Private Label AC Artwork: What Gets Printed on Your Own Branded Box

Not ours. The brand on this artwork belongs to a customer who placed a private-label order, and that is precisely why it is worth showing: it is what "private label" actually delivers. Anybody can print a logo on a carton. The work sits in the four things underneath — a model code allocated to your brand, a nameplate that carries your brand as an original print rather than a sticker over the factory one, a market energy label issued under your brand, and barcodes that tie each half of a split system back to the half it was packed with. All four are visible in the file above.

We have deliberately kept that customer's brand name out of the text on this page. Their model code, GSPFCU-32CFN8, is quoted exactly as printed, because the model code is what your broker reads, what your warehouse scans and what your technician looks up — a page about label data that hid the label data would be worth nothing to you.

Ask to see the artwork before you pay a deposit. A supplier who cannot produce a completed artwork file for a model they claim to have already made has not, in fact, made it for a brand.

The outdoor carton is the heavy one, and it carries the specification that ends arguments: the refrigerant. R32 has a global warming potential of 675, roughly a third of R410A, which makes it the least controversial choice available in a market where refrigerant regulation is tightening. It is also a decision that shapes your service business: R32 runs at higher pressure than R410A and is mildly flammable (A2L), so a technician topping up a system needs the matching equipment and training. Stocking R32 only means one set of tools, one spare-parts logic and one safety briefing for your field team.

The weight class tells the logistics story. The outdoor carton carries the compressor, the condenser coil and the refrigerant charge, so it dominates both your freight bill and your manual-handling risk. Plan two people, or a trolley — not one porter carrying the carton on his shoulder across a market.

"Reliable & Durable" and "High Cooling Performance" are manufacturer descriptors, not test results. If your customer wants proof, the document that answers them is the rating label, not the carton graphic.

This is the label that does the most commercial work, and the one buyers most often misread. The Ghana energy efficiency label is issued under the Energy Commission of Ghana framework, which requires air conditioners offered for sale in Ghana to carry an efficiency label showing the model, cooling capacity, efficiency ratio and annual energy consumption. A shipment that arrives without it has a selling problem, not just a compliance one.

What an EER of 3.21 means. EER is cooling output divided by electrical input in the same units — 8.80 kW of cooling for 2.75 kW of power is 3.2, and the label states the measured value as 3.21. In plain terms, every 1 kW of electricity you pay for returns about 3.2 kW of cooling. It is the honest, unglamorous figure for this class of machine.

The brand field is the private-label part. On this artwork the brand field reads as the customer's own brand, not the factory's — that is the whole difference between importing a white-label unit and importing your own line. A private-label run normally means the label is issued under your brand, which makes it a pre-shipment step: raise it with your supplier when you confirm the artwork, not after the container lands.

Read the grade in context. An A grade means the model met the efficiency band the Energy Commission applied when it was registered. It is a market-access statement, not a claim that this is the most efficient air conditioner available, and we would not present it as one.

Verify it yourself: the EER line, the kWh/year line and the model code are all legible on the artwork above. Ask for the registered label for your own brand before you ship.

This is the question that decides whether a private-label project is real. Some lines on the box follow the brand; others follow the product, and no amount of brand money changes them.

Notice which column the expensive mistakes live in. Buyers spend weeks negotiating the brand block, then lose the container on the capacity declaration or the energy label brand field — the two lines they never asked about.

This page shows a customer-brand private-label artwork. If you would rather not register a brand and wait for artwork approval, the equivalent production file for our own white-label line — a 12,000 BTU wall split — is published to the same level of detail.