Adhesive Name Badges & Labels
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Adhesive Name Badges And Labels
Two rolls sitting side by side on a desk look near enough identical and do opposite jobs. One is the badge: a name lands on white, the white lands on a shirt. The other is a layer: a name lands on clear film, and the film goes over a badge that already has a design on it.
Both arrive blank, which is the whole point. You print names as they come, keeping you ready for walk-ins, reprints, and more.
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White is the entire badge. Matte surface, adhesive back, flexible enough to sit flat on a shirt instead of lifting at one edge by mid-morning.
Clear is transparent polypropylene. The print lands in black and everything you did not print stays see-through, so a name appears on the badge while the artwork underneath carries on. It resists water and it does not fade.
Counts vary more than you would expect. Clear runs 250 to a roll on a 1" core. White runs 840 or 1,240 depending on the size, so one roll can carry a whole conference.
Most of these have rounded corners, which is the detail that stops an edge catching on a jacket lining and starting to peel. The 2.4" x 3.9" die-cut label and anything cut from a continuous roll come out square.
Every roll arrives blank. You print on site, on whichever printer you own, and what comes out is whatever your registration list says.
This pairs perfectly with pre-printed badges for efficiency and an elegant, colorful credential.
Four things decide whether a roll works in your printer. Direct thermal, with no ribbon loaded. The media width your printer accepts, and the print width, which is the smaller of the two. A 1-inch core and a roll up to 5 inches across.
Clear labels need one thing more. Clear film is too transparent for a printer to find the label edge by looking through the liner, so every clear roll carries a black mark on the back instead. Your printer has to be able to read that mark, which most can and some cheaper ones cannot.
Confirmed on Zebra ZD420, ZD421, ZD500, ZD620, ZD621 and ZD888d. Honeywell PC42d, PC42t, PC42E-T, PC43d, PC43t, PD45, PD45S and E-Class Mark III. TSC DA210 through DA320, TE200 through TE310, TC210 and TC310. Godex DT4x, RT700i+, G500 and G530. Toshiba BV410D, BV420D and B-FV4D. Plus the 4-inch models from Argox, Bixolon, Citizen, Wasp, Panduit, Postek, Rongta, Sewoo, SNBC, Xprinter, HPRT and Avery Dennison.
These will not work. Dymo LabelWriter 550, 550 Turbo and 5XL accept only Dymo's own chipped rolls. Brady i3300 uses a cartridge. Every Epson thermal label printer stops at 3.15 inches wide. Epson ColorWorks and Primera are inkjet, which cannot mark thermal material at all.
The 2.4-inch Brother rolls are a separate case. They fit Brother QL printers only, because the spool is part of the roll and nothing else takes that shape. Every QL model we checked runs them, from the QL-500 to the QL-1110NWB.
Printer not on the list? Send us the model and we will check compatibility for you.
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White if the label is the badge and it is going on somebody's shirt. Clear if a printed badge already exists and the only missing piece is the name.
Plenty of events buy both and use them for different parts of the same day.
White is direct thermal label material with an adhesive back. Clear is transparent polypropylene film, and the 4" x 3" clear line is BOPP, which travels flatter through a printer than softer films do.
Small badge. Short list. A 3" x 2" white label holds a name and a company comfortably, and 4" x 3" gives you room for a job title or a QR code as well.
For a clear label, measure the clear space you left in your artwork and match the label to that rather than to the badge outline. The 1.1" and 1.4" rolls are for marking an access level on a badge somebody is already wearing.
They print black. Direct thermal works by heating the material until it darkens, which gives you one color and no argument about it.
Anything in color has to be on the badge before the label goes on.
None of the three. The roll is the only thing that gets used up, which is one less box to pack and one less thing to run out of at eight in the morning.
Because the badge can be printed properly, in color, on good material, well before anyone arrives. That leaves one job for the day, which is the name.
A clear label handles it in about a second per person and the design underneath still looks like the design.
A white adhesive badge needs neither. It goes on the shirt and comes off at the end of the day.
A clear label is going onto a badge that may already have a holder and a lanyard, and none of that changes.
A marker works fine on white, which makes it a reasonable backup for a walk-in or a speaker nobody warned you about. Clear film is less forgiving, since ink sits on the surface instead of soaking in.
The clear film resists water and does not fade, which counts for something once a badge has been handled for eight hours.
White on clothing is built to hold for the length of an event. Fabrics differ, so try one on the actual shirt before you order a thousand.
It depends on the size, more than you would think. Clear is 250 a roll. White is 840 or 1,240. Die-cut rolls run 300, 400 or 800.
Continuous rolls are sold by length instead, because you decide how long each label is. White paper is 100 ft and clear film 50 ft.
Die-cut labels are already cut to size, so every one is identical and the count is known. Continuous is one long strip and the printer cuts it wherever you tell it to.
That second option is how a label printer ends up making a sign for the registration table.
Sheets suit a desk drawer and a batch of twelve. Rolls suit a queue, because the printer keeps feeding instead of waiting for somebody to load a tray.
Blank is the only way they come. Printing them is your side of the job, and it is exactly why they work for check-in.
Very likely, as long as the width matches. What decides it is the media width your printer accepts, the core size it takes, and how it finds the start of each label.
The printer compatibility list on this page covers the models we have confirmed. If yours is not on it, send us the model and we will check.