A sticker is usually a transfer picture from paper or plastics, which prints on on a side, on which other side with a self adhesive surface is equipped.

In the usual form stickers enjoy of special popularity with children. Stickers can be also plakative means of publicity. Often are label in form of a label as stickers out-arranged. Contrary to rubberizing the adhesive surface does not have to be moistened. Stickers exist in very different forms.

Adhesive label

An adhesive label in most diverse materials functions as storage medium or advertising medium. Depending upon application the composition of the adhesive label is different. The adhesive label consists of the surface material, which adhesive and in the original condition of the self adhesive label the carrier paper, on which it is available.

Intended purposes for adhesive labels are price tags and bar codes on goods, booklet and book labels at school for the marking of the owner, labels on packing made of glass or metal (in the commercial as within the private sector), memos for the marking of all conceivable articles or for decoration the same.

Materials for adhesive labels can be:

• Paper (unpainted, matt painted, gloss painted),
• Plastic (PE, PP, PVC, PET),
• Special materials (Tyvec (R), polyolefins).

Possibilities of the assembly with information:

• Thermaldirectly (thermosensitive layer in the material when heating up the color changes. Usually black in addition, red, blue and black/red and blue/red available),
• Thermal transfer (color material by heating up to the surface one transfers).

Depending upon constellation the color material can become "burned" also into the surface. Compression matters for labels are: Photo-composition, digital pressure, offset printing, screen printing, flexographic printing.

The following adhesive types are defined: Rubber/resin, synthesis india rubber, silicone/india rubber/resin and Akrylat. With adhesive labels mainly synthetic india rubber and Akrylat of adhesives are used.

Package sticker

A package sticker leads a package from the sender to the must the setting address of the receiver as well as the return address at least be imprinted. The sticker is provided from cost reasons nearly only in the thermal direct compression matter. The adhesive and the electrosensitive paper should be so constituted that the sticker with take off from the package one destroys.

Additionally the frequently following data are imprinted:

• Date
• Weight
• Number of packages (package X of Y)
• Package number/Identcode as bar code and plain language (see also NVE)
• Routing bar code (s)/guidance code
• Routungsinformation
• Frankatur
• Kind of service (in the example express service 24Std)
• Remark (e.g. please do not throw)

Example

Bapperl

A Bapperl is in the closer sense a sticker, if necessary also a Anstecker and/or a Sticker. The term is a dialect expression from that the Bavarian linguistic area.

Nowadays the term Bapperl in the broader sense is used every now and then - strictly falsely - within the computer range for graphic picture symbols, which are used in form of a pictogram, in order to exercise a designation function. It is related used to that extent the Signet and understood as graphic counterpart to the logogram.

Bapperl is conceptually related to with the usually only colloquially used verb anpappen and is in the connection to see with the terms hibickn for "to limp-live" as well as Bickerl for Vignette. Is "stick (bappn) "in Bavaria and "picken (bickn) "in Austria the more common in each case word for the high-German verb "stick ".

Aufbabber

A Aufbabber is in the closer sense a sticker, if necessary also a Anstecker and/or a Sticker. The term is a Dialektaudruck from the hessian linguistic area

Sticker

The term Sticker (of English more sticker = sticker) designates a small sticker, on which symbols and/or motives are painted, drawn or printed.

Occasionally Stickeralben are, thus collecting albums for Sticker similar to the poetry albums much like among children.

In the Streetartszene Sticker is regarded also as variant of the Graffiti, at which instead of with the spray bottle with stickers one works. These are stuck together if possible in the whole city, at as remarkable a places as possible. Even large sized posters are partly stuck, see Stickerkunst.

See also

• Transfer picture
• Logografie
• Pickerl
• Wine label

Literature

• Bernhard van Treeck: The large Graffiti encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Imprint publishing house, Berlin, 2001, ISBN 3-89602-292-X

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