Custom Hang Tags

Custom hang tag printing

A hang tag is a small piece of print doing a large job. It carries the price, the size, the care instructions and the brand, and on a shelf it is often the only thing distinguishing your product from the one beside it.

We print hang tags on card stock, die cut them to shape, drill or punch the hole and can string them if needed. Because they are small, they gang up efficiently on a sheet, which makes them one of the cheaper pieces to produce in volume.

Building a tag that survives

Stock weight

Too light and the tag creases in a shipping carton or bends the first time someone flicks through a rail. Cover weight board is the usual answer, heavier for anything hanging on a garment that will be handled repeatedly.

The hole, and reinforcement

The hole is where a tag fails. Place it too close to the edge and it tears out. A metal eyelet or a reinforced patch solves it on tags that take real load, such as anything hanging from a hook rather than a garment.

Coatings

Lamination protects against scuffing in transit, which matters because tags are attached before shipping and arrive having rubbed against everything else in the carton. Matte laminate also takes pen better than gloss if anything is written on by hand.

Stringing and attachment

Cotton string, elastic, plastic barbs or safety pins. Decide this early because it changes the hole size and sometimes the tag shape.

Variable data on tags

Sizes, SKUs, barcodes, prices and serial numbers can all change from tag to tag in a single pass through variable data printing. That is how a run of ten thousand tags covers an entire size and colour matrix without printing ten thousand identical tags and sorting them by hand.

Beyond retail

The same production runs horticultural tags and pot stakes on weather-tolerant stock, plus asset tags, inspection tags and event credentials. If it is a small die cut card with a hole in it, it runs here.