Standard Labels

What Are Standard Labels

Standard labels are custom-printed adhesive stickers supplied as individual cut pieces rather than on a roll, printed full color or black only in 55 sizes from .375" x 1" up to a 4" x 6" oval, on any of 5 materials. People reach for them when a job needs a flat, hand-applied sticker: product and packaging labels, jar and bottle labels, food and canning labels, address and shipping labels, price and barcode stickers, and event giveaways. Because they ship as loose pieces, they suit shorter runs a roll label would overshoot. If you need labels that feed through an applicator instead, the Roll Labels cover that, and the standard label sits right beside it as the hand-applied version.

What Size and Shape Should a Standard Label Be

The right size comes down to what you are sticking it on. A .375" x 1" rectangle fits a barcode or a small price tag. Round labels from a half inch up to 4.5" seal envelopes and cap jar lids. Ovals wrap bottles cleanly, and a full 4" x 6" panel fronts a product box. There is even a dedicated 4.625" CD label for discs. The list and the specs panel below show all 55 sizes, both corner styles and the full material list. For a fully custom outline, the Custom Labels go beyond the set shapes, and the Standard Round Labels focus on circles alone.

• Rectangles and squares: 34 sizes, from .375" x 1" to 4" x 5", including a 1" x 2.625" address label.
• Circles: 13 sizes, from .5" to 4.5" across.
• Ovals and CD: 7 ovals from .75" x 1.5" to 4" x 6", plus a 4.625" CD label.
• Materials: Standard Uncoated, Semi-Gloss, Hi-Gloss, White Vinyl or Clear.
• Ink: 4/0 full color or 1/0 black only.
• Corners: rounded 1/8" radius or square.
• Quantity: 25 to 25,000 labels in 30 tiers, up to 12 sets per order.
• Production: 3 business days standard, with 2-day, Next Day and Same Day options.
• Proof: straight to production, a free online proof or a next day hardcopy proof.
• Files: your art on a blank label template at trim size, or a design template edited online.

Three choices decide how a standard label holds up where you stick it.

Match the material to the surface

Standard Uncoated is the writable paper default, cheap and easy to mark by hand. Semi-Gloss and Hi-Gloss add sheen so color pops on a product or food label. White Vinyl shrugs off moisture and handling for bottles and anything that gets wet. And Clear film prints on transparent stock so the surface underneath shows through for a no-label look on glass and packaging. Pick the material for where the label lives: the fridge, the shelf or the mailbox.

Square the corners or round them off

Every standard label comes with rounded 1/8" corners by default, which look finished and resist peeling at the edge. If you want a hard edge to line up against a box seam or a shelf tag, switch to square corners in the configurator. The choice does not change the price, so pick whichever suits the design and the surface.

Design it without a designer

Start from a professionally built layout in our label design templates, then change the colors, copy and logo in the online editor in minutes. On a .375" x 1" price sticker one line of type fills the label, while a 4" x 6" oval has room for a product name, a short description and a barcode.

If you already have artwork, skip the editor and download a press-ready blank instead. Each blank label template is built at the real trim size with the bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your design never crowds the cut. Grab the size that matches your order below, drop your art in, and upload.

How Much Do Standard Labels Cost

Standard labels start at $23.88 per set of 25, and the per-label price keeps dropping as the quantity climbs toward 25,000, so the run size sets the unit cost. A run of 100 is $42.72, 500 run $74.14, and 1,000 labels are $99.27, with the best-rated quantity landing around 100. Count the jars or boxes you fill in a month, set that number on the slider below, and read the set total and the per-label cost.

Full Color or Black Only

Standard labels print two ways: 4/0 full color for anything with a logo, a photo, or brand color, or 1/0 black ink only when the label is text alone. Black-only is the cheaper pick for barcodes, addresses, and warning labels where color adds nothing, while full color suits product, food and packaging labels that carry a logo or a photo on a shelf. You set the ink coverage in the configurator alongside the material, so a plain shipping label and a glossy product label both come from the same product page.

How Do Standard Labels Compare to the Rest of the Range

If you are weighing standard labels against a fully custom shape, a roll format or round-only labels, the chart below lines up the closest siblings with the starting price of each.

See How a Finished Label Lands

The gallery below collects labels our own customers printed in-house: clear film on glass, white vinyl on bottles, gloss on product boxes, across different sizes and shapes. Use it to see how a material reads on a jar or a box and borrow ideas. Tap any print to see it larger.

How Fast Can You Get Standard Labels

Standard labels print on a 3 business day standard turnaround, and when a date sneaks up you can move that to 2-day, Next Day or even Same Day production. Each step buys back time for a set percentage on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same Day orders must be approved by noon EST to ship that day. Compare every turnaround tier in the configurator and see exactly what the rush adds before you pick.

Print Your Standard Labels Today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it's backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Whatever size, material or shape you pick, each standard label ships as a flat cut piece ready to apply by hand. Need them before a launch or a shipment? Our Same Day production keeps you covered. Print your standard labels today.