Pollards Personalised Label Service

To be able to pack your coffee in personalised packaging we require a pdf label to print and put on
your bag. The label must meet the following criteria:

1) The label must measure 99mmx 138mm in portrait orientation.  

2) There must be a quiet area of 5mm around each edge. This means no straight lines, type or
information within this area.

3) The labels need the following information:

a) Name of the product.
b) Grind (in the case of coffee) which should be a drop down box with all the options of grind
size you wish to offer
c) A way of your customer contacting you. This could be an email address, telephone
number, website or a physical address.
d) a net weight. Again, this must be a dropdown box containing all the options you wish to
offer.
e) two auto populated fields - A “roasted on” (or “packed on” in the case of tea/chocolate)
and a “best before” field. The date in the roasted on field should default to the current date
and the best before field should be at some point in the future. We use 200 days for our
own products but you are free to choose whatever you like.

4) The label should not contain areas of solid colour. The labels are printed by an industrial inkjet
printer. If you have solid colours, then there is a risk that any blocked jets will stand out like a sore
thumb. This is particularly true when you have dark block colours. Instead consider using 50%
colours or patterns.

5) Once you are ready to let us have the label, please save it into a folder on dropbox.com ( the
accounts are free) and then share this folder with dropbox@pollards.com. We are happy to help
you with this if you need it. By sharing your label in this way, you keep the master copy and should
you wish to make any changes in the future, they will be on our print server within minutes.

To help you with these, we have attached a sample label which includes the drop down boxes and a
script to auto populate the date fields. There are other fields which deal with the alignment of the
printing when the label is printed. Fee free to use this as the basis of your label.

We regret that we are unable to process any orders on our drop shipping service that do not meet
these criteria. We are happy to discuss any changes you may want to make to these but can not
guarantee we will be able to work with them. If your designer is struggling with the fields, we are
also able to add these fields to your designed label for £25 per label.