Meanwhile, 4Over is ramping up their label production side, and are getting more and more competitive with some of the other large label printing companies. Plus there's a discount code this month for labels, if I'm not mistaken.
Labels are an interesting part of the printing industry. There are several ways to make a label, from litho to foil to embossing, spot color, die cut, pre-cut, cut in-line, kiss cut, back printing... the list goes on and on. It's very expensive to get into actual label printing. Yeah, we can kinda do labels with a gerber or summa, and while those are great options, they are very high cost options.
There are several companies that kit together in-house label making solutions from large color laser printers to the MemJet printer. I've researched many of them. They are interesting. Expensive. But interesting. There's one that I really liked, it had an inline laminator, that fed into a small inline plotter for die cutting, that fed into an unwebbing unit that stripped all the extra around the label right before it re-rolled everything back up for your client. Neat to watch and see that you could literally get yourself a table top label press (of sorts) for only $40k. It's steep, but if that's what you really wanted to do was offer labels, that's a really great idea to get in on the ground floor of label production. Apart from getting a real press.