Labels - How do you control the number of product labels printed, scrapped and used?

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abraganza

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How important is it to control the number of labels printed versus used?
Device is Class I , CE marked.
Is there a good system or set of rules to follow?
Should the labels be serialized for tracking purposes?
 
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somashekar

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Re: Labels - How do you control the number of product labels printed, scrapped and us

How important is it to control the number of labels printed versus used?
Device is Class I , CE marked.
Is there a good system or set of rules to follow?
Should the labels be serialized for tracking purposes?
Hii and welcome here.
You will find some inputs about your question in the threads seen below in " Similar Discussion Threads "
Label control is indeed important, and your system can be based on the process whether you buy the labels or print them inhouse.
A very good control is to affix the label on the device records also which is maintained for the devices that are manufactured and labeled. Physically destroy unused labels if they can no more be used.
Serial number can also be per a numbering scheme that captures many other information and not necessarly a running serial number.
 
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MIREGMGR

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Re: Labels - How do you control the number of product labels printed, scrapped and us

We print the exact number of labels needed, plus one. The extra one goes on the back of the first page of the production work order package, with the production supervisor signoff that the label content has been checked.

We've determined over time that the infrequent cost to us of having to go back and print one or more additional labels to make up for spoilage, is much less than the constant cost we used to have for controlling (and assuring documented destruction of) overprint quantities.

We make some serialized products (durable equipment of various types), and many non-serialized but batch-coded products (disposables and short-life products). Serialized products are much more complicated for us, because we determine serial numbers in advance...thus each unit in product has a serial number well in advance of when it's married up to its labeling. In any case, serialization on labels is never our only, or primary, means of controlling label print quantities.
 

dzurn

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Re: Labels - How do you control the number of product labels printed, scrapped and us

Your label printing software might also be able to keep a log of all printed labels. The log can sometimes be customized to record a little or a lot of information.

This way, you can see which serial number labels have been printed and on which printer. That might help you find out where and when the extra labels are being printed, if that's the problem.

If you are just concerned with spoilage or printing unneeded labels, I would take the advice of MIREGMGR above, and print exactly the number of labels needed. Then if the line needs to print more, it's a sure sign that something went wrong, and you can use that as a trigger to look at where your labeling process is not working as expected.

Hope this helps.
Darryl
 

ScottK

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Re: Labels - How do you control the number of product labels printed, scrapped and us

I work for a label printer that serves many customers in the drug and device area.
the most common things we are asked for are:
- a core label with the exact count
- sequential Videojet coding on the back of the liner
- sequential Videojet coding on the front of the label
- serialized bar codes

when there is sequential numbering each roll of labels must have the start and end number documented either on the C of C and/or core label.

Most of our label product gets 100% inspected on strobe or video inspection units - this is when we would add the Videojet coding and get the exact count.
Serialized bar codes are done on a digital press.

When I did contract packaging we had to do a label reconciliation after every run of certain products. To facilitate this reconciliation we actually peeled portions of waste labels and stuck them to paper to get a count after the run. It worked well enough to meet the tolerance the customer was looking for.
 
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abraganza

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Re: Labels - How do you control the number of product labels printed, scrapped and us

Thanks for all your responses, they were helpful for us to set up a procedure, we have done some labels runs and everything has gone well so far.
 
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