Transparent. This is one word to describe clear packaging tape. Although a very obvious synonym, I think it deserves to be addressed. Clear doesn’t necessarily mean transparent, but when you are purchasing some ultra clear packaging tape from PackagingSupplies.com transparent is exactly what it is.
You can see right down to the cardboard core, and with other tapes that might be clear when they are only one layer deep, they are certainly not transparent when they are on the roll. Buy the ultra clear when needing to protect labels on packages and what not.
Crystalline. Wow. What a word. It almost seems a little blasphemous to be using this word when talking about clear packaging tape. Once again, I must harken to the ultra clear at PackagingSupplies.com. It really is crystalline. Of course this is just a really fancy way of saying ‘transparent’, but it means ‘like a crystal’, which is like glass, which is obviously transparent.
Do you know how, in the movies, someone smiles and a little light dings off their shiny, well-exposed teeth? This is what happens when you use ultra clear packaging tape. A little light will ring a bell and the beholder will be dazzled. Yes, I’m still talking about clear packaging tape.
To be a bit more low-key with my word choices I turn to ‘undarkened’. This is the most obvious of all synonyms, but then again…not really. Just because something is clear doesn’t mean that it’s also undarkened. There is such a thing as tinted glass, and plastic, and what have you, which is still clear because you can see through it but dark at the same time because of the color. Not so with clear packaging tape. It is untinted, if you will. PackagingSupplies.com does sell different colored packaging tape, but that is for a different time and place.
Last but not least is ‘pellucid’. This is a word that I have never heard before, which is kind of new for me because I like to think that my vocabulary is broad indeed. Pellucid means to allow the most amount of light through, like glass. Once again: translucent. This a Latin word by origin, which makes total sense. It is used often in classic literature to describe people jumping through puddles, or a musician’s music as clear as clear could be, and others.
We might have started talking about clear packaging tape, but when we begin to use these vast and mysterious words we soon find ourselves traveling through places and times, and as much as we have learned about a product we have also expanded our vocabularies at the same time. Which is pretty copasetic, if you ask me.
Where did you use it? At work, of course. My husband works in the aviation field, and you may not think stretch film wrap would show up there, but it is a vital asset in most industrial type jobs.
What does any of this have to do with bin liners, you may ask. Well, before we had bins we had barrels. Sometimes I just have to marvel at the progression of things. We couldn’t even just stop at bins, mass-produced and disposable as they are. We went on to develop bin liners, which go in the bins to better sustain the product inside, and to prolong the life of the bin as well.
The extra heavy double wall brown corrugated box. This box is a box in a box, the inside layer strengthening the outside layer. Never again will you have to worry about the shipping carton breaking open and raining bricks down on the feet and shins of some poor, unsuspecting delivery man. Which means that never again will you have to worry about the threat of lawsuit. You can only pay people off in decorative boulders for so long, know what I mean? So stop crossing your fingers and hoping for the best, and start buying extra heavy shipping boxes wholesale.
So, when I say that there is nothing like some custom shipping bags, you can get the drift that I’m talking about more than just a garbage bag, or a sandwich baggie. If you go to PackagingSupplies.com you will see exactly what I’m talking about. Oh sure, you will find your garbage bags and sandwich bags there, too, because PackagingSupplies.com is serious about their business, and they understand that people have a need for these everyday products.
When I first developed my own, personal business I knew that one of the things I would need from the get-go, and plenty of, were custom shipping boxes. I knew that I would need a large volume of a variety of sizes of boxes on hand at all times. After doing a lot of research, and reading a lot of reviews, I decided to use PackagingSupplies.com for my shipping needs. I have never regretted that decision!
You can really up the prices on something you are trying to sell when stuffing one of these bad boys. Not that we did that with our chocolate covered pretzels. We gave those away for gifts, mostly at Christmas time. Take a mug from the dollar store bearing the face of Rudolph, tie some bells on the handle from the same place, fill it with chocolate covered pretzels (the long kind, not the braided ones), and put it one of these bags, tied with a ribbon, and voila, people think they have gotten a pretty classy gift. And it’s not about being cheap. It’s about still being able to give beautiful gifts to people you care about, even when you can barely afford to keep the electricity on. Now that’s the stuff of Christmas cheer! Seriously, though, polypropylene bags is what really brings it all together. Can’t forget those, or else it’s just a nice try, which is really just a flop. What else is in the family of plastic shipping bags? I’m glad you asked. Shrink wrap bags. Yup, you guessed it. Bags that you put something in and then heat it up and the wrap shrinks around the item. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this is what makes it possible for bootlegger’s. You will never guess that the DVD case clearly representing The Titanic actually carries a homemade video of some kids practicing Spanish. This is because with shrink wrap bags you can wrap the DVD to make it look brand new. First, you need to make sure you use the correct heat sealer, also for purchase at PackagingSupplies.com (with the rest of the plastic shipping bags). This also melts off any excess at the top. Then shrink with the heat gun. If you try to be cheap about it, like a true bootlegger, and use a hair dryer you are going to wind up probably setting the product on fire, and probably your whole house too. The moral of the story is: don’t cut corners and get the actual heat gun that is meant to be used on the actual product. And good luck to you. 