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| About Us |
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Baker Self Adhesive Label Co Ltd was started by Roy & Marian Baker in 1973. Based in the Kings Cross area with Marian & Roy’s old caravan as the offices!
As the business was new and work was still building up, Vic (who still works for Bakers) and Marian used to play hours of table tennis in the factory to keep themselves amused. The Company is now run by their son Steve.
Steve has formed an extremely capable management team around him to cope with the smooth production of labels.
Baker Labels now employ over 40 people, with a large number of those staff having been with us for over 10 years, some have even been here since the beginning!
Having worked for his father since he was 14, there is not much Steve doesn’t know about labels (a bit of a sad fact, some would say!). Over the years he has met almost impossible deadlines and equally impossible criterias.
Our customers range from large international companies to small new businesses. |
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| Bakers Wins "Adding Value" Award for Digital Print |
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January 2009. Baker Self Adhesive Labels Ltd. has won the “Adding Value” Award in a competition run by Digital Printer and Print Week Magazine that recognise achievements in digital printing technology.
The company scooped the Award with the Moo.com sticker for customised books. The stickers are produced on one of two, seven colour HP Indigo WS4500 and WS4050 digital presses in 3500 runs on a white gloss PVC substrate and are then laminated with polypropylene for durability.
“This award is the result of companies working together on new applications and demonstrates the versatility and quality of digital printing”, said Managing Director, Steve Baker. “Moo.com uses innovative web to print technology and sends us the variable data from its on-line library, PrintFinity. The stickers are then printed and die cut and delivered to Moo.com for subsequent conversion into personalised books for its customers. We are delighted to have received this award in the face of the strong growing competition in digital technology”. |
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| Baker Widens Digital Capability |
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March 2009. Label printer Baker Self Adhesive Labels Ltd. has increased its digital printing and converting capability with the installation of a Roland Soljet XC-540 ink jet printer/cutter. The 1,371mm wide-format installation will be used to print a range of products from posters, signs and point of purchase displays, to banners, and decals on paper, films and plastic materials.
“The purchase complements our existing HP digital printing presses and gives us maximum flexibility,” explained Steve Baker, Managing Director. “The maximum size we were previously able to print was just over A3. Now we can print to a maximum of 1346mm wide in any length at a maximum of 1440 dpi. The Roland also allows us to print very short runs of any shape as it has a built in cutting head. It will enable us to grow our key market in labels as well as enter new ones since we can now print larger labels, banners and signs as well as speciality promotional products”.
In order to get the best out of the installation, the company is sending Rob Shaw to a Digital Print Course run by the Roland Academy. The course covers media preparation, print quality standards, finishing and colour management. “The course will enable us to gain a better knowledge and understanding of the equipment and ensure we maintain the standard of quality our customers expect,” added Baker. |
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Baker Installs Quick Check 890 Barcode Verifier |
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June 2009. Baker Self Adhesive Labels has announced the installation of a Codeway, Quick Check 890 bar code verifier. The system tests major symbologies and industry applications against ISO/IEC 15416 bar code print quality test specification: linear symbols and traditional pass/fail parameters.
The QC890 is the first linear bar code verifier to earn the AdaptusÔ Imaging 5.0 Technology brand and delivers break-through linear imaging performance and versatility. Advanced signal processing improves the performance and accuracy needed for ISO Verification measurements. The system includes Intuitive User Feedback option for application specific “Good Read” LED and beeper settings coupled with Quick CheckÒ ImageData software set-up and operation. |
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| Baker Widens Digital Capability |
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September 2009. When Hopshackle Brewery needed a specialist label to mark its switch to bottled beer, the company looked to London-based converter Baker Self Adhesive Label.
‘The brief was to produce a cost effective label with a gold border to denote the individual character and quality of the beer,’ said Neil Marchant, digital and repro manager at Baker. ‘The metallic effect was achieved through the use of digital printing on a silver substrate using magenta and yellow inks to create the gold. A spot white was used on the non metallic part of the job which was finished with UV varnish and consecutive numbering for each label.’
‘We are moving away from supplying beer in barrels as it is easier to work with wholesalers,’ said Nigel Wright of Hopshackle Brewery. ‘Baker Self Adhesive Label suggested digitally printed labels for the job. They supplied an elegant, eye catching, metallic effect label that reflects the quality and individuality of our products. We are planning to launch a new range of specialist beers, initially in small quantities, so digital printing with its short run capability will give us the flexibility to promote the quality of each brand cost effectively.’.
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