From a single project run to a standing call-off, custom printed tape delivered into Exeter and the wider Devon area from stock held in the Golden Triangle.
Custom Printed Tape is available to Exeter businesses from WSUK's Midlands base. The sequence is specification, sample where anything is bespoke or printed, then supply into EX1-EX6 - with stockholding and call-off where the quantities make that sensible. Exeter is About 175 miles / 3 hours from our Bilston, Wolverhampton operation.
The materials, specified against your SKUs - including the recommendation to drop the sizes that nearly fit and the second tape that is doing the first tape's job.
One-off runs and standing call-off schedules both work into EX1-EX6. The run is produced once, held About 175 miles / 3 hours from Exeter, and drawn down as you need it.
Regional distribution, agri-food, science and research, and tourism retail. Each fails differently, so each needs its own specification - which is why we work per SKU group rather than applying one house standard across a mixed range.
If you draw a map of Exeter's industrial land it follows M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376 closely, which is why Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter Business Park and Skypark ended up where they did. EX1-EX6 covers it all. The businesses despatching from there have the same three packaging questions as everyone else - does it fit, does it protect, and what is it costing delivered - and very few have answers.
Deliveries into EX1-EX6 come from the Golden Triangle, About 175 miles / 3 hours from Exeter on M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376. The practical consequence for a Exeter business is that reorder lead times are transport times rather than manufacturing times, and that bespoke or printed lines are affordable because the run is produced once and drawn down over months.
Exeter's trade mix - Regional distribution, agri-food, science and research, and tourism retail - shapes what packaging the area gets through. Different sectors fail differently: manufactured and engineered goods are usually a load and corrosion problem, retail and online stock is usually a movement and carrier-band problem, and food and consumer goods sit somewhere between the two. Specifying from the sector rather than from a catalogue is most of the work.
Tape is specified by material, width and print. Polypropylene is the general-purpose choice; vinyl is tougher and quieter off the roll and suits heavier cases; paper tape, including gummed paper, is the recyclable option and goes into kerbside collection with the box. Widths are matched to hand dispensers or to whatever case sealer is on the bench in Exeter.
More colours or more coverage? Each additional colour is another plate and another pass, and a reversed-out design that floods the background uses considerably more ink than the same design printed dark on tan. A simple one-colour print across a Exeter business's whole despatch volume usually does more for recognition than an elaborate print it orders half as often.
Plenty of Exeter businesses are paying for storage of their own packaging without thinking of it that way. Board is bulky and low in value per cubic metre, so a corner of a unit given over to it is usually the most expensive square metre in the building.
M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376.
About 175 miles / 3 hours from our Bilston, Wolverhampton site.
Regional distribution, agri-food, science and research, and tourism retail.
The Exeter estates and nearby places we supply alongside the city itself:
Exeter firms tend to come to us with a damage problem or a delivered-cost problem. Both are specification problems, and both are easier to fix from held stock About 175 miles / 3 hours away than from a new production run.
We are straight with Exeter businesses about what is worth changing and what is not. If a standard line does the job, or a substitution would increase damage, we will say so rather than sell it.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Exeter.
Materials and sizes chosen for the product and the journey.
Priced against the specification, with a physical sample on anything bespoke or printed.
Delivered into EX1-EX6, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Custom Printed Tape in Exeter at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes, and they need different specifications. Online orders are about carrier size bands and network handling; manufactured goods are about stack load, restraint and corrosion. Plenty of Exeter businesses now do both and need both answered.
You do not need to know. Describe the product, how it travels from Exeter and what is going wrong now, and specifying it is our job. If you already have a line list, send it and we will tell you what we would change.
Yes - distance is not the constraint, evidence is. Send us damaged returns or photographs of how items arrive and we can specify against the actual cause rather than adding protection and hoping.
No, and it is a deliberate structure rather than a gap. Packaging is held centrally in the Midlands so that run quantities of printed and bespoke lines can be stocked without any single customer paying for the space - and so a reorder from Exeter is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
One to three colours is typical and covers most brand marks. Tell us the artwork and we will confirm what reproduces cleanly at tape width.
Polypropylene, vinyl and paper. Paper tape is the one to choose if you want a single-material corrugated pack that goes into kerbside recycling without the customer separating anything.
Custom Printed Tape is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Exeter. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply custom printed tape throughout the UK from Midlands stock. These are the nearest locations with a page of their own - the full list is on the packaging services hub.
Fifty-nine pages: 58 product ranges across six material families, each with its specification table, plus the postal, retail, industrial, bespoke and sustainable sections and how an enquiry is specified and quoted.
Send us your current line list or a photograph of a typical pack from your Exeter operation, and we will tell you what we would change.