What is the Flexibility - What is flexibility??

A property of materials usually paper that allows them to conform to the contours of a curved or rough surface In labelling flexibility is important for both the printing process and the application of a label Many printers use rollers to transport material and a flexible material will be able to pass through or around rollers without the labels peeling off It also allows for full surface contact where the substrate needs to wrap around a cylindrical image carrier to receive the image being printed If a label is being applied to a curved surface it needs to be flexible enough to bend around the substrate and remain in place there inflexible materials will often end up peeling off the substrate particularly if the memory of the label is stronger than the adhesive Flexibility is most important for labels that are being applied to cylindrical objects such as bottles and jars

Glossary

Grade - What does grade mean?

Definition of GRADE:

A system used to classify different types of paper based on a number of key properties including the appearance, characteristics, manufacturing process, and intended end use of the material. These properties include a wide variety of qualities, such as abrasiveness and abrasion resistance, absorbancy, basis weight, brightness, colour, durability, finish (including any coatings), flexibility, opacity or transparency, raw materials used, performance, porosity, stability, and surface strength.

Various sheets of paper of different grades fanned out on a surface.

Here is the Harvard-style citation to use if you would like to reference this definition of the word grade:
Label Planet (2020) What does grade mean? | Grade Definition. Available at: https://www.labelplanet.co.uk/glossary/grade/ (Accessed: January 1, 2024).

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