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The products obtained from the exudations of trees and sometimes used as adhesive, coatings or sealer bases. Common natural resins are the copals, damar, shellac accroides, sandarac, rosin and mastic.

Derived from the latex of rubber trees. It imparts tack and adhesion properties to pressure-sensitive adhesives.

This encompasses various print processes including Thermal (direct and indirect), Ink Jet and Toner.

A manufactured sheet, web or batt of directionally or randomly oriented fibers, bonded by friction and/or cohesion and/or adhesion, excluding paper and products that are woven, knitted, tufted, stitch bonded incorporating binding yarns or filaments, or felted by wet milling.

A strong plastic that can be used as a film with high oil and gas resistance or used as filament in strapping tapes, with high impact resistance.

Layers of tape are in correct alignment, but tape is displaced sideways on core.

Occurs when a printed tape is unwound and some of the printing ink is picked off by the adhesive or migrates into the adhesive. It is, in effect, a delamination of the ink.

A “squeezing out” of the adhesive from under the backing, occurring when the tape is in roll form, the edges of the roll become tacky.

Property of a paper/film (AKA hiding power) which prevents show through of dark printing or in contact with the backside of the sheet (opposite of transparency).