Please review very carefully these design requirements below before uploading. The upload link can be found at the bottom of this page.Your labels must be uploaded and approved before you place your first private label coffee order.

  

Full-Color Labels

We provide high-resolution color labels, printed in-house, on our digital labeling system. We print and apply labels to stock or customer-supplied bags. Your graphic designer must create a complete, finished, edge-to-edge, ready-to-print file for each unique coffee you plan to order. We can dynamically print a sell-by-date in a specified white area on your label during production runs.

File Types:

• Submit only high-resolution PDF separated files. All fonts used must be embedded.
• Do not submit .ai, .eps, .jpg, .tiff, .png, or .bmp files. They will be rejected. 

Graphic Resolution:

• 300 dpi minimum
• Max 20mg file size 

Design:

• RGB (Color) or Gray Scale (Black & White) 
• No Anti-Alias Design 
• Keep any marketing content .125” minimum from the edge of the label.

Coffee Label Dimensions: (Portrait Mode)

• Front Label: 3” x 4” full color (3.125” x 4.125” needed for bleed printing)
• Back Label: 3” x 4” full color (3.125” x 4.125” needed for bleed printing) 

 Requirements for Bagged Coffee Labels

•  Legal name of Business or Organization
• City, State Zip of Business or Organization
• Web URL and/or Street Address
• Your Own Private Label Coffee Product Names
• Ground or Whole Bean Format
• Ingredients: Arabica Coffee or Organic Arabica Coffee
• Net Weights in both U.S. & Metric measurements 

Optional Label Information

• Logo, Taglines/Slogans, Brewing Instructions
• UPC Bar Code/Number (Bar code image must be embedded)
• FNSKU Bar Code/Number (Bar code image must be embedded)
• Product Descriptions (Roast Levels; flavors, etc.)
• USDA Certified Organic Logo (on approved products)
• Fair Trade Certified Logo (on approved products)
• Date Coding (We can dynamically print in a designated label area during production) 

USDA Certification Requirements:

Use of the USDA Organic logo or the word “Organic” on your label requires specific wording and vertical text positioning.

Download USDA Organic Logo Files 

Fair Trade Certified Label Requirements:

Use of the Fair Trade Certified™ logo, requires the proper text statement, Fair Trade Certified™ by Fair Trade USA™, placed just below the ingredients statement.

Download Fair Trade Certiifed Logo Zip File

USDA Certified Organic and Fair Trade Certified Text Statements:

Text size and font must be easily readable. Each respective logo can be used anywhere on your labels. 

Required Vertical Layout & Text:

Manufactured for Business Name or Distributed by Business Name
City State Zip (Street is required if no URL is on the package)
Certified Organic by MCIA
Ingredients: Organic Arabica Coffee
Fair Trade Certified™ by Fair Trade USA™

 

Sample Label Design and Vertical Layout for Required Text Statements

 

 

 Product Label File Upload

• Upload each front and back label separately for each coffee product size and format. 
• Use this link below to map our coffee product to your product label and upload one PDF label file at a time.

Click To Upload

Please allow 7 to 10 days for our testing. This also includes any changed label files you submit.

USDA registration is required prior to production (usually a 7 to 10-day turnaround), which we coordinate, and all registration fees are paid by us. Label files will be submitted for USDA Organic registration only after your opening order has been prepaid.

For questions contact us.