Tag Finishing Service

Tag Finishing Service is the process of putting an elastic string into a paper material tag allowing it to hang onto the item to be sold. Now this tag is called a hang tag. You may have seen hang tags on items in the grocery store as a coupon around the neck of the container. The coupon may offer a discount, which is intended to encouraging you to purchase the item. This type of hang tag can be used as a promotional hang tag, a coupon hang tag, a price tag, or a luggage hang tag. Now that you understand what a hang tag is, let me explain how this process is done.

For the most part this is a service that is provided to printing companies or to the printing department of a large company that has their own inside printing shop. Let us say that a customer had 500,000 pre-drilled printed tags that they need a 1½"white elastic string attached to them to hang around the neck of a wine bottle. After the printing company has printed the tag they outsource this service to a specialized company that have automatic tag finishing machines. Once we receive the tags the first thing that is done is:

1. Unpack the tag and began to spindle them. Spindling is the process of putting the tags on a thin rod to later put them onto the machines' elevator.
2. Load the spindled tag onto the machines elevator. The elevator will allow the tags to automatically advance until all of the hang tags have been strung with white elastic string.
3. There is a pick up arm that will come across and pick up the tag at the top of the elevator, one tag at a time.
4. When the arm picks up the tag it will then have the string in that single tag.
5. Then arm will carry that tag across to a holding point that would allow the predetermined length to be made.
6. Next a pair of "automatic fingers" will twist and tie a knot into the string. Fingers are a part of the machine that looks just like two fingers. This is a key function of the machine.
7. The arm will hold the tag in place until the knot is tied and cut.
8. The hang tags will collect on a holding shoot until the automatic counter has reached the set quantity that is to banded together. Normally this is 100 tags per bunch depending on the size of the hang tags.
9. Next the machine operator will remove that bunch of tag and place them into the box to be shipped back to the printing company. This process is done until all 150,000 hang tags have been strung and tied with a 1½" white elastic string.

Tag finishing machines can allow large quantities of hang tags to be strung with elastic string at a very fast speed. Now I hope that I have provided you with a clear understanding of what tag finishing service is and how this process is done with automatic tag finishing machines. The process of tag finishing service is also sometimes called tag stringing service but they are one in the same.