3 Considerations for Food Packaging Labels

If your business makes products that require third party food packaging labels, the capabilities you receive from your service provider can affect your operating costs and revenue in relation to three factors: product test marketing, package design flexibility, and printing on demand. Below, we take a look at each factor, and explain its importance to the packaging process.

In the IT world, there’s a discipline known as A/B testing, which measures the effectiveness of two or more factors that apply to the same thing. For example, a newly developed website might first feature a corporate spokesperson video on the homepage, then replace the video with a product demonstration video. The video option that generates the best site performance becomes the option of choice.

You can do the same thing with food packaging labels. For example, you might try different colors, materials, fonts, etc., and then choose the best options after testing them in the marketplace. Digitally printed packaging is a fast, flexible, cost effective way to perform the process.

As mentioned above, the package design flexibility that digital printing offers has a direct impact on a business’ ability to test packaging options — and make necessary — changes within a narrow timeframe. But the flexibility that digital printing offers serves another need, as well.

If any of your products have ingredient changes, require new information mandated by the Food & Drug Administration, or you need to replace a photo due to copyright issues, etc., the changes can be made quickly and economically compared to older printing technologies. What’s more, digital creates exceptionally refined graphics that “pop out” on the package.

On-demand printing (a.k.a. print on demand) is a discipline in which a business’ printed materials are supplied on an as-needed basis. In some cases, the practice is used to create unusually small print runs. In other cases, the practice is leveraged to request unusually large print runs.

In either situation, on-demand printing helps businesses save money by letting them purchase what they need for the best price (i.e. a low price by ordering only as much packaging as needed or a discount price by ordering packaging in bulk).

A particular brand of food that develops a reputation for tasting great often “sells itself”, according to a well-known statement from sales and marketing. However, in order to develop that reputation, a new food must obviously tried for the first time — and our digitally printed, high-quality food packaging labels help make this happen. After the food is tried and loved, the label reinforces the brand, and makes it highly visible on store shelves.

To receive a free evaluation of how our best-in-class food packaging labels can help you bring your products to market and stimulate sales, give us a call today at (262) 790-2740, or use the contact form on our website. We look forward to learning about your business and its line of carefully crafted products.