Packaging Localization & Artwork

Packaging Translation Services for Global Products

Translate product labels, packaging copy, ingredients, warnings, instructions, regulatory information, and artwork into 100+ languages with professional linguists, controlled terminology, multilingual formatting, and rigorous quality assurance.

From a single product label to large multilingual packaging portfolios spanning many SKUs, Stepes connects translation, language assets, artwork production, and review in one scalable workflow.

Packaging Translation Services
100+ LanguagesGlobal packaging translation for international markets
AI + Human WorkflowsTranslation models matched to content, risk, and quality requirements
Multilingual ArtworkTranslation, typesetting, graphic localization, and in-context QA
ISO-Certified QualityStructured quality management for professional translation

Your Packaging Carries More Than Marketing Copy

A package may look like one piece of content, but the language inside it can serve many different purposes. Product packaging brings together brand messaging, technical information, ingredients, instructions, safety content, consumer disclosures, and other information customers rely on to understand and use a product.

That makes packaging translation different from translating an ordinary document. A slogan may need creative adaptation. An ingredient needs precise terminology. A warning cannot lose its intended meaning. A measurement must remain correct. And every translation still has to fit inside the approved package design.

Stepes helps global companies translate these interconnected content types through packaging localization workflows designed around accuracy, consistency, artwork integrity, and market readiness.

Product & Brand Content

Product names, descriptions, claims, benefits, slogans, promotional language, and customer-facing messaging.

Ingredients & Product Information

Ingredients, materials, components, formulations, specifications, quantities, and structured product data.

Instructions & Directions

Preparation, use, dosage, assembly, operation, care, storage, handling, and maintenance information.

Safety & Warnings

Warnings, precautions, hazards, contraindications, safety statements, and other high-impact content.

Consumer & Regulatory Information

Required statements, manufacturer details, disclosures, certifications, country-of-origin information, recycling information, and market-specific content.

Connected Packaging Content

QR-linked information, digital product experiences, supporting instructions, websites, and other content that extends beyond the physical package.

Translate Every Part of the Package

Packaging translation often reaches far beyond the front panel. Stepes supports multilingual product content across primary packaging, secondary packaging, inserts, labels, graphics, and supporting materials so customers receive a consistent experience wherever product information appears.

Product Labels

Translate product names, descriptions, identifiers, specifications, benefits, quantities, and other essential information customers see on the product or container.

Ingredients & Composition

Maintain accurate multilingual terminology for ingredients, materials, formulations, components, and related product details.

Claims & Marketing Copy

Adapt product benefits, promotional statements, taglines, brand messaging, and other persuasive packaging content for local audiences while protecting brand intent.

Warnings & Safety Information

Translate warnings, precautions, handling instructions, hazards, storage requirements, and safety-critical information with workflows appropriate to the content risk.

Instructions & Directions

Localize usage, preparation, dosage, assembly, care, maintenance, installation, and operating instructions so customers can use products correctly.

Regulatory & Legal Content

Translate approved declarations, disclosures, manufacturer information, certifications, market-specific statements, and other controlled product content.

Inserts & Supporting Materials

Support package inserts, leaflets, instruction cards, quick-start guides, warranty information, product literature, and other materials supplied with the product.

Artwork & Graphics

Translate text inside illustrations, icons, diagrams, callouts, side panels, tables, labels, and graphical elements while preserving the surrounding design.

Connected Product Content

One Product. Many Packaging Components. Every Market.

A single product may carry the same information across a carton, bottle, container, pouch, sleeve, insert, instruction card, retail display, and online product page. Multiply that by product variants, package sizes, languages, and destination markets, and packaging localization quickly becomes a connected content operation.

Stepes helps companies manage packaging language as a reusable product asset rather than translating every component in isolation.

Outer Cartons

Brand messaging, product information, instructions, warnings, specifications, and market-specific content.

Labels & Containers

High-density product information that must remain accurate and readable within limited space.

Pouches, Sleeves & Sachets

Compact packaging formats where text expansion and multilingual layout require careful production.

Inserts & Instruction Cards

Supporting information that expands on safe use, preparation, assembly, dosage, care, or product operation.

Retail & Display Packaging

Customer-facing packaging, shelf displays, promotional elements, and other materials designed for the point of sale.

Digital & QR-Connected Content

Multilingual information that continues the packaging experience through product pages, instructions, support content, or digital resources.

Shared terminology, translation memory, approved product language, and quality controls help keep the information behind these components aligned.

Product Content
Protect the Artwork, Not Just the Words
Artwork Localization

Protect the Artwork, Not Just the Words

A packaging translation is not finished when the target text is linguistically complete. It has to work inside the actual artwork.

Translated copy can become longer or shorter. Fonts may not support the target script. Line breaks can change. Text may overflow a panel. Arabic and other right-to-left languages can require major layout adaptation. Product names, measurements, symbols, graphics, and non-translatable elements must remain protected throughout production.

Stepes combines professional packaging translation with multilingual desktop publishing to help move content from source artwork to professionally localized packaging.

Prepare the Source

Review editable artwork, linked assets, fonts, target languages, existing translations, terminology, and production requirements.

Translate the Content

Extract or prepare translatable text while protecting artwork structure, identifiers, numbers, product references, and non-translatable elements.

Localize the Layout

Reintegrate translated content and adapt text frames, typography, spacing, graphics, alignment, and language direction for each target language.

Review in Context

Check the translation inside the actual package layout to identify problems that may not be visible in a bilingual translation file.

Deliver Production-Ready Assets

Provide the agreed editable artwork, packaged design files, review PDFs, print-ready outputs, or other final deliverables.

From Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to PDFs and other design formats, Stepes helps preserve both the language and the visual integrity of global packaging.

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Translation Has to Fit the Package

Packaging gives language a hard physical boundary. A translation that is perfectly accurate in a text editor may no longer work when placed inside a narrow side panel, compact label, nutrition table, warning box, or multilingual carton. Different languages also behave differently in layout.

Stepes combines language expertise with multilingual production to address the practical constraints of packaging design.

Text Expansion

Translations may require more space than the English source. Layouts can be adjusted through text reflow, spacing, typography, and other production techniques without casually removing meaning just to make the copy fit.

Multilingual Typography

Target-language fonts must support the correct characters, accents, glyphs, punctuation, and script behavior while remaining consistent with the packaging design.

Complex Scripts

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indic, Southeast Asian, Cyrillic, and other writing systems have language-specific requirements for fonts, spacing, line breaking, punctuation, and visual balance.

Right-to-Left Packaging

Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, and other RTL languages may require bidirectional text handling, changed alignment, repositioned graphics, mirrored structures, and target-language visual QA.

Constrained Panels

Labels, tables, callouts, small containers, and compact package panels require careful management of line breaks, text density, hierarchy, and readability.

In-Context Validation

Final packaging is reviewed in its intended layout so translation, typography, and visual presentation can be evaluated together.

Packaging Expertise Across Product Categories

Different products place different demands on packaging translation. Stepes combines multilingual production with subject-qualified language expertise to support packaging across consumer, technical, and regulated industries.

Food & Beverage

Translate product names, ingredients, allergen statements, nutrition information, preparation instructions, storage conditions, claims, warnings, quantities, and multilingual packaging artwork.

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Beauty & Personal Care

Localize product benefits, ingredients, usage directions, precautions, shades, variants, claims, brand language, labels, cartons, and small-format packaging.

Pharmaceuticals

Support multilingual product labels, cartons, package inserts, medication information, dosage content, warnings, safety statements, and pharmaceutical artwork.

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Medical Devices

Translate device labels, packaging, safety information, symbols, instructions, product identification, and supporting regulated content.

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Consumer Products

Localize packaging for electronics, household goods, apparel, lifestyle products, toys, appliances, health and wellness products, and other retail categories.

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Industrial & Technical Products

Translate technical labels, specifications, handling instructions, product warnings, safety information, installation content, and industrial packaging.

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Food & Beverage Packaging Where Every Detail Matters

Food and beverage packaging combines language, structured product data, ingredients, quantities, claims, consumer information, and design in a limited amount of space.

Stepes helps food and beverage companies translate approved packaging content accurately and consistently while maintaining terminology across product families and markets.

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Food Packaging Content We Translate

  • Product and common names
  • Ingredient declarations
  • Allergen statements
  • Nutrition information
  • Serving information
  • Net quantity, weight, and volume
  • Preparation and cooking instructions
  • Storage conditions
  • Date and shelf-life information
  • Warnings and consumer notices
  • Product claims
  • Certifications
  • Country-of-origin information
  • Package descriptions
  • Promotional packaging copy
  • Multilingual artwork

Packaging Requirements Are Market-Specific

Product information requirements can differ by category, jurisdiction, destination market, and intended use. Language requirements, ingredients, allergens, nutrition information, claims, presentation, and consumer disclosures may also vary.

Stepes supports regulatory implementation by translating customer-approved product and regulatory content according to the terminology, source information, and market requirements defined for the project. Regulatory, legal, and product-compliance determinations remain with the appropriate customer or regulatory specialists.

Packaging Localization Controls

Approved Source Translation

Preserve the intended meaning of approved product, safety, and regulatory information.

Market-Specific Language

Use the appropriate target language, regional variant, locale conventions, and approved terminology for each market.

Controlled Terminology

Apply approved product, ingredient, allergen, quality, and brand language consistently.

Multilingual Artwork

Integrate translated information into package layouts while maintaining hierarchy, readability, and design intent.

Revision Management

Reuse approved content as formulations, claims, packaging, or product information change.

Linguistic QA

Check accuracy, completeness, terminology, numbers, units, formatting, and final presentation.

Regulated Packaging

High-Stakes Packaging Requires Specialized Translation

Pharmaceutical and medical device packaging can communicate information that directly affects product identification, use, dosage, handling, and safety.

Stepes supports regulated packaging translation with subject-qualified linguistic resources, controlled terminology, structured review, multilingual production, and quality workflows aligned to the project requirements.

Pharmaceutical Packaging

  • Product labels
  • Cartons
  • Package inserts
  • Medication guides
  • Prescribing information
  • Dosage and administration content
  • Contraindications and precautions
  • Safety statements
  • Storage information
  • Pharmaceutical artwork

Medical Device Packaging

  • Device labels
  • Product identification
  • Packaging and cartons
  • Warnings and precautions
  • Symbols and callouts
  • Instructions for use
  • Handling and storage information
  • Supporting product materials
  • Multilingual artwork

Sensitive or regulated packaging content can be routed through specialist translation, independent revision, subject-matter review, client approval, and in-context validation according to the agreed workflow.

Consistency at Scale

One Packaging Vocabulary Across Every Product and Market

Global packaging portfolios repeat far more language than they first appear to. A product family may reuse the same names, ingredients, warnings, claims, directions, materials, storage statements, manufacturer details, technical terms, and approved legal language across dozens or hundreds of SKUs.

Stepes helps turn this repeated language into reusable multilingual knowledge.

Terminology Management

Centralize approved product names, ingredient terminology, claims, warnings, technical language, brand terms, and preferred translations so linguists and reviewers work from the same multilingual vocabulary.

Translation Memory

Reuse previously translated and approved packaging content instead of retranslating identical or similar language from the beginning each time.

Product-Family Consistency

Carry validated terminology and translations across package sizes, flavors, formulations, models, variants, and related products.

Market Variants

Maintain the right regional terminology and approved differences when multiple markets use the same language.

Approved Content Reuse

Preserve validated language across cartons, labels, inserts, product pages, instructions, and other connected product materials.

Continuous Improvement

Feed approved corrections and reviewer decisions back into terminology and translation memory so future packaging benefits from previous work.

The result is greater multilingual consistency across products, languages, and release cycles—with less repetitive translation effort.

Version Reuse

Update the Change, Not the Entire Package

Packaging rarely stays static. A formula changes. An ingredient is added. A warning is revised. A new product claim is approved. A package size changes. Artwork is refreshed. A new SKU launches. A product enters another market.

When only part of the source changes, the multilingual workflow should be able to recognize that.

Stepes uses translation memory, terminology, content comparison, and version-aware workflows to help identify existing approved language and focus new translation and review on the content that actually changed.

Identify New and Modified Content

Separate new or revised source language from previously translated material.

Reuse Approved Translations

Apply validated translations where the underlying source remains unchanged and reuse is appropriate.

Focus Review on Change

Direct linguistic attention toward revised ingredients, claims, instructions, warnings, specifications, or other affected content.

Update the Artwork

Apply approved language to the new packaging revision while maintaining the required layout and production specifications.

Validate the New Version

Check the localized revision against the updated source and approved multilingual content.

Preserve the Knowledge

Update terminology and translation memory so the latest approved language is ready for the next release.

This approach can reduce repetitive work while improving consistency across recurring packaging updates.

End-to-End Workflow

From Master Artwork to Market-Ready Packaging

Stepes coordinates the linguistic and production stages required to move packaging from approved source content to multilingual deliverables.

01

Analyze

Review source artwork, file types, target languages, product category, existing translations, terminology, linked assets, formatting requirements, and final deliverables.

02

Prepare

Organize translatable content while protecting product identifiers, numbers, artwork elements, variables, approved names, and non-translatable information.

03

Translate

Apply professional linguists, translation memory, terminology, AI-enabled technology, and subject-matter expertise according to the content and project requirements.

04

Review

Verify meaning, terminology, completeness, product information, numbers, claims, warnings, and other critical language through the defined review workflow.

05

Reintegrate

Return translated content to Illustrator, InDesign, or other source artwork and adapt typography, text frames, graphics, spacing, alignment, and language direction.

06

Validate

Perform the required linguistic, visual, numerical, terminology, and in-context QA against the source and approved translation.

07

Deliver & Maintain

Provide the agreed editable files, packaged assets, review copies, print-ready PDFs, or other outputs and retain approved language assets for future packaging updates.

One coordinated workflow helps reduce handoffs between translation, artwork, review, and multilingual production.

Quality Matched to Packaging Risk

Not every sentence on a package carries the same consequences. Stepes helps organizations configure AI, professional translation, specialist review, and quality controls according to the purpose, audience, visibility, and risk of the content.

Brand & Promotional Copy

Customer-facing slogans, benefits, claims, and promotional messaging may require localization or transcreation to preserve intent while sounding natural in the target market.

Brand voice · fluency · persuasion · cultural relevance

General Product Information

Descriptions, materials, features, specifications, and other product content require clear translation and consistent terminology across packaging and channels.

Accuracy · consistency · terminology · scalability

Technical Instructions

Assembly, installation, preparation, care, handling, and operating information benefit from subject-qualified translators and structured QA.

Technical accuracy · clarity · usability · numbers and units

Safety & Regulated Content

Warnings, precautions, dosage information, safety statements, and other high-impact content can require specialist translation, additional review, and controlled approval.

Meaning · completeness · terminology · traceability · risk control

Final Packaging Artwork

All content must ultimately work in its finished visual environment.

Text integrity · layout · readability · fonts · graphics · in-context verification

AI and workflow automation can accelerate appropriate stages such as file preparation, terminology application, repeated-content processing, content comparison, routing, and quality checks. Professional human expertise remains central wherever meaning, safety, regulatory sensitivity, brand judgment, or complex artwork decisions require it.

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Packaging QA Before Production

Packaging quality assurance needs to look beyond grammar. Stepes can combine automated checks, professional linguistic review, subject-matter validation, multilingual production review, and in-context QA according to the project scope.

Linguistic Quality

Accuracy

Confirm that the translation communicates the intended source meaning.

Completeness

Identify missing, untranslated, added, duplicated, or hidden content.

Terminology

Check product names, ingredients, materials, warnings, technical terminology, and other approved language.

Consistency

Maintain consistent wording across panels, package components, products, and languages.

Language Quality

Review grammar, spelling, punctuation, fluency, style, and locale conventions.

Product Data Quality

Numbers

Check quantities, dimensions, percentages, dates, product references, and other numerical content.

Units & Measurements

Verify translated content has not introduced missing, changed, or inconsistent measurements.

Product Names & Identifiers

Protect approved names, model numbers, SKUs, trademarks, codes, and other identifiers.

Ingredients & Components

Check high-density terminology against approved language resources and the source.

Warnings & Instructions

Review critical information for completeness, accuracy, and consistency.

Artwork Quality

Text Overflow & Truncation

Identify copy that no longer fits its intended frame or panel.

Fonts & Characters

Check font compatibility, missing glyphs, accents, special characters, and script rendering.

Line Breaks & Placement

Review inappropriate wrapping, disconnected phrases, misplaced content, and visual hierarchy.

Graphics

Confirm translated labels, diagrams, callouts, and text embedded in images are present and correctly positioned.

RTL & Complex Scripts

Verify writing direction, alignment, typography, graphic placement, and mixed-language presentation.

Cross-Market Quality

Correct Language & Locale

Confirm the intended language and regional variant are used for the destination market.

Approved Terminology

Apply the right market-specific product, brand, technical, and regulatory terminology.

Artwork Version

Confirm the localized package matches the intended source revision and market deliverable.

Product Information

Check that the correct product content and identifiers are associated with the intended market.

Quality controls can be configured according to product category, language, market, content type, and project risk rather than forcing every packaging project into one universal review model.

File Engineering

Work Directly With Your Packaging Artwork

Native source files allow multilingual packaging to be translated and produced with greater control over text, layers, typography, graphics, and future revisions.

Stepes supports common design, publishing, document, and graphics formats used in packaging workflows.

For best results

Whenever possible, provide editable native artwork together with linked images, fonts, and a reference PDF. Complete source packages improve editability, multilingual production, version management, and final visual QA.

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Adobe Illustrator

AI · EPS · SVG

Localize editable product labels, packaging graphics, callouts, diagrams, icons, and artwork while preserving surrounding visual elements.

Adobe InDesign

INDD · IDML · INX · INDB · ICML

Translate cartons, inserts, labels, brochures, instruction materials, and other designed product content with multilingual typesetting and visual QA.

Adobe Photoshop

PSD

Localize layered graphics and image-based packaging assets when editable content is available.

PDF

PDF

Translate text-based or supplied packaging PDFs and determine the most appropriate workflow for translation, reconstruction, review, or final production.

Microsoft Office

DOCX · XLSX · PPTX

Support copy decks, label tables, product data, review files, regulatory text, and other source materials used alongside packaging artwork.

Structured & Additional Formats

XML · DATA EXPORTS · TEMPLATES

Evaluate structured content, data exports, customer-specific templates, and other files used to generate or manage packaging content.

Scale Packaging Translation Across Products and Markets

Packaging translation may begin with one label and grow into an ongoing multilingual program involving product families, regional variants, artwork revisions, multiple departments, and frequent launches.

Stepes helps enterprises scale without rebuilding the localization process for every project.

One product or a global portfolio

Whether you are launching one product into a new market or managing recurring packaging localization across a global portfolio, Stepes provides the language technology and professional expertise to support continued growth.

Multiple SKUs

Maintain terminology and approved language across flavors, sizes, models, formulations, configurations, and product families.

Multiple Languages

Coordinate packaging localization across 100+ languages and regional variants through shared processes and language assets.

Multiple Markets

Manage market-specific language, terminology, content variants, review requirements, and deliverables.

Multiple Revisions

Leverage approved translations and focus effort on new and changed content as packaging evolves.

Centralized Language Assets

Use shared terminology, translation memory, reference content, and quality rules to improve consistency across the portfolio.

Flexible Workflows

Apply different combinations of AI, professional translation, specialist review, client approval, and in-context QA according to content risk.

Connected Content

Carry approved language across packaging, product information, e-commerce, instructions, marketing, support, and other product touchpoints.

Quality Standards You Can Build On

Stepes supports multilingual packaging through established quality systems for professional, enterprise, and regulated translation workflows.

ISO 17100

Translation Services

Structured requirements for professional translation processes, qualified linguistic resources, and defined translation workflows.

ISO 9001

Quality Management

Quality-management practices designed to support consistent processes, customer requirements, corrective action, and continuous improvement.

ISO 13485

Medical Device Quality Management

Quality processes relevant to multilingual medical device and regulated life sciences content.

The standards, review steps, and quality controls appropriate to a packaging project depend on its product category, content, market, intended use, and customer requirements.

Why Global Brands Choose Stepes for Packaging Translation

Packaging sits at the intersection of product information, brand communication, technical content, artwork, and customer experience. Stepes brings the language and production capabilities behind these elements into one multilingual workflow.

Packaging + Language Expertise

Translate labels, cartons, inserts, warnings, ingredients, instructions, claims, specifications, and product content across diverse industries.

Artwork-Ready Workflows

Move beyond translated text with multilingual typesetting, graphic localization, in-context review, and final artwork QA.

Specialized Linguists

Match professional translators and reviewers to the target language, subject matter, product category, and content requirements.

Terminology at Scale

Protect approved product, brand, ingredient, technical, and regulated terminology across SKUs and markets.

Translation Memory & Content Reuse

Build on previously approved packaging translations to improve consistency and reduce repetitive work across revisions.

Flexible AI + Human Translation

Use AI and automation where they improve efficiency while applying professional human judgment where accuracy, safety, brand voice, or complexity demands it.

Risk-Based Quality

Configure review and QA around what the content does and what the consequences of an error could be.

100+ Languages

Support global packaging programs across major European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American languages and regional variants.

Packaging Translation Services FAQ

Practical answers about product label translation, packaging artwork, multilingual DTP, language reuse, quality assurance, and global packaging workflows.

Packaging translation is the translation and localization of language that appears on product labels, cartons, containers, pouches, sleeves, inserts, instruction cards, retail packaging, and related artwork.

Professional packaging localization can include linguistic translation, terminology management, translation memory, multilingual typesetting, graphic localization, right-to-left adaptation, in-context review, artwork QA, and delivery of localized design files.

The goal is not simply to translate the words. It is to make the multilingual content work accurately and effectively in the package customers will actually see and use.

Stepes translates product names and descriptions, labels, ingredients, materials, specifications, claims, warnings, safety information, usage instructions, preparation directions, storage information, quantities, measurements, manufacturer information, regulatory statements, package inserts, promotional copy, sustainability information, graphic callouts, and other multilingual packaging content. We support both individual packaging projects and ongoing localization programs across multiple products, languages, revisions, and markets.

Yes. Stepes provides product label translation services for consumer products, food and beverage, beauty and personal care, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, industrial products, electronics, household goods, and other categories. Label translation can include professional translation, terminology management, multilingual formatting, artwork localization, in-context review, and quality assurance according to the project requirements.

Yes. Stepes supports multilingual packaging workflows in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and other common design and publishing formats. When editable source files are available, translated text can be reintegrated into the artwork and the target layout adjusted for text expansion, typography, fonts, line breaks, writing direction, and other language-specific requirements.

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Translated text may take more or less space than the source language. Stepes multilingual production specialists can adapt text frames, line breaks, typography, spacing, and layout to accommodate the target language while preserving readability and design intent. If substantive copy changes or shortening would affect meaning, brand language, approved claims, or regulated content, those changes should follow the appropriate linguistic and customer approval process rather than being made only to fit the artwork.

Yes. Stepes translates product names, ingredients, allergen statements, nutrition information, serving information, weights and volumes, preparation instructions, storage conditions, warnings, claims, package descriptions, promotional copy, and multilingual food packaging artwork.

Because food labeling requirements differ by product and market, Stepes translates approved source information according to the market requirements and terminology defined for the project. Legal and regulatory determinations remain with the appropriate customer specialists.

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Yes. Stepes supports translation of pharmaceutical labels, cartons, package inserts, medication information, dosage and administration content, warnings, safety statements, storage information, and related packaging artwork.

Workflows can include specialist linguists, controlled terminology, independent revision, subject-matter review, client approval, and multilingual artwork QA according to project requirements.

Explore Pharmaceutical Translation Services

Yes. Stepes translates medical device labels, cartons, product identification, warnings, symbols, handling information, storage instructions, IFUs, and supporting product content. Our medical device translation workflows can combine qualified linguistic resources, terminology control, multilingual DTP, structured quality review, and ISO-aligned quality processes.

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Stepes uses approved terminology, translation memory, reference content, style guidance, and quality controls to maintain consistent language across related products. Previously approved language can be reused across different package sizes, flavors, models, formulations, or product variants where the source content and translation remain applicable.

Yes. Stepes can analyze revised content, leverage previously approved translations, identify new or changed language, and focus translation and review on affected content. This is particularly useful for new packaging revisions, formulation changes, updated warnings, new claims, artwork refreshes, additional package sizes, and related SKU launches.

Packaging QA can include linguistic accuracy, completeness, terminology, grammar, spelling, numbers, measurements, units, product names, ingredients, warnings, fonts, special characters, text overflow, line breaks, graphics, RTL presentation, and source-to-target artwork comparison. The exact QA process is configured according to the product, content type, languages, intended use, and agreed project scope.

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Yes. Stepes supports Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, and other right-to-left languages. RTL packaging production may require more than changing text direction. Depending on the artwork, the layout may also require mirrored structures, changed alignment, repositioned graphics, script-compatible fonts, bidirectional text handling, and final visual QA.

Stepes supports common packaging and design formats including Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, PDF, SVG, EPS, Microsoft Word, Excel, and other design, publishing, structured-content, and document formats. Editable native files are recommended whenever available because they generally provide greater control over text extraction, layout adaptation, typography, graphics, and final production.

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Stepes uses AI and automation as part of flexible translation workflows where they can improve speed, reuse, consistency, or process efficiency. The appropriate workflow depends on the content. High-volume or repetitive product language may benefit from AI-assisted processes, translation memory, terminology automation, and automated QA. Brand-sensitive, technical, safety-related, medical, or regulated content can receive professional human translation and additional specialist validation. The objective is not to apply one translation method to every packaging project, but to match technology and human expertise to the content and its risk.

Stepes supports packaging translation in more than 100 languages, including major European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American languages as well as many regional language variants. Multilingual production is available for Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and other right-to-left scripts, Indic languages, Southeast Asian languages, and other complex writing systems.

Yes. Stepes supports both individual packaging projects and recurring enterprise programs involving multiple SKUs, languages, markets, package types, and release cycles. Shared terminology, translation memories, workflow rules, review processes, multilingual artwork expertise, and centralized language assets allow approved packaging language to scale across an expanding product portfolio.

Ready to Take Your Packaging Global?

Whether you are translating one product label or managing multilingual packaging across an entire portfolio, Stepes helps connect professional translation, terminology control, content reuse, multilingual artwork, and quality assurance in one scalable workflow.

Bring us your labels, cartons, package inserts, design files, existing translations, or next product launch. We’ll help turn approved product content into packaging that is ready for customers around the world.