Best Computer Program for making labels?

[Marion David Poff]

Good Day,

My girlfriend is starting a new business, making natural pet food, and she is looking for a good computer program for label making and other printing stuff related to the business.

Any ideas?

Is this the right place to post this?

I think that she would almost be better off contracting a print shop to do this stuff. What do you think?

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[starscreamj]

I don't know anything about wisthles, but if you use windows the easiest good program for labels and such is Microsoft Office Publisher, my wife uses it for her labels in her small business, btw this page was done in publisher
http://www.turbopegasus.com/redroverkids/

hope this helps

 

[coletassoft]

Try Photoshop and or Freehand, and then you will always be able to send it to a printing shop. Take it from someone makes a living from it.

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[Dr van Nostrom]

If you can I would get the label designed/set up in a pro graphics program like Photoshop/Illustrator/Freehand then you can take them to a print shop and get a number of digital prints run off. When you run out take the disk back and they will run out some more..... that would be my route (as a Graphic designer), it may cost you a little more but people will take the product more seriously w/ a proffessional looking label.

 

[JohnG]

I concur with the Dr

....there are some great software packages, but you end up getting less-than-satisfactory results with the usual home printers, especially when it comes to color and running larger quantities.

Quick print places can be kind of reasonable if you shop it, don't need it tomorrow, and do your cards, labels, letterhead, and flyers all at once with the artwork ready to go.

 

[shadowfax]

photoshop is excellent for graphics but I find it's hard to make labels that look exactly as you want them to because it's not designed as a layout program. Pagemaker would be the better choice here.

Also, either invest in a very good laser printer or take everyone else's suggestion and shop the actual printing out to a real printhouse. The practical solution, of course, is to get your own laser printer because you'll want to be sending out mailings to customers and won't want to have to get new labels printed every time someone signs up for your mailing list.