Stickers and labels have wide usage across industries and businesses. They possess a special place as an identity to exhibit brands of the product. Most of the companies prefer self-adhesive stickers as they have high quality and diverse application. These stickers benefit manufacturers as they are of various sizes, shapes and finish. Mostly these stickers fall short on quality as they cannot bear any type of climatic and storage conditions. Manufacturers must ensure that the customers get the best possible products in the self-adhesive sticker and labels range.
Contact and rubbing affect readability over time. While in your application, the label comes in contact with items that can scratch it and make it unreadable, a ribbon with a higher resin content will provide improved resistance. Print quality is often overlooked until it creates problems. The global market for label printing has grown steadily recently valuing at $36.98 billion in 2017. The market increases continuously at an annual growth rate of 4.1% in value terms to reach $45.22 billion by 2022.
Printed labels have a large market in Asia with annual growth rates of 8% in value terms from 2012 to 2017. North America and Western Europe are the next two largest markets for printed labels. These three regions make up 85% of global volume demand and 87% of the global value.
Abrasion resistance refers to the toughness of an ink or coating. It is the ability to prevent deterioration caused by friction. Ink Rub tester measures scuffing or rubbing resistance. Several tests are performed that includes dry rub in which the amount of transfer ink from one dry surface to another, wet rub involves the amount of transfer of ink from wetted surface to another, wet bleed includes transfer to a water saturated blotter, wet smear which is similar to wet bleed with the rub cycles, functional rub includes transfer tests using liquid other than water and hot abrasion.
To make inks and printing technology bear various conditions, Ink Abrasion Resistance Tester can be used. A noiseless application which ensures constant load distribution all over the test area. To determine the quality of the ink and other photosensitive coatings. It tests the bonding of ink with a printable surface. Rub resistance refers to the ability of printed material to bear scuffing, marking or smudging at the time of packaging, conversion, distribution etc.
Some of the features are powder coated Havel grey and blue combination with bright chrome zinc plating to resist corrosion. The material used in its body is mild steel. To purchase the instruments contact our expert team for advice.
