Case Study: Thermal Ribbons Australia achieves consolidation of 100+ label templates and scalable custom-print capabilities with BarTender

Thermal Ribbons Australia consolidates 100+ labels and creates new custom print capabilities with BarTender

Thermal Ribbons Australia, a Brisbane-based ribbon manufacturer serving TTR resellers, label makers and contract packagers, had grown its custom-labeling service but relied on manual modification of more than 100 label templates—an error-prone, time-consuming process that risked POS incompatibilities and customer disruption. To address this, the company adopted BarTender Professional Edition to modernize and automate its labeling workflow.

BarTender consolidated 100+ templates into a single reusable core template linked to Excel/CSV databases, added conditional printing for about 30 customer‑specific box and ribbon templates, and deployed Print Station for network-wide printing. The result was dramatically reduced manual entry and errors, faster training and operations, scalable personalization without extra headcount, and a rapid ROI—BarTender paid for itself within weeks—freeing Thermal Ribbons Australia to focus on sales and growth.

Thermal Ribbons Australia

Ron Lusk

Owner