Selection and application of self-adhesive label materials

Selection and application of self-adhesive label materials

Labels are no longer just an expression of basic information, but also a transmission of aesthetics, value, sensory and other experiences. In order to present the goods exquisitely, merchants often fully design and package the products. Labels can be designed with unique shapes, unique materials and unique functions; these designs become sufficient reasons to attract customers to choose to consume. As a printing company or end user, you may consider and weigh from multiple aspects

The Self-adhesive material has glue itself, which only pressed to stick. Due to its convenient and efficient use characteristic,adhesive labels after graphic printing and machine-cutting, have been widely applied to supermarkets, logistics，electronic products,chemical industries，medicines, foods, clothing and other business，Analyze from self-adhesive materials basic structure: it mainly made of fabric，self-adhesive and release liner, and each component has many categories, and based on different matching methods, it can produces different products to satisfy different purposes and intended uses

Facestock

Facestock is the surface material of the self adhesive products, which are used to receive graphic printing and transport information, and also adapt to various processing way such as printing, die cutting, waste discharge.The common surface materials are paper,film, cloth, etc. Using it depending on the print ways and final application. The high quality and excellent-stability products,should choose the materials with suitable printing surface and stable inner structure material.

The common surface materials of LABEL KING company are as follows

Self-adhesive label structure and analysis

Paper: Semi-gloss paper,High gloss paper,Wood-free paper,Fluorescent paper, Thermal paper,Kraft paper,Hologram paper…

Film: Transparent,Matte, Bright white,Matte white, Bright silver, Matte silver,Gold, Silver,Laser hologram…PP,PE,PET,PVC...

Foil: Aluminum foil paper, Aluminized paper, Transfer foil paper,Pure aluminum foil

Liner:Release film：PET,PP

Thick Liner：Yellow Kraft, White Kraft, Coate Paper, Brown Kraft,CCK...

Glassine Liner：White glassine, Blue glassine, Yellow glassine, SCK

Adhesive

Permanent :Acrylic , Hot melt  solvent base

Removable:Acrylic , Hot melt  solvent base

Special:Deep freeze glue, Tire glue,Grid glue,Interval glue,Heat sealing glue

Classified by characters:

Permanent: It is hard to tear the label without damage it after sticking on the surface a period of time.

Removable: It can be removed completely with no residue and damage the posted surface after stick a period of time. According to adhesion ability, it can be divided into four categories: low, common, medium and high viscosity

Self-adhesive Materials' choose

Self-adhesive materials’ usable ranges become increasingly wide, the product categories are more and more, and the uses of print machine are also diversification.The following suggestions supply the convenience for choosing materials

1. Glue's category

Glue-per-use features divided permanent and can be moved

2. The characters of removable glue usage

Can shift sexual glue refers to the complete self-adhesive labels from the adherend surface ripped, does not destroy the sticky, no residue and no ghosting. Divided into high, medium and low three categories according to viscosity, and stuck the surface characteristics to select the appropriate viscosity, surface smooth, soft, plastic and paper suitable for low-sticky glue the surface rough material suitable for high viscosity glue

3. Sticky material category glue

Adhesive materials maybe finally apply to the metal, PP, PE, ABS plastics, paper, glass, bamboo and wood and other sticky materials. The differences of adherent's categories can finally influence the sticky effect generally the bottom surface of plastic needs Select viscous strong glue

4. The adherend surface’s roughness and shape

The adherend with a rough surface generally need to choose high stickiness materials; and to the adherend with a certain angle, irregular shape and small-bore, it should choose materials with high stickiness or soft materials

5. Clean condition of the adherend surface

The adherend surface should be clean. If there is oil, dust and other smudges and humidity, it should be posted after cleaning

6. The influence of the plasticizer

DOP plasticizer in the paste after a certain period of time will reduce the viscosity of the glue

7. The selection of self-adhesive material's fabrics

Self-adhesive material’ s fabrics have paper, plastic and cloth and other materials. Its selections are based on the print methods and end-use purposes, Printing requirements of high-quality, stability, good products, you need to select the surface suitable printed fine and the internal structure of materials

8. The release liner' selection of self-adhesive material

Based on different materials, The release liner of self-adhesive materials can be divided into single drench film release paper, bottom sealing release paper, CCK release paper, glassine release paper and transparent release film; based on different release forces, can be divided into light peeling, medium peeling and heavy peeling. The selection of release liner is based on different processing ways and label methods.