Have An A4 Day!

As specialist suppliers of A4 sheets of labels, here's our answers to your FAQs about A4 labels.

Why do you only sell A4 sheets?
There are a number of reasons why we decided to specialise in A4 sheets of labels, but they generally have one thought in common. By choosing to focus on one kind of product only, we are able to offer better choice, better despatch times, better advice, and better customer care.

• Better choice: by selecting only A4 stock, we are able to choose the best options within that group of products and make them available to our customers. We can find labelling options that are compatible with the desktop laser and inkjet printers that are readily available to most people, meaning they have the freedom to print exactly what they want, when they want.
• Better despatch times: by having a specific group of products that we can supply, we are able to keep many items in stock, which means they are available for same day despatch.
• Better advice and customer care: by focusing on A4 sheets, we can offer in-depth knowledge of this particular kind of product, rather than offering a more limited knowledge of multiple products. We use A4 sheets of labels ourselves on a day-to-day basis, meaning we know how our labels work – or at least how they are supposed to – and we have experience dealing with problems that customers may encounter.

Why are my sheets of labels slightly bigger/smaller than A4?
An A4 sheet is defined as being 297mm x 210mm.

In the manufacturing industry many goods have a “tolerance” applied to their specifications – a tolerance is a range that the product must sit within to meet a pre-determined standard. A tolerance may be applied to all kinds of specifications including dimensions, weight, quantity, and colour. Quite often a tolerance is described as a percentage; for example, a product that is produced in batches of 500 may be given a tolerance of +/- 10% – so 450 or 550 items may be produced in a “successful” batch. With A4 sheets, there is usually a tolerance of 1-2mm in both the height and the width of a sheet, and it is quite common to find that an A4 sheet doesn’t measure 297mm x 210mm exactly.

Why don’t you have a label that is XXmm by XXmm?
The sizes that we offer are determined by the sizes that will best fit on an A4 sheet with minimal waste material between and around the labels. Many of our square cut corner rectangular labels have sizes that are determined by simply dividing an A4 sheet equally into rows and columns to create labels of an equal size. For sheets with spaces between the labels, the size is usually determined by having as big a label as possible while keeping the gaps between them to around 2mm to prevent large areas of material being wasted.

Sizes that do not fit onto an A4 sheet are more likely to be available on rolls – the only requirement for roll labels is that the width of the label doesn’t exceed the width of the roll, and rolls can be produced in all kinds of widths.