MGS can provide a large selection of label facestocks to solve virtually any labeling application requirement, ranging from the simple paper to the special film materials. Just for the paper labels, we offer a multitude of possibilities, such as:

• Matte Paper
  The most usual and economic paper.
• Semi-Gloss Paper
  For a more appealing look.
• High-Gloss Paper
  For a classy look.
• Thermal Paper
  To use in thermal printers without using thermal-transfer ribbons.
• Thermal Paper with Protective Layer
  With a special layer that makes the printing more durable, protecting the label a little better against heat sources or grease.
• Special Paper for Inkjet Printers
  Bright paper that not only is suitable for a fast ink drying but also allows much better printing and color results.

Who said that labels must be made of paper? You can chose to have a label made of special materials and films in order to obtain a more refined look and/or to have higher label durability. Among other kinds, we highlight:

• Polyester (PET)
  Extremely durable, labels do not tear, are resistant to liquids and have high-quality look, available with a white or silver finishing.
• Polythene (PE)
  Durable, with a less glossy look, very commonly used in plastic bottles, cans and shampoos.
• Polypropylene (PP)
  Label have a good stiffness and are commonly used in cosmetic and house products.
• Vinyl/PVC
  Labels ideal for outdoors due to great weather resistance and that provide good optical reading.
• Destructible PVC
  Once applied, these labels are very difficult to remove because they break in little fragments.

If the label facestock material choice already is very important to meet the purpose of your label and conditions that it will face against, the adhesive is even more important. Selecting the right adhesive is crucial to guarantee that the label will not fall off after applied or to make sure that it won't damage your product, for example, when it's peeled off from a book. Among others, we highlight:

• Permanent
  Mostly used adhesive.
• Strong
  Stronger than normal for difficult surfaces.
• Removable
  The label can be removed from the product without leaving behind adhesive residues. Ideal for books and CD covers.
• Repositionable
  Besides being removable, the label can still be applied again in another product (up to a certain number of times).
• For frozen products
  Adhesive suitable for frozen products.
• Tires
  Adhesive for tire labels, rubbers and other difficult surfaces where normal adhesives do not adhere.
• Opaque
  Between the adhesive and the label, there is an extra black and opaque layer. Ideal to hide an outdated price or incorrect information printed in a product by mistake, as these labels are not see-through.
• No adhesive (Tags)
  Labels without glue that are usually to be hanged somewhere.

Labels that have a built-in RFID chip. You can store any kind of information on the RFID chip of your labels. There are several RFID antennas that you can chose from.

The VOID labels are ideal to seal your products. When removed, the label's adhesive leaves behind the word VOID. Even if that can be washed away with alcohol, the facestok of the label gets irreversibly damaged with the word VOID. You can print on the label, usually a phrase like "Guarantee void if label is removed or damaged" and are perfect to guarantee that your product was not opened.

We can supply your labels in rolls or in zig-zag packs (fan fold). We offer you the complete freedom when choosing the specifications for your labels, so that they can be used in any printer or applicator system.

• Form and Size of the Labels
  You can chose from hundreds of diecuts that we already have for a more economic prize or we can have a special diecut made with exact specification especially for your labels. Square and rectangular labels with rounder or right-angle corners, circular and oval labels, or in any irregular form you may need, anything is possible.
• Internal Core
  You can chose the internal diameter (D) of the roll's carton core, depending on what is suitable for your printer (25, 40 or 76mm).
• Horizontal Repetition (labels side-by-side)
  If your label roll is to be used on an automatic applicator machine, you can't have label repetition. If you're going to apply the labels manually on the products, it won't make any difference, but if you're going to print them on your printer and the width (L) of your label is small, it is advisable that you have 2 or more labels side-by-side, depending on the maximum width of your printer. With 2 labels side-by-side, not only you will print twice as fast (you get two at the same time), but also the life of your printer's printhead will duplicate, since you will distribute the wear along the whole width of the printhead. And with 3 labels side-by-side, the gains will be triple and so on. So, the more horizontal repetition you have, the better. And it is extremely easy to set the number of repetitions in our labeling software. You just have to specify the number of labels that are side-by-side and indicate the horizontal space between labels. And if you have counters and variable information, you can indicate, by selecting an option, if the horizontal repetition labels are to be exact copies or not. It's really easy.
• Number of Labels per Roll
  You have total freedom. If you tell us what printer you have, we can even do the rolls with the maximum number of labels that will fit in it, making sure that the total diameter of the roll will not exceed the limit of your printer. Like this, you will have less stops to change the label roll.

How do you want your labels?

• Without Printing
  Blank labels supplied in white (or in the original background color of the label material). Usually, the texts will be later on printed in the customer's printer and generally these labels are to be applied on pallets or cardboxes.
• With a Background Color
  Labels with a custom background color. Usually, the texts will be later on printed in the customer's printer, but because they are a little more appealing, they can already be applied on the final products.
• With High-Quality Flexographic Printing
  It is very important to make your product stand out and its label will make all the difference. Send us the images and we will print your labels using the latest flexographic techniques for the highest quality possible. Optionally, we can also give a varnish coating to the label, making the label more shiny and appealing as well as making the label more resistant.
• With Flexographic Pre-Printed Information (Partial)
  Similar to the previous method, but a special zone is reserved and left blank so that you can later print variable information yourself, using your printer. In case you want the varnish coating, a special print-cliché is made in a way that the varnish does not cover the reserved area, so that you won't have trouble when you later print over it.

When the labels to be printed are very few and the cost of making print-clichés are not justified and/or is necessary to print variable information but the customer does not have its own label printer, we can do the job for you in our thermal-transfer printers. Counters, expiration dates or variable information (it is necessary that you send us your database/spreadsheet), we can print exactly what you need. The eclipse printing, as we call it, is made in one color only (color of the ribbon). But we can also combine the print methods above, to do, for example, a label with a background color or the company logo in color.

For those who don't want an expensive solution, in order to make it easier to manually apply the labels on your products, we have several manual label dispensers. We have pistols to apply the labels directly on the boxes or label dispensers that only peel off the label from the backpaper for you.

We have many types of readers. Reading the standard 1D barcodes, the more complex 2D barcodes or even reading RFID labels does not have to be a headache.