There’s long been a debate over which is better – canned beer or bottled beer. In one of the early seasons of Mad Men there’s a great scene where Don Draper is looking after Heineken’s US marketing account. 1960s America isn’t used to bottled beer, or European beer for that matter, and Don has the […]

Pressure-sensitive self-adhesive labels are the most common form of labelling for modern packaging; especially for glass bottle labels. These labels can be printed in the Label and Litho factory using digital or conventional printing presses, using a variety of different stock. An issue we sometimes encounter with labelling is bubbling – which will occur when […]

PrintEx is a showcase of over 8,000 printing and packaging industry professionals, and was this year held in Sydney. The expo is an opportunity for industry experts to highlight new ideas, information, tools and machinery, to help advance the printing world. Label and Litho directors Hamish Kincaid and Angus Kincaid travelled to PrintEx15 to check […]

This year’s Pride in Print Awards were held at Wellington’s TSB Arena, hosted by Jeremy Corbett and Ali Mau. The annual event is a chance for the country’s label, print and packaging experts to showcase label innovation and advances in printing technologies.   Category winners came from a broad range of printers and print solutions, […]

Label and Litho Director Angus Kincaid recently attended the AUSPACK 2015 Exhibition in Melbourne where he spent two days scouring the exhibitors’ stands for innovative packaging and processing solutions. AUSPACK is the largest biennial packaging and processing machinery and materials exhibition in Australia and attracts exhibitors from across Australasia. We see the packaging world evolving […]

With the rise in craft beer brands over the past couple of years we’ve seen certain trends start to emerge, particularly when it comes to beer labelling practices. With over 100 craft beer brands now on the New Zealand market, and craft beer making up only 2% of the domestic beer market, having a beer […]

The team at Label & Litho are committed to maintaining a high level of sustainable business practice. Although printing labels may not have the best reputation in terms of sustainability, the printing industry has become extremely environmentally sensitive over the past 20 years and quick to adapt new sustainable practices. In 2013 we were the proud […]

We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again – We love beer labels! We are very honoured to have been asked by the Curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library to provide copies of our beer labels and wine labels for the Ephemera Collection. ‘Ephemera’ is material published for short term use which includes printed labels, […]

The team at Label & Litho have gone down the rabbit hole, to explore the psychology of design when it comes to wine labels. Since addressing colour, and the different emotions they evoke, we now look at spacing, lines and shapes. There is not a lot of room on your typical wine label, so it’s important […]

We can’t believe it! It’s been a year since we moved from our old factory to our new one. And what a great year it has been. To celebrate the anniversary of our move, we’ve had the GoPro videos we recorded of the move edited and have published them here to give a sneak peak at what […]