> ... labels for square front honey bears.  They
> would be 1 1/4 by 1 1/2 inches square?

All my labels are printed by Piedmont Label of
Bedford, VA, which is now owned by Smyth.

As Piedmont Label started out doing labels for
canned tomatoes (for reasons unknown, Bedford was
a nexus for tomato canning in the 1920s and 1930s),
they know all about doing food labels, and know
all the regulations for everywhere, planet-wide.

They also have a "money-saving approach" that should
make beekeepers who can plan ahead happy:

http://www.smythco.com/products/primary/combolbl.php

These folks are nowhere near the cheapest option one
could find, but you get what you pay for, even in
something as "trivial" as a label.


...but you want to make your own, to put on honey
you may have even already bottled, don't you?

          Sigh.

OK, go down to Staples, and get the pack of 600
Avery 8250 labels  (1" x 2-5/8") for $16.00.

Print them "two up" and then slice them in half
to make two labels, each 1" x 1 1/4".  But you
just spent over a penny per label, and you still
have to pay for ink for your ink-jet printer,
and your time.

Since you are designing labels, the label that
has consistently sold the most honey says:

     "We eat all we can, and sell the rest"

But we hope to have a new slogan that will
outperform the old one:

     "So good, you shouldn't even try it once"

But if labels are such an afterthought, you don't
really need labels at all, do you?


      jim  (EAS 2004 is in PA and is NEXT WEEK!!!
            Its just like my 11th birthday party was,
            except for taller attendees and no undercover cops
            http://www.easternapiculture.org/programs/2004/ )

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