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What Do You Need To Know?
Full Wax
The most common choice and versatile for any application. They’re ideal for shorter term use such as shipping and retail labels. Use them with both coated and uncoated paper stock.
Resin Enhanced Wax
More durable and they provide resistance to moisture, scratching, abrasion, sunlight, and moderate temperature change. They’re ideal for medium term uses such as pharmaceutical, and archival labels. Use them with paper and film.
Full Resin
Highest resistance to moisture, scratching, abrasion, sunlight, extreme temperature changes, water, chemicals, machinery, outdoors, and UV exposure. They’re ideal for long lasting/permanent uses such as medical, chemicals, textiles, automotive, and flexible packaging. Use them with film labels.
Your ribbon coating side depends solely on your printer.
Coated Side Out - Zebra® Thermal Transfer printers use this.
Coated Side In - Datamax®, Intermec®, and SATA® printers use this.
I'm the regional purchasing manager for a retail chain and we've now switched to Altro after the test purchase. Solid B2B operations these guys are known for. 5 stars.
Great premium thermal ribbons for matte synthetics and film - passed the test.
We've had some bad experiences with zebra compatible thermal ribbons in the past so we're always skeptical of new companies but the low prices here charmed us. We chose to buy since Altro Labels is well known and respected for their custom labels too - they're instagram page is awesome. CHEERS.
Shipping labels and thermal transfer ribbons might seem very standard but when your business relies on them the quality is key - but so is price. Our ecommerce company uses these and were happy to buy from a modern label company.
Happy to buy our office supplies from Altro Labels. Free shipping to our offices in Vancouver was soild. SHOP LOCAL! Canadian made too!
