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Technical Data Sheet
Edition 1
Date: 14/05/2004
Letratag Plastic tape
Letratag tape is a direct thermal tape available in six colors. Each cassette contains one
tape of 12 mm width and 4 m length.
Property Unit Value Test method
1. General
- Thickness tape
- Thickness liner Micron
Micron 145 ± 10 %
55 ± 10 % Micrometer
2. Adhesive properties
- to stainless steel
- to glass
- to PVC
- to textured ABS
- to powder coated steel
- to wood
- to polypropylene film glossy
- to polyethylene
- to tupperware
- to steel computer casing
N/25mm
Dwell
20 min 24 hrs
10 11
9 11
11 14
8 9
7 8
3 4
8 11
3 4
9 9
1 1
PSTC-1
3. Abrasion resistance of text
printed in Letratag
- Pencil erasure
- Polystyrene pin
- Sandpaper
Chemical resistance of text
printed in Letratag
- Eurosuper
- Diesel
- Isopropylalcohol
- Ethanol
30x
30x
30x
30x
30x
30x
10x
No visible effect
No visible effect
No visible effect
No visible effect
No visible effect
Printing gone
Printing gone
Crockmeter,
900g
weight/arm
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2
- Ethyl acetate
- Skydrol (hydraulic engine oil)
- Sabesto (brake fluid cleaner)
- Exxsol 40 (cleaning solvent)
- ULS (cleaning solvent)
- Ether
- Acetone
- Toluene
- Dreft
- Water
- Vim
- General degreaser
- Synthetic thinner
- White spirit
- Oil spots remover
- Cellullose thinner
- Calgonit
- Sun brilliance
- Instanet
- Antikal
- Nafta
- Workspace degreaser
3x
30x
5x
30x
5x
15x
10 x
10 x
30 x
30 x
30 x
30x
30x
30 x
30 x
10 x
30x
30 x
30x
30 x
30 x
5x
Printing gone
Printing gone
Printing gone
No visible effect
Printing gone
Printing gone
Printing gone
Printing gone
No visible effect
No visible effect
No visible effect
Severe print removal
Printing gone
No visible effect
No visible effect
Printing gone
No visible effect
No visible effect
No visible effect
No visible effect
No visible effect
Printing gone
4. Light stability of printed label
- 5 days in suntester with glass
filter (corresponds with 2 months
exposure behind window glass)
- 5 days in suntester with UV- filter
(corresponds with 2 months
outdoor exposure)
No visible effect on
text or background.
Slight discoloration of
background. No
visible effect on text.
5. Temperature stability
- Application temperature
- Short term high service
temperature
- 10’ at 60°C
- 10’ at 70°C
- 10’ at 80°C
°C Room temperature
No visible effect on
text and background
No visible effect on
text and background
No visible effect on
text and background.
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3
-10’ at 90°C
- Long term low service
Temperature
- 30 days at –18°C
No visible effect on
text and background.
No visible effect on
text and background.
6. Humidity resistance of applied
label
- 30 days at 40°C, 95 % R.H.
(on alu panel) Slight discoloration of
text. No visible effect
on background.
7. Shelf life of label roll
1 year at 5-25°C and
40-85% relative
humidity when stored
in its original
packaging. We are
confident that our
product will perform
well beyond this
frame. However, it
remains the
responsibility of the
user to assess the
risk of using such
product.
Scratch resistance : The printed labels are subjected to different scratching sources for a fixed
number of cycles with a finger weight of 900g.
