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Need help finding a good cheap bopp or vinyl that will adhere and stay on pre roll tubes without peeling or falling off!

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CanuckSigns

Active Member
What is a pre roll tube? Up here it's the plastic tube your joint comes in when you buy it,but I assume you are talking about something different...
 
Gino

Gino

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G8TORGRAPHICS said:
Need help finding a good cheap bopp or vinyl that will adhere and stay on pre roll tubes without peeling or falling off!
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You're kidding, right. People use these words all the time together. It just doesn't work. Get the stuff you already deal with and know and charge accordingly
 
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GB2

Old Member

What is BOPP exactly?​

BOPP stands for biaxially-oriented polypropylene. It’s a variant of polypropylene (PP). Polypropylene a thermoplastic polymer, alternately known as polypropene. It’s an ideal printing surface and can be made into labels and stickers, as well as textiles and a host of different plastic parts and materials.

BOPP is essentially polypropylene that’s stretched flat. BOPP is oriented with a system that stretches it in two directions. This is where the “biaxially-oriented (BO)” part of BOPP comes from.

BOPP film can be white, metal-colored, or clear. The ability to make clear BOPP film allows the creation of transparent labels to show off the contents of clear containers. With the appropriate inks and adhesives, BOPP labels can also be waterproof. BOPP labels immersed in ice-water or subjected to high-humidity without deteriorating. Labels made from BOPP are extremely tough. The material offers exceptional resistance to fatigue compared to other common label materials and has an unusual resistance to common solvents, bases, and acids. For food labels, BOPP film offers significant advantages. It’s non-toxic. The material’s also resistant to solvents and acids. Many food and beverage items, such as those containing tomatoes, citrus, or coffee, are quite acidic. Even when the items don’t directly touch the labels, there can be some off-gassing or limited contact during the manufacturing process that can stain or cause deterioration in other label materials. Using BOPP film for your labels can help mitigate this issue. These same properties make BOPP well-suited for bottle labels, jar labels, and canning labels.
 
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GB2

Old Member
BOPP is typically sold in rolls and you need the ability to print on narrow rolls to use it. Specific label printers are able to print on these roll materials, they are not made for printing on wide format printers such as HP, Roland, etc. Once they are printed then they can be laminated and/or finished (cut & weeded) and then they are rewound onto small cores for use. They can also be printed on pre-die cut material so all you need to do is print and rewind onto small cores. Other materials such as papers are made into labels in the same manner. These are things not typically found in the sign industry but are specific to label printing. Generally speaking, labels are usually on rolls while stickers and decals are on sheets or individually cut.
 
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