. Orders are couriered anywhere in Pakistan, including Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, Hyderabad and Quetta, and delivery within Karachi can be arranged directly. Sheets are packed flat so the adhesive edges are not crushed.

Pick a product from the range above and order on the site, or send your requirement on WhatsApp with the container type, what is inside it, where it is stored, and the quantity. Sending a sample container is the fastest route to an accurate quote in PKR.

Ready to print your product labels?

Pick a product from the range above, or send us a photo of your container on WhatsApp with what is inside it. We will come back with size, material and finish options and a quote in PKR.

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