Labelling, permanent and temporary marking
Garment labelling and marking systems identify and track textile items through dry cleaning, laundry and uniform-rental workflows, from permanent heat-seal labels to temporary tags that come off at the counter.
Carbonless dry cleaning invoices
Continuous computer tags
Hanger tags
Roll lot dry cleaning tags
Garment instruction tags
Printer ink ribbons
Shirt piece tags
Strip book dry cleaning tags
Thermal receipt paper rolls
Wet Strength Blank Tag Rolls for Dry Cleaning and Laundry
Work out what a lost garment costs you
Multiply it by the number you lose in a year. That figure usually settles the marking question quickly.
Thermopatch is the global reference for textile labelling, and Unicorp distributes the range in South Africa alongside Cleaner's Supply marking products.
Why marking pays
A garment that cannot be identified is a garment that will be argued about, and eventually replaced at your cost. In uniform rental, healthcare and hotel valet the number of items in circulation makes that arithmetic brutal. Marking systems are among the cheapest equipment in a laundry and among the fastest to pay for themselves.
Permanent or temporary
Permanent heat-seal labels are for items you own and will keep in service for years: rental uniforms, hospital linen, hotel stock. Temporary marking is for customer-owned garments that must be identified through the cleaning cycle and handed back unmarked. Most operations need both, and the mistake is using one where the other belongs.
Printing on demand
The HIQ EOS printers let you produce labels and tape as you need them rather than holding pre-printed stock, which matters when your customer list changes more often than your equipment does.
Four method classes
- Permanent heat-seal labels
- Bonded to the garment and intended to outlast it. Uniform rental, healthcare and anywhere an item must stay identified for years.
- Heat-seal presses
- The HS-4/C and HS-21/SQR presses that apply them, sized for counter or production use.
- Temporary marking
- The Y-151 and the tag ranges that mark an item for one cycle and are removed at the counter.
- Printers and tape
- HIQ EOS label printers, HIQ Hytex marking tape and Combitex labelling tape for printing on demand.
- Tags
- Wet-strength blank rolls, Cleartype piece tags and Fiberolls code tags.
The manufacturers behind this range
Answers before you enquire
- Heat-seal or sewn labels?
- Heat-seal is faster to apply, needs no sewing skill and survives industrial washing. Sewn is still preferred on some garment types and where the customer specifies it.
- Do you supply RFID?
- RFID garment tracking is available and increasingly common in uniform rental and healthcare. Talk to us about whether your volume justifies it.
Work out what a lost garment costs you
Multiply it by the number you lose in a year. That figure usually settles the marking question quickly.






























