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Headquartered in Stow, Ohio, MACtac Printing Products—a global supplier of pressure sensitive adhesives—helped the United States Postal Service (USPS) set holiday stamps aglow with a commemorative, 42-cent, first-class Hanukkah stamp. The company provided the pressure-sensitive adhesive label materials for 25 million Hanukkah stamps. The stamp features a color-transitioning spelling of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, with a wooden dreidel, or sevivon, exhibiting a colorful village scene. “These stamps not only feature an element of a long-standing Hanukkah tradition, they are a part of the worldwide card-sending tradition of the holiday season,” said Allison Hazel, marketing manager. “MACtac is pleased to be

MACtac Graphic Products, Stow, Ohio, is helping businesses expand the possibilities for untapped advertising space. StreetRap delivers the perfect short-term advertising and promotions vehicle for retailers, schools, public buildings, sports and other entertainment venues, and is ideal for outdoor events, grand openings and even plant safety messages. Featuring a 3.4-mil construction, StreetRap’s aggressive high-tack adhesive was designed for short-term applications for unsealed, outdoor, pedestrian concrete, asphalt and cinder block surfaces. It is also great for indoor concrete graphics, such as trade show or convention center floors, as well as selected smooth to slightly rough wall surfaces. Incorporating MACtac’s PERMACOLOR PF6300—a durable, slip-resistant 5.0-mil clear

With the recent launch of its new INDIE line of certified label stocks specially engineered for Indigo press technology, MACtac Printing Products, Stow, Ohio, is challenging printers to experience the digital label difference for themselves. Printers who submit three samples of any label job printed on INDIE digital stocks will be entered in MACtac’s INDIE HDTV sweepstakes for the chance to win a 42-inch plasma screen television. Printers will be entered once for every three samples they submit with the final drawing to select one grand prize winner held on Monday, Dec. 15. “With the broadest line of digital roll stocks on the market,

Since the inception of pressure-sensitive adhesives, manufacturers and converters have been unable to develop a product that converts cleanly at industry-setting high speeds while offering excellent, aggressive adhesion properties. Now, Stow, Ohio-based MACtac Printing Products has unveiled its new InFusion hybrid adhesive system. The tag line—Everything Else is History—speaks volumes to the benefits the product brings to labels and the labeling market. Years in the making, InFusion blends adhesive and silicone chemistry to create a unique, unprecedented, proprietary formula with aggressive adhesion, fast and clean converting, improved die-cutting and superior matrix stripping at industry-setting speeds. “This product has been in development for years, and

By Maggie DeWitt Undoubtedly, the healthcare market is responsible for improving the quality of life for many industry professionals. There is simply no end to the demand for new solutions and services resulting from advances in patient care and workflows. For instance, new printing processes are being explored to satisfy prescription labeling applications, leading converters to discover new products compatible with these technologies. This month’s mystery product is one of the fruits of their labor. Check out the following clues to guess what the product is: • It offers outstanding environmental resistance. • It helps to reduce costs and enhance

While all graphics—indoor or outdoor—need protection from the elements, sometimes marrying exceptional performance with short-term cost is a challenge. Through the development of PrintCover Overlaminating Films from Stow, Ohio-based MACtac Graphic Products, there is now a solution that provides the right price to value for short-term laminating projects. As an extension to the company’s industry-leading line of Permacolor overlaminates, PrintCover features an excellent advanced adhesive system that is ideal for inkjet printed – especially UV printed – short-term graphics, such as point-of-purchase signs, menus and other promotional graphics. “One of the most compelling features of MACtac’s PrintCover overlaminate is that it uses the most

There is nothing more frustrating than trying to remove a label only to have a few flimsy specks of the top ply come off, leaving behind most of the label with a few fuzzy-looking adhesive patches showing through. Further attempts at removal only result in broken fingernails and gouges in the surface bearing the now unsightly label remnants. Well, Stow, Ohio based MACtac Printing Products has developed a dissolvable label stock for producing labels that completely dissolve in water—face, adhesive and all. The dissolvable label serves a variety of applications, particularly in the areas of food service and health care, where label use