Glossary
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Here you will find everything about labels, from A - Z.
- 2-layer labels
- 2-ply or 3-ply
- Abrasion resistance
- Abrasion test
- Acetate film
- Acetate rayon
- Acrylic adhesive
- Adhesion
- Adhesive accumulation
- Adhesive bond
- Adhesive film
- Adhesive leaks
- Adhesive residue
- Adhesive strength
- Adhesive-free zone
- Aluminium foil
- Analogue printing process
- Anchoring
- Apolar
- Application temperature
- Backing material
- Backing paper
- Barcode
- Bending stiffness
- Bleeding
- Blind embossing
- Blocking
- Booklet closure
- Booklet folders
- Booklet hinge
- Booklet labels
- Butterfly Effect
- Card hanging tags
- Cast-coated paper
- Chromo paper
- Clearcoat
- CMYK
- Coated paper
- Cohesion
- Cohesive failure
- Cold Flow
- Colour fastness
- Computer label
- Concertina
- Concertina fold
- Contact adhesive
- Corner detachment
- Corner radius
- Corona treatment
- Cutting plate
- Delamination
- Digital printing
- Dimensional stability
- Dispenser
- Dispersion
- Duplex
- Duplex labels
- Edge detachment
- Embossing
- Emulsion
- Endless material
- Environmental conditions
- Euro Scale
- Fan colours
- FDA
- Film Material
- Final adhesive bond
- Finat
- Flatness
- Fluorescence
- Folding labels
- Food contact
- Forgery proof
- Freezer adhesive
- Gauge pin
- Glassine
- Glueless zone
- Gravure
- Grip tab
- Heat setting
- HKS
- Holograms
- Hot stamping
- Hot-melt adhesive
- IMDS
- In-mould
- In-mould labelling
- Initial adhesion
- Internal punching
- ISEGA
- ISO 9000
- Label format
- Label gap
- Laminating adhesive
- Lamination
- Laser printing
- Leaflets
- Letterpress
- Lightfastness of printing inks
- Liner
- Luminescence colour
- Machine-coated paper
- Margin perforation
- Matrix / matrix stripping
- Matrix printing
- Matrix waste
- Metallised or aluminium-coated films and papers
- Microprinting
- Migration
- Movement
- Multi-ply labels
- Natural rubber adhesive
- Needle / matrix print(er)
- No-Label-Look
- Non-permanent adhesive
- Non-top coated
- Numbering
- Offset print
- Opacity
- Packaging
- Pantone
- Perforation
- Permanent adhesive
- Personalisation
- Piggyback
- Plasticiser
- Plucking
- Polyester (PET) film
- Polyethylene (PE) film
- Polymer
- Polypropylene (PP) film
- Polystyrene (PS) film
- Primer
- Print approval
- Printing ink
- Printing screen
- Proof
- Pulling threads
- Punching
- PVC (polyvinyl chloride) film
- RAL
- Release
- Release force
- Release layer
- Removability
- Removable adhesive
- Repellency
- Repositionable
- Resistance to solvents
- Restoring forces
- RFID
- Rubber adhesive
- Running direction
- Sandwich composite
- Scratch Test
- Scratch-off labels
- Security label
- Self-destructive
- Semi-permanent adhesive
- Shear strength
- Shelf life
- Silicone paper
- Silkscreen printing
- Sleeve core
- Sleeves
- Smudge resistance
- Solid colours
- Split
- Split back
- Surface tension
- Synthetic rubber adhesive
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