Category: Blog
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Prepress File Preparation for Care Labels: Where Print Quality Is Won or Lost.blog 13
When a printing factory delivers care labels with poor print quality, the problem isn’t always the printing technology itself. When I first started learning prepress file preparation, I created a prepress document for a Miffy wash care label. Our master printer spent an entire night working with my plate — and no matter how hard…
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What Did Ruan Qiuyue, the Printed Label Maker, Do Right to Receive Gifts from Customers Again and Again.blog 12
My name is Ruan Qiuyue, and I’m a second-generation owner of a Printed Label Manufacturers. Many salespeople have worked in this industry for 20 years without ever receiving a gift from a customer. I’ve only been in the business for 2 years, and this Mid-Autumn Festival, two clients sent me gifts one after another. One…
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How to Make Color Satin Care Labels? Halftone Overprinting Is the Dividing Line in Flexo Printing— Practice Journal by Ruan Qiuyue, a Second-Generation Label Maker.blog 11
Who I Am, and Why I’m Writing This I’m Ruan Qiuyue — a second-generation owner of a woven care label factory. Care labels (also called wash labels or garment tags) are the small labels sewn into garments, plush toys, and other textiles, indicating fabric composition and washing instructions. When fellow label makers encounter color printing…
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What Happens When Your Entire Team Takes Leave? A Care Label Factory Owner’s August Survival Story. blog10
The August Leave Peak: Running a Small Wash Care Label Factory with Human TouchAugust is the peak season for employee leave in China. Some workers send their children back to their hometowns before school starts; others take their kids on summer vacations. Running a small wash care label manufacturing facility requires human touch. Our daily…
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One step closer to becoming the Wash Care Label King—please call me Technician Ruan.blog 9
Just returned from Zhaoqing after learning how to operate printed wash care labels machinery. I didn’t expect “Technician Ruan” to get the chance to step up to the line so soon. Normally, our label manufacturer operates almost seven days a week, so there are never any idle machines for me to practice on and get…
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I made a special trip to the equipment manufacturer to learn how to operate the care label printing machine; in this industry, mere familiarity isn’t enough—mastery is essential.blog 8
Why travel to the equipment manufacturer to learn how to operate the care label printing machine? When it comes to understanding equipment performance, I believe that learning the fundamentals from the manufacturer’s technicians offers a more systematic and standardized approach than learning back at our own factory. Back in our workshop, I was always asking…
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Producing fabric labels: I don’t fear high client standards—I fear having no standards at all.blog 7
To be honest, I’m not exactly thrilled about spending my days buried in the workshop, cutting printed fabric labels. After all, my primary role is promotion—getting our factory noticed by clients who need high-quality fabric labels. Spending the whole day on this task leaves me almost no time for marketing. But I have no choice;…
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To produce high-quality wash care labels, you need not only a skilled color matcher but—even more importantly—a thorough mastery of the artwork and technical specifications yourself.blog 6
When Teacher Zhang visited our factory to help with planning, he was surprised to find that the crucial step of creating the artwork for our complex, multi-colored gradient wash care labels was being handled by an external publishing company. He strongly advised us to master this core technology in-house. Coincidentally, my computer was infested by…
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Technical knowledge is an essential skill for an outstanding care label sales representative.blog 5
Many people say that as the future successor of the wash care label factory, I don’t need to learn everything—I just need to handle the sales side of things well. But how can I handle sales effectively if I don’t understand the product? Ruan Qiuyue refuses to take that approach.99% of salespeople are ignorant in…
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Rather incur higher costs for care labels than ever betray our customers’ trust.blog 4
While conducting a routine inspection of the workshop this morning, I happened to run into the order coordinator and the technician; they were anxious because the printing plate for a rush order of wash care labels was missing some content. That is the nature of production—unexpected issues always arise. We had already produced a sample…