Think a product label is just about identifying what’s in the box? Think again. Labels are about so much more, from compliance, traceability, and safety, to consumer trust and brand awareness. Good product packaging is not just a “nice-to-have”, it’s a lifeline.

When production scales, labeling either keeps up or it holds you back. The stakes are real: unplanned manufacturing downtime affects 82% of businesses and averaging $260,000 per hour. Labels should never be the reason your lines are idle. Label errors are more than a nuisance, they’re a top driver of recalls. In the U.S. food sector, label-related issues were the leading cause of 2024 recalls (~45%), with undeclared allergens driving the bulk of those events. Direct recall costs in food commonly average $10m per incident, before reputational damage.

But when the scale of operations grows, so does the scale of the labeling challenge. Enterprises producing millions of products across multiple markets every week face an often-overlooked risk: can their labeling systems keep pace with the sheer volume of printing required to keep business moving?

The Real Cost of Failing at Scale

Labels are only valuable if they are accurate, compliant, and delivered on time. But in high-volume environments, bottlenecks or downtime in the printing process can cause issues across the entire supply chain:

• Production stoppages when labels aren’t available at the right time.
• Regulatory risks if errors slip through under pressure.
• Brand damage when mislabeled products reach the market.

One of our customers, a leading global provider of customized solutions for healthcare, recently faced this exact issue, with increasing complexity of regulations, markets and languages, plus a growing volume of label changes and additions. As a result, the company recognized their existing in-house labeling solution could place them at risk of non-compliance. Governed by FDA regulations, errors anywhere in the labeling process could have resulted in labeling inconsistencies causing product recalls and punitive fines. This led them to look into alternative label and artwork management solutions to prevent errors once and for all.

Put simply: if your labeling system can’t handle high-volume printing reliably, your business growth will eventually outpace your labeling capabilities, and that’s a risk no enterprise can afford.

What Global Enterprises Really Need

Enterprises operating at scale require more than just a labeling “tool.” They need a full-function, enterprise-grade labeling system designed to deliver:

• Speed & scalability: the ability to print at volume without degradation in performance.
• Reliability & resilience: consistent, uninterrupted operation under even the heaviest loads.
• Compliance at scale: ensuring every label printed meets the regulatory and quality standards of its market.
• Integration across operations: working seamlessly across plants, geographies, and product lines.

This is not a luxury. It’s a baseline requirement for global manufacturers in regulated, high-volume industries.

Proven Capability at Global Scale

At Kallik, we understand these pressures because we work with enterprises that live them every day.  Some of the world’s biggest household names trust our Veraciti platform to manage their labeling and artwork at scale, across huge product portfolios and global markets.

This is where we really come into our own and enterprises see the true benefit of using a fully end-to-end platform, as our customer saw when facing the monumental task of rebranding thousands of products following a major acquisition. Over 9,000 products needed to be re-labeled whilst manufacturing continued uninterrupted at the existing plant, before subsequently migrating the recently acquired company production lines to brand new facilities, all with zero downtime.

For these businesses, high-volume printing is business as usual, and cloud-based, digital, end-to-end solutions like Veraciti ensure labels are delivered accurately, consistently, and on time, no matter the volume.

The Architecture That Makes High-Volume Printing Boring (in a Good Way)

So, how does Veraciti ensure labels are always delivered accurately and on time, no matter the volume? It's not magic; it's a meticulously designed architecture built for scale, resilience, and reliability. This is what makes high-volume printing “boring” in the best possible sense: it's predictable, stable, and requires no firefighting.

Event-Driven Job Orchestration: At its core, Veraciti uses an event-driven system. When a print job is created, it's published to a durable queue. This isn't just about lining up jobs; it’s about decoupling the print process from the rest of the system. This approach ensures that even if a printer is offline or busy, the job isn't lost; it simply waits. This system is designed with back-pressure to protect printers and networks from being overwhelmed.

Edge Print Agents with Store-and-Forward: Your on-premise print facilities are equipped with edge agents that hold a local queue and cache of templates. This is a critical component for resilience. If a wide-area network (WAN) link drops, the edge agent can continue printing from its local queue, ensuring no interruption to your production lines. When connectivity is restored, jobs and logs automatically reconcile with the central system, so there’s no need for manual intervention.

Active-Active Print Proxies: We don’t rely on a single print server, which would be a single point of failure. Instead, Veraciti uses multiple print proxies that operate in an active-active configuration, sharing traffic and workloads. Constant health checks and load balancing maintain consistent throughput during maintenance or unexpected failures, guaranteeing a seamless flow of labels to your printers.

Built-in Observability & Control: To keep operations running smoothly, you need real-time insight into what's happening on the ground. Veraciti provides per-site dashboards that expose critical metrics like queue depth, printer health, and job age. This gives your operations teams the power to proactively re-route demand or address issues before they can cause downtime.

Robust Security & Change Control: In regulated industries, security isn’t just about protecting data; it's about protecting product integrity. Veraciti incorporates robust security and change control features, including tight RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and electronic sign-off workflows that align with 21 CFR Part 11 guidance. This ensures that every label change is secure, authorized, and fully auditable, eliminating the risk of human error.

This architectural foundation is why Veraciti can handle the most demanding print volumes for global enterprises, ensuring your labeling operations remain a dependable and predictable part of your supply chain.

Why Veraciti Delivers Confidence

Veraciti is more than a label management solution. It is a fully functional, enterprise-class labeling platform built for resilience and scalability.

As our customer saw when they chose Veraciti to replace both its existing factory print supplier and artwork management system. The production and print facilities located in the existing site were connected to Veraciti™, removing any dependency on legacy IT and printing facilities. This gave transparency of label updates and print processes with full audit trails from day one.

And because Veraciti is cloud-based, it offers further enterprise advantages:

• Hosted with a reputable provider like AWS, data is triple-backed up to ensure continual availability.
• Zero IT burden — no need for your teams to install software, maintain servers, or purchase hardware.
• Group-wide efficiency — instead of siloed on-premise solutions, one cloud platform means print loads can be shared across sites, helping balance demand if one facility experiences heavy printing volumes.
• Unified reporting — with a single data source, enterprises can benchmark performance across sites, identifying and addressing bottlenecks with clarity.
• Peace of mind — Kallik offers 100% insurance-backed Business Continuity Plans, ensuring offline label printing capabilities in the rare event of network issues.

By ensuring that high-volume printing can be handled with ease — and supported by cloud resilience — Veraciti allows enterprises to focus on growth and innovation, not firefighting operational bottlenecks.

With Veraciti, global enterprises can be confident that their labeling operations will keep pace with their production demands — today, and in the future.

The Bottom Line

High-volume label printing isn’t just a technical consideration. It’s a mission-critical business capability. For global enterprises, the choice is clear: invest in a system that scales with you, or risk being held back by the weakest link in your supply chain.

That’s why the world’s most complex, regulated, and high-volume businesses trust Veraciti to keep their labeling operations running reliably, at scale, and without compromise.

If you want to know more about what a future-proof, end-to-end, fully digital labeling process looks like, speak to one of our labeling and artwork management experts today. Call +44 (0) 1827 318100 or email enquiries@kallik.com.