Pressure Sensitive Labels

I had a question from a customer the other day that made me stop and think.  So I thought I’d share it with you and see if it helps you out.

The question was “what is a pressure-sensitive label?”

Now that seems like a pretty basic question to me, but then again, I have to remember that I work with labels all day long.  And something that is second nature to me isn’t necessarily common knowledge to everyone.  That’s kind of like asking me how to tie a lasso.  That’s second nature for a cowboy, but it’s foreign to me!

So I pulled out my books and looked up the technical definition of “Pressure-Sensitive” and found this:

Pressure Sensitive Label:

A face material paired with a pressure sensitive adhesive. Every label produced and stocked by Compulabel is pressure sensitive.

Pressure-sensitive Paper:
Material with an adhesive coating, protected by a backing sheet until used.

To simplify, this means that anything we make is considered to be pressure sensitive.  This includes all of our laser and inkjet sheeted labels like item # 312107.  It also includes our pinfeed labels like item # 110654, and even our Thermal labels like #620752 are pressure sensitive too.

So the next time someone asks you “what is a pressure-sensitive label?” you can tell them exactly what it is, and where to find it – at www.tlcIT.com!

Let me know if you have any questions like this one.  I’ll figure out a way to explain it!

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