Label Design · South Africa
Product Label Design in South Africa
Digital Consulting designs product labels for South African businesses: food, drink, cosmetic and candle labels that look good on the shelf and are ready for your printer. Every label is drawn in vector, with the bleed and cut line set to your printer’s specs. Contact us for a free quote.
Got labels your printer can’t use? Digital Consulting redraws them in vector and keeps the look you already have. Cape Town based, working with businesses across South Africa.
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Print-ready filesPDF and EPS, text to outlines
Drawn in vectorsharp on any size of label
Contact for quotea clear price before we start
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Label Design South Africa
Labels that sell on the shelf and print right first time
A label has two jobs: catch a shopper’s eye and give your printer a file it can use.
Digital Consulting designs product labels for South African businesses, from one jar label to a full range of flavours. We design the look, set the text and draw the illustrations, then build the file the way your printer asks for it.
Many labels fail at the printer. Labels made in a design app or with AI are often image files with soft text and no bleed. Printers can’t use them as they are. Digital Consulting draws every label in vector, so it stays sharp at any size.
You get print-ready PDFs with the text converted to outlines, bleed all round and a separate cut line. Digital Consulting keeps a master template on file, so your next product or reprint is quick.
Labels we design
Any label that goes on a product, designed for the shelf and set up for the printer.
Food labels
Pies, frozen meals, sauces, jams and baked goods, with clear space for ingredients, allergens and a best-before date.
Drink labels
Wine, beer, gin, juice and cold-drink labels, sized to your bottle and the label roll your printer uses.
Cosmetic and candle labels
Skincare, soap and candle labels that look premium on a small jar, tin or bottle.
Label ranges
One master template for every flavour or scent, so the whole range looks like one family and new products are quick to add.
Label redraws
Labels made in Canva, Word or with AI, redrawn in vector so your printer can use them, keeping the look you have.
Round labels and stickers
Round, oval and custom-shape labels and stickers, with the cut line drawn to the exact shape.
Also: swing tags, hang tags and product stickers. Need a logo or a brand first? See our graphic design services.
Label design work: Weskus Padstal pies
Seven frozen pie labels for Weskus Padstal, a West Coast padstal near Yzerfontein.
The brief
Weskus Padstal’s pie labels were image files that the printer could not use. Digital Consulting redrew all seven in vector, kept the look the padstal’s customers know and set up every file for print.
What Digital Consulting did
- Redrew 7 labels, each 150 mm round, in vector
- Cleaned up six navy illustrations and one full-colour one
- Flagged gaps in the ingredients and allergens for the client to confirm, then set the approved text
- Added a storage line and a best-before box
- Two rounds of proofs at actual size
- Print files in PDF and EPS with the text to outlines, 3 mm bleed and a separate cut line
How label design works
1BriefSend us your product, the label size and your printer’s specs, plus your old label if you have one. We agree the price upfront.
2DesignWe design your label or redraw the one you have in vector, with your logo, colours and text.
3ProofsYou check a proof at actual size and send us one combined round of changes.
4Print filesWe send print-ready files to you or your printer. We keep the master template for your next product.
What a label design job includes
Every label job is quoted upfront: one once-off price for the labels you need.
Label design
Contact for quoteA clear, once-off price before we start
- A new label design or a vector redraw of the label you have
- Illustrations drawn or cleaned up in vector
- The text set for every label in your range
- Proofs at actual size and one round of changes
- Print-ready PDF and EPS files with the text to outlines
- Bleed and cut line set to your printer’s specs
- A master template kept on file for new products and reprints
Printing and label stock are not included: your printer quotes for those. Digital Consulting can send the files straight to them.
Ways to get a product label made
An honest look at the options, so you can choose what suits your product.
| Digital Consulting | Doing it yourself (Canva or AI) | Your printer’s design service | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A file your printer can use | Yes: bleed, cut line and text to outlines, set to your printer’s specs | Only if you set up the bleed, cut line and colours yourself | Yes, for that printer |
| Sharp at any size | Yes, drawn in vector | AI tools and photos make image files, which can print soft | Depends on the printer |
| A range that matches | One master template for every product | Up to you to keep consistent | Depends on the printer |
| Files you keep | Your PDF and EPS files are yours | Yes | Ask before you start |
| Cost | Contact for quote, once-off | Free or low-cost tools, plus your time | Ask your printer for a quote |
Label design: FAQs
Label design at Digital Consulting is quoted per job, once-off, so you know the price before we start. The price depends on how many labels you need, whether we design from scratch or redraw a label you have and how many illustrations it needs. Contact us for a free quote.
You get a print-ready PDF and an EPS file for each label, in CMYK, with all the text converted to outlines so no fonts are needed. The artwork has bleed all round and the cut line comes as a separate file, set up the way your printer asks. Digital Consulting keeps a master template for reprints.
Yes. Labels made with AI or in a design app are often image files that printers can’t use. Digital Consulting redraws them in vector, keeps the look you already have and sets up the bleed and cut line, so you get clean files your printer can print.
No. Digital Consulting designs the labels and sends the print-ready files to you or straight to your printer. Your printer quotes for the printing and the label stock. We set the files up to their specs and suggest a single test label before the full run.
Your logo (a vector file if you have one), the text for each label and your printer’s specs: the label size, the bleed, how they want the cut line and whether the label stock is white or cream. If you already have labels, send those too. Then we quote and get started.
We point out anything that looks wrong or missing (such as an allergen that isn’t listed) and ask you to confirm it. You supply and approve all the label text and are responsible for it meeting South Africa’s labelling rules. Digital Consulting sets the text exactly as you approve it.
For a redraw of labels you already have, Digital Consulting aims to send proofs within two working days and the final files one working day after your feedback. A new design with new illustrations takes longer. You get a date with your quote, so you can plan your print run.
Get a free label design quote
Tell us about your product and your printer. We’ll come back with honest advice and a clear price, with no obligation.