Always Full Speed Ahead, with tesa
Flexographic Label Printing
From barcodes to holographic film labels, the times when labels served only to tell what a product was, and nothing more, are definitely long gone. Labels have become an important feature of marketing strategies and labor intensive packaging designs.

15-Mil Plate Mounting Tape Family
tesa® Plate Mounting Tapes – for best print results
In label printing, quick and straight forward tape handling really matters so that plates can be easily replaced. Labels for modern-day packaging require complex print motifs – fine screen, exact barcode, fine color gradients, and solid areas. Labels must be produced in the highest quality on paper or film.
A specialized assortment with two different grades of foam hardness and various film-based qualities provides solutions for all plates. tesa offers a range of new products, with differentiated adhesive strengths, promoting damage-free demounting of thin plates.

tesa® Softprint
tesa® Softprint – Optimum Thickness Tolerances
The properties of the PE (polyethylene) foam in use have been optimized with thickness tolerance in mind – the foam has been neither thermally nor mechanically manipulated during production. The constant tape thickness supports consistent ink distribution. Set-up time is also reduced, especially important for repeat jobs.

Increase of Peel Adhesion
Always the right adhesive strength, thereby ensuring:
- Simple repositioning of tape and plate before printing
- High bond strength during printing, ensuring no edge lifting, even when using the tape a second time
- Simple and residue-free demounting of plate and tape following printing, made possible by a low increase in peel adhesion

Recovery Rate
The Details Make the Difference
- The tesa® Softprint foam has an optimized recovery capability, guaranteeing consistent print results at higher speeds
- Higher foam elasticity transmits even the finest plate details
- Magnification under screen-electron-microscopes reveals the secret of the tesa® Softprint foam - small, completely closed, spherical foam cells - very evenly distributed cell structure