What are the common materials and characteristics of self-adhesive labels?

In recent years, with the development of market economy, expanding the application areas of the non-drying label, the more people began to pay attention to label printing quality and appearance of the level, not only greatly improve the level of the self-adhesive label printing and product quality, but also produced a variety of self-adhesive label design, effectively drive the non-drying label the formation and development of the industrial chain.
So, why are there so many self-adhesive label styles on the market? In fact, it is mainly because of the different materials and printing methods they choose. In general, the self-adhesive label materials on the market are mainly divided into paper and chemical films. Today I will share with you some common materials and features on the market.

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01. Coated paper
Coated paper is also known as coated paper. The paper is coated with a layer of white paint on the surface of the base paper and processed by a special process. At present, coated paper is mainly used for offset printing and gravure fine line printing, and is widely used in color printing, such as senior picture albums, calendars, books and periodicals, advertisements and so on. Of course, coated paper is also a better printing material for thermal transfer barcode labels.
The paper has the characteristics of smooth, high flatness, high whiteness, good ink absorption and ink performance, and the printed pattern is clear and beautiful. Inadequacies, coated paper after damp silty easy to fall off, not easy to preserve.

02, offset paper
Offset paper, also known as double-offset paper, is generally made of bleached coniferous wood chemical pulp and appropriate bamboo pulp, and is produced by using the principle of offset printing and ink printing balance. It is mainly used for monochromatic printing or multi-color book covers, text, posters, maps, propaganda paintings, color trademarks or various wrapping papers, etc.
The paper has the characteristics of good flexibility, strong water resistance, good stability, small scalability, tight and opaque texture, uniform ink absorption, good smoothness and so on. The drawback is that the printing effect of double-coated paper will be slightly worse than coated paper.

03, mirror coated paper
The mirror coated paper adopts super pressure polishing treatment, and the surface gloss of the paper is very high. It belongs to high gloss label paper for advanced multi-color product labels. It is generally used for information labels of drugs, cooking oil, wine, beverages, electrical appliances, cultural articles and other products.

04, thermal paper
Thermal paper, also known as thermal recording paper, is specially used for printing paper on thermal printers and thermal fax machines. It is mainly processed by colorless dyes, color developing agents, sensitizing agents, adhesives, etc., as thermal color coating. It has the characteristics of unique performance, rapid image production and convenience. Generally used for supermarket information labels, computer networking terminal printing, trademarks, POS labels, etc.

05. Heat transfer paper
The so-called heat transfer paper is a special paper specially made for ribbon printing. The principle is that the ink is transferred to the paper under the hot pressure of the printing head of the barcode printer. Usually, the heat transfer paper will be coated on the surface of the face paper, mainly to ensure that the heat transfer surface is smooth and non-reflective, and the ink absorption performance is good, especially for small bar codes with excellent printing effect.

06, PE film
Polyethylene film (Polyethylene film) is referred to as PE, which is a thermoplastic polymer obtained by polymerization of ethylene. It has the characteristics of water resistance, oil resistance and extrusion resistance, and can maintain softness and chemical stability at low temperature. Self-adhesive labels made of PE materials are mainly used in daily chemical products, such as shampoo, shower dew and other products. There are several colors on the market, such as bright white, sub-white, bright silver and transparent.

7, PP film
Polypropylene film referred to as PP, is a non-polar polymer material, the surface has bright white, sub-white, bright silver, transparent several colors, and has the characteristics of light weight, waterproof, moisture-proof, oil resistance, good crisp and so on. It is widely used in the fields of daily chemical products and cosmetics. For example, transparent PP material is commonly used in the market. Because of its high transparency, self-adhesive labels made with it are affixed to the transparent bottle body, which seems to have no label visual effect.

08, PET film
PET film is the English abbreviation of polyester film. It is a kind of polymer material. The self-adhesive label composite with PET film has good hardness, water resistance, temperature resistance, oil resistance, solvent resistance and other characteristics. There are common self-adhesive labels of these colors on the market, such as dumb silver, dumb white, bright silver, bright white and transparent.

09, PVC membrane
With transparent PVC film or PVC film, fabric, light ivory, inferior smooth milky white, bright, shiny silver, gold and silver and so on the many kinds of color, this kind of material made of the non-drying label water resistance, oil resistance, solvent resistance and other characteristics, is mainly used in chemical products, in addition, with shrinkage performance of PVC membrane can be used as cell shrinkage label materials.

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Post time: Sep-22-2022