Knowledge of sticker/label printing

Knowledge of sticker/label printing

The advantages of transparent sticker printing include: good moisture resistance, excellent water resistance, good oil resistance, can meet high-speed automatic labeling speed, and very beautiful visual effects. The stickers mentioned in the Chinese printing market mainly refer to the printed matter used to identify the relevant instructions of their products, and most of them are paper labels with sticker on the back, and some are printed without glue, which can also be used as stickers.
Transparent labels, which are often referred to as transparent stickers, are currently widely used in nowadays, mainly for packaging or products in the food industry, packaging industry, software industry, mechanical equipment and other industries. The advantages of transparent sticker printing include: good moisture resistance, excellent water resistance, good oil resistance, high-speed automatic labeling speed, and very beautiful visual effects.
The raw materials of transparent sticker labels are mainly divided into two types. One is plastic transparent materials, which are cheap sticker printing and suitable for products with low requirements; the other is transparent sticker labels made of PVC. The see-through rate is higher than that of plastic transparent sticker labels, and it is also stronger, and can resist stretching and tearing better.
In sticker printing, transparent sticker can also be divided into two types: 1. Ordinary offset printing. This printing method can only print relatively simple text and vector pictures, and the printing effect of relatively delicate bitmap pictures is not very good. It takes a long time to dry after the printing is completed, and finally a layer of plastic film must be covered on it to prevent the ink from rubbing off. The advantage of this printing method is low price, but the disadvantage is that the printing period is longer. 2. UV ink gravure printing, this printing method not only has good printing effect, but also the printing period is relatively short.
According to the shape of the transparent label, it can be roughly divided into two categories: 1. Right-angled, this is relatively simple, and it will be extremely stretched after printing, and the cost will not increase; 2. Special-shaped, this kind of transparent label In the old die-cutting machine, you have to make a knife plate, so the printing cost will increase accordingly.
The labels in the printing market mainly refer to the printed matter used to identify the relevant instructions of their own products, and most of them are paper labels with sticker on the back, but there are also some labels that are printed without glue, which can also be called labels. For example, most beer labels are printed without glue. The manufacturer affixes them by brushing the label glue. This is also called a label. Therefore, the label does not have to be glued. Commonly known as sticker labels, transparent sticker labels are transparent labels or transparent sticker labels.