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In daily life, stickers and labels can be seen everywhere. They look similar and most of them come with adhesive backing, making them easily confused by the public. However, in the fields of printing and packaging, industrial production, and commercial applications, stickers and labels are two products with completely different positioning, functions, and process standards.
Most people think that all stickable paper can be called "stickers", and labels are just another name for stickers.In fact, there are essential differences between stickers and labels:
Stickers focus on decorative properties and are cultural and creative products and daily consumer goods;
Labels focus on information carrying and functional attributes, and are packaging accessories and industrial accessories.
There are significant differences between the two in terms of design logic, production standards, purpose of use, and durability.This article will briefly and systematically analyze the core concepts and differences between stickers and labels.
A sticker is a paper or film material with an adhesive on it.
Various patterns or cartoon images are printed on the surface material, which is very popular among children and teenagers.
As a popular daily cultural and creative product, it does not have strict industry standards and mandatory information requirements.
Different from labels, it hardly undertakes functions such as information description, traceability, identification, and standard annotation.
Its main function is to embellish items, beautify the appearance, and express personality.
Such as notebook stickers, mobile phone stickers, luggage stickers, etc., are only for visual decoration.
The stickers have rich patterns, bright colors, and changeable shapes, and can be made into various creative styles such as special shapes, gradients, and lasers.
It has a high degree of freedom, no fixed format requirements, and completely follows aesthetic and trend design.
As a daily decoration, we can add stickers to our daily items to give them a personal touch.
Therefore, its production threshold and price are very low. Unlike labels, which have strict requirements on glue viscosity, abrasion resistance, temperature resistance, and waterproofness.
For short-term use in daily life, it can be replaced at will without having to consider its appropriate use environment.
If it's broken, just replace it with a new one and stick it on again.
Do you often see these two words when searching for stickers: die cut and kiss cut.
These are actually two very common types for stickers.
Die cut slices through both sticker and liner to separate each piece completely.
Kiss cut only cuts the sticker surface while keeping the liner intact, so stickers stay connected for easy storage.
The composition of labels is roughly the same as stickers, consisting of facestock, adhesive and backing paper.
But its main function is to carry information, standardize labels, traceability instructions, and display quality.
Our common product description stickers, anti-counterfeiting stickers, size labels, logistics labels, and ingredient labels all fall into the category of labels.
Key Features of Labels
1. Practical first, decoration second
The core value of labels is to mark valid information, including product name, ingredients, production date, shelf life, specifications, anti-counterfeiting codes, barcodes, QR codes, manufacturers and other standardized information.
Some high-end labels will be equipped with hot stamping, embossing and other processes to enhance the texture, but decoration is only an additional attribute.
2. Strict standards
Labels are the main way for consumers to obtain key product information.
Therefore, commercial and industrial labels must strictly abide by industry regulations and national labeling standards.
Information layout, font size, content elements, and material performance all have clear requirements and cannot be designed at will.
It is necessary to guarantee compliant, traceable and verifiable product information to protect consumer rights and stabilize the market.
3.Strong durability
Labels have extremely strict standards for production technology, glue quality, and substrate performance.
Problems such as easy breakage, falling off, fading, etc. are not allowed.
Therefore, it needs to be considered that it has to deal with complex environments such as moisture, high temperature, friction, and exposure.
It needs to have multiple stable properties such as waterproof, oil-proof, friction resistance, high and low temperature resistance, and anti-falling resistance.
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