Brother Tape Technology Everything to make laminated labels is preloaded To help make printing laminated labels on-demand reliable and trouble free, Brother preloads all consumables needed into a drop-in cartridge design. This means that when you print a laminated label, everything needed to produce that laminated label is already resident within the cartridge. So the printed How your laminated label is printed label that emerges is already laminated theres no content is printed under the lamination additional process necessary to produce the finished label. You can simply peel off the backing and apply The print head transfers the ink to the underside of the the label to virtually any surface, immediately. lamination, and then a pressure roller combines the printed lamination to the face stock, and pushes Each cartridge contains: the laminated label to the cutting position where the label is then cut to your desirable length. A supply roll of colored polyester face stock with an acrylic adhesive coated on both sides (with silicon liner The laminated labels are produced from a continuous on bottom side) tape available in 6 standard widths (36mm, 24mm, 18mm, 12mm, 9mm and 6mm) and in the following Supply and take up rolls for a colored adhesive types: ink ribbon designed to transfer to the polyester lamination Standard Adhesive Designed with a medium adhesive coating for general purpose applications A supply roll of matte finish or glossy with a smooth and flat surface clear polyester lamination Extra-Strength Adhesive Designed with a soft adhesive coating to increase surface area contact on plastics or textured surfaces Flexible ID Designed with a hard adhesive coating to apply adhesive to adhesive (flag label) or adhesive to laminate (wrap around) for labeling cables and wires Tamper-Evident Designed with a special face stock that breaks apart if the laminated label is disturbed or removedBrother Tape Technology Tape durability test results Brother used an independent laboratory in Japan to conduct durability testing on all Brother laminated labels. These tests include measuring the performance for abrasion, fading, hot and cold temperatures, exposure to chemicals and moisture. Abrasion Resistance After 50 round-trip passes with a 1kg weighted sand eraser, Brother laminated tapes only came up slightly scratched with the characters underneath completely unaffected. Chemicals and Water Having bathed Brother laminated tapes in a variety of materials for two hours, they still managed to remain affixed to their surfaces with little damage. Even chemical spills, with a quick wiping, result in minimal damage. Laminated Tape Adhesive Strength Brother laminated tapes will adhere to almost any surface including: stainless steel, glass, PVC, acrylic, polypropylene, and polyester-coated wood. The tapes stand up to hot, cold, and humid conditions, and even adhere better when heated. Smooth, rough, flat or rounded surfaces are no problem for Brother laminated tapes. Fade Resistance Brother laminated tapes were attached to coated metal plates, and placed in a fade-inducing chamber at 83 degrees C for 100 hours to simulate a year in a sunny environment. Then they were placed in a chamber at 63 degrees C for 400 hours to simulate a year in, not only heat and light, but water as well. Only yellow tapes showed significant signs of fading while the others showed little sign of fading to the eye. Dielectric Strength In tests performed by Brother , white P-touch tapes with black characters began to lose their electric resistance at an applied voltage of 8kv, and lost their resistance entirely at 11kv. Most other color variations will have the same resistance.