Who Invented The Sticky Label?
Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009
by Mark Bartley
Asking who invented the sticky label is a bit like asking who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-d
And us? We are the fortunate beneficiaries. The inheritors of their fine invention, daily enjoying the fruits of their efforts and taking full advantage of their legacy in creating a sticky label world. Just look around you. They're everywhere, performing a huge number of roles and in a huge range of materials, styles, finishes, shapes, sizes and colours. From bar codes to clear labels to food and medicine use labels, sales labels, promotional stickers, shelf markers, wine labels, security labels, product labelling, textile labelling, user guidelines, mail shot labels. Life without stickers is hard to imagine. More than likely you use them at home or within your company for a whole variety of tasks.
The combination of sticky labels and new technology offers virtually unlimited choice of sticky label designs. Choose from short runs of colour labels on your laser printer to high volume bar code label or mail list printing with a thermal transfer label printer.
Of course the extended range of possibilities means that there are a mind boggling and even slightly overwhelming range of different sticky labels on the market. Your best course of action when considering which type of sticky label will best suit your requirement is to consult a stationery expert. Go online to quickly find a company that not only deals in a selection of different sticky labels but can clearly displays their credentials. Maybe they are well established and already work with a lot of companies, many like yours, maybe they have a reputation that proceeds them. Use their experience and expertise to help identify the labels to meet your specific needs.
Here are some of the label options you will encounter. Address labels that you can use for mail shots, continuous labels suitable for printers such as Dymo Labelwriters and typewriters or for use in dispensers. Filing labels for office administration and organisation are specially designed to fit the spine of Lever Arch, Ring Binders, Elasticated Folders, Box Files and Suspension Files, and transparent labels. Media labels designed to fit electronic data storage media e.g. video cassettes both face and spine, legacy 3.5 in diskettes and Zip disks. Anti-tamper labels which are durable non-tear polymer labels and ideal for securing confidential documents with special label construction revealing a "STOP" message upon attempted removal. White labels, clear labels that blend effortlessly with white and light coloured backgrounds to give you a highly individual and distinctive professional touch. Enough choices for you?
Be sure to look for labels from the best known brands such as Avery, Dymo, and Brother. The better suppliers will have websites bursting with useful advice and guidance to help you use their products successfully without wastage, and will be more than happy to take a call if you want to talk with a specialist in person. You should be able to not only pick up extremely helpful recommendations but also some incredibly good prices.
There are various suppliers of labels and using them effectively means buying at a fair price and printing efficiently. This review provides useful advice to help the inexperienced label buyer. More information about labels for both commercial and home offices is provided by Mark Bartley in his other reviews.
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Top-level comments on this article: (7 total)Good article. Well done.Sorry, I don't get it. Who invented the sticky label?Anyway, the article was well written from a linguistic stance and Welcome to SearchWarp.
Nicely written article, and some good information about sticky labels! The title is a bit of a tease though, as you don't reveal the answer :)
so much cash has been made by people who invent such invisible,unseen and unobsequious inventions,such as sticky labels;Im frankly jealous!
Very interesting Mark! I guess I never know there were so many options. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Mark.Thank you for this interesting article. Why did not I think/invented that? , we often say. The Post-It note was invented by Arthur Fry of Minnesota while working at 3M as a New Product Development Researcher. The unique adhesive of Post-It was invented by Spencer Silver, a colleague of Fry.Thanks again for sharing.Nenita
"They did. Before they invented the sticky label it didn't exist." Mark, one thing for sure, now I know. I loved the reading with a ...smile... Before, I heard and they said did it. But, thanks to you, I know now.
This is a well written essay on the topic of sticky labels. It reminded me of Seinfeld in the sense that average folks don't generally spend much time contemplating such things as sticky labels, kleenex, cereal boxes, etc. It was a pleasure to read.
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