Thinking about printing your own product labels? Think again, it costs you more than you think!
Thinking about printing your own product labels? Think again, it costs you more than you think!
If you are printing custom labels for your candles or other products yourself on your desktop printer you may be interested in learning exactly how much that is costing you. If you actually sit down and check out the numbers, you’ll see that the costs of printing candle labels yourself is higher than you think.
Additionally, not only are these labels costing you more to print yourself, but you are also getting an inferior label, which also costs you SALES! Now, let’s take a look at an actual example of someone printing their own custom labels vs someone who sends their label to be professionally printed.
| Cost of printing labels yourself vs ordering from Rival Branding | |
Printing 2500 labels yourself | 2500 labels printed by us |
$425.00 low quality desktop print poor label material labels are on sheets which makes them difficult to apply to your products alignment difficulties slow printing this example would require 7 sets of ink cartidges | $397.00 printed on industrial label press high quality label materia simple ordering porocess labels supplied on convenient rolls for easy application to your products ZERO alignment headaches ZERO trips to the store for ink cartridges |
Here's a breakdown of the cost of printing your own labels using typical ink and pre-cut label paper costs. Your costs will vary based on your printer model and what type of label paper you use, however we used numbers for the top selling printer currently listed on Amazon, the HP Envy 5055. Costs for ink cartridges were found on Staples.com Pre-cut label paper costs were found on Avery.com Prices were based on average costs as of the date this article was written. | |
| Item | Cost |
| Black ink cartridge (HP 65 Black) | $15.99 |
| Color ink cartridge (HP 65 Tri Color) | $16.99 |
| Approximate pages that a complete set of inks will print | 120 pages |
| Ink cost per page | $0.27 |
| Cost per sheet of labels (2.5 x 5 inch blank labels) | $0.23 |
| Labels on each sheet | 3 labels |
| Total cost per label (Ink cost per page + cost per sheet of labels) / labels on a sheet | $0.17 |
| Total material cost if you print 2500 labels yourself | $425.00 |
| Cost of your time assuming 1 hour of setting up and aligning the label artwork to the label sheet | $25.00 |
| Total cost of printing 2500 labels yourself | $450.00 |
| Cost of 2500 labels printed by Rival Branding on premium quality paper and supplied on easy to manage rolls | $397.00 |
