What are Labels?

Labels are small pieces of packaging material, often adhesive-backed, used for identification, marking, or providing information about a product, object, or container. They come in various shapes, sizes, and materials, depending on their intended use. Labels serve several purposes, including branding, organizing, providing instructions, promoting products or events, and conveying important details to consumers or users.

Our labels are available in two types: sheet and thermal.

Sheet Labels

Sheet Labels are pre-cut adhesive labels that come in the form of individual labels or multiple labels arranged on standard-sized sheets. These labels are designed for printing using standard office printers,

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While sheet labels (the kind you use with a conventional laser printer) are a popular option, most workers in industrial settings will be using thermal labels. Thermal labels are available in two types, direct thermal and thermal transfer, and are printed with thermal printers, which heat up either a ribbon of hot melt ink or the label itself to print words and images.

In this article, we will go over the different properties of these two types of labels and when to use them.

Direct Thermal Labels

Direct thermal printers do not contain a ribbon of hot melt ink. Instead, when the chemically treated label paper passes in front of

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SIGHT

Barcodes, product contents and expiration dates are very often printed on thermal labels. These labels are very convenient for these purposes, and can be carried out using one of the following two methods:

• Direct Thermal
• Thermal Transfer