What is the Film - What does film mean??

As a general term film can simply be used to refer to any thin layer of material thin is a relative term but modern manufacturing techniques are capable of creating layers that are anything from fractions of a nanometre nm 0 000 000 001 metres to several micrometres m 0 000 001 metres In labelling the term is used to refer more specifically to a thin transparent or opaque material manufactured from synthetic polymers e g polyester polyethylene polyolefin vinyl etc and used to create face materials and backing sheets in pressure sensitive labels

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Web - What does web mean?

Definition of WEB:

A continuous roll of a flexible material (such as paper, film, or foil) that is in the process of being formed, converted, or printed. The web can either be cut down into sheets during the manufacturing process or sent to converters or printers in roll form.

In printing, a web is any substrate (such as paper or film) in continuous roll form that is used in web-fed printers and web-based forms of printing such as flexography, gravure, and offset lithographic printing.

A web of paper being processed in a paper factory.

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

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