What is a label?

Physical labels are brief tags used to indicate the name, weight, volume, use and other information of an item. There are traditional printed labels and modern barcode printed labels.

The scope of use of labels:

Packaging: mark labels, postal parcels, letter packages, transport goods labeling, envelope address labels.

Electrical appliances: cell phone internal labels, a variety of electrical appliances labels, laptop computer labels, electromechanical products labels.

Production: raw material labeling, processed product labeling, finished product labeling, inventory management labels.

Expanded Information

Other applications of the label:

1, labeling a simple message of the small sign. For example: dog tags (Dog tag).

2, tags (metadata), keywords or assign information information about an item, including a narrative and object relevance of a kind of metadata. Used in file management, articles, Web site classification and so on.

Some are the back of the self-adhesive, but there are also some printing without adhesive, adhesive labels is commonly known as self-adhesive labels, without adhesive labels, in the labeling needs to be coated with adhesive before sticking to the product, for example, most of the beer labels at the time of printing are my teachings, it is the manufacturer through the brush adhesive way to affix it.

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