reduce annual labeling budgets by as much as 40 %.
“ You can run through a couple million thermal labels faster than you think ,” says Russell Gayer , manager of printing services for a major U . S . meat processor . In addition to managing the in-house print facility , Gayer has experience sourcing labels at the corporate level .
According to Gayer , Fortune 500 food processors can utilize hundreds of millions of labels per month . Even comparably smaller operations of $ 200 million or more in annual revenue can have label budgets that exceed $ 250,000 a year .
For meat and poultry , specifically , the information that appears on the label varies depending on whether or not it is a processed or prepared meat or poultry product , or an
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