Manufacturers Adapt to GHS Labelling Requirements with QuickLabel Digital Label Printers In-House
With the December 2010 deadline for labelling “chemical substances” under the GHS labeling standards required by the UN Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, manufacturers of chemical substances are taking quick action to purchase GHS labels and label printing systems for compliance. Manufacturers of all other chemical products, considered “chemical mixtures,” are also taking the decision to adopt GHS labelling standards now, in advance of their own deadline for GHS labeling compliance by June 2015.
Owners of a QuickLabel digital colour label printer will enjoy a seamless transition to compliance with GHS labeling, with the ability to print the required pictograms in the required colours on their primary display labels and secondary package labels, whether they need GHS labels for pharmaceuticals, GHS labels for cleansers and industrial chemicals, or GHS labels for pesticides.
Print GHS Labels in Full Color with QuickLabel Printers:
GHS compliant labels can be printed in the same printing process as full-colour product photos and brand graphics are printed with the toner-based production-capacity Vivo! digital colour label press.
To print secondary labels that meet the requirement that chemical labels have a minimum of two colours. QuickLabel Systems also offers the QLS-2000 Xe, a 2-colour thermal transfer label printer that allows chemical manufacturers and distributors to quickly print labels in any two colours. The QLS-2000 Xe is a digital label printer much like a barcode printer, except that it can print text, barcodes, symbols, logos, and other graphics in two colours instead of just a single colour. Label colours are printed with the use of thermal transfer ribbon, a kind of dry printing ink.
Print GHS Pictograms on Labels:
With your own digital colour label printers, you can print any required GHS label pictograms in any colour. GHS labeling pictograms may be red and black, red and yellow, red and white, red, black, and white, orange and black, green and black, green and white, blue and black, blue and white, black and white, or yellow. Your QuickLabel colour label printer can easily print each colour code label.
Print GHS Compliant Labels Instantly:
As soon as a product label design has been approved, finished labels can be printed in minutes. A QuickLabel colour label printer is the most cost-effective way to print GHS labels fast. Chemical producers with QuickLabel printers will not experience delays in packaging or shipping products after adopting GHS labelling standards.
GHS Compliant Label Materials
GHS labels must be chemical-resistant, abrasion-resistant, UV light resistant, weather-resistant, and must utilize a marine-grade label adhesive in order to satisfy GHS label standards for permanence. QuickLabel sells several compliant GHS label stocks. We will give you a GHS label quote in any label size.
What are GHS Labeling Requirements?
GHS labels must include: a product identifier; a signal word (either Category 1 “Warning” or Category 2 “Danger”), standardized hazard statements corresponding to health, physical, and environmental hazard class, hazard symbols/hazard pictograms, precautionary statements, and the name, address, and the telephone number of the chemical manufacturer, importer, or other responsible party
About GHS Labeling:
GHS has been adopted in Europe and is in the process of adoption in the United States, Canada, and many other industrialized nations. The goal of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) is to create a single way to describe and classify chemical hazards on product labels and chemical Safety Data Sheets (SDS) used everywhere in the world. With standardized label content in the form of standardized chemical classifications, standardized hazard statements, standardized signal words, and standardized graphic symbols and colours, producers, workers, and consumers in every country will share an understanding of the potential human health hazards posed by chemicals.
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