STOW, Ohio, September 2026 – Mactac®, a leading manufacturer of pressure-sensitive adhesive materials, announces the launch of Optiscan® E, a new thermal transfer label construction engineered to help converters and end users improve productivity, reduce material consumption, and lower total operating costs. The latest addition to Mactac’s thermal transfer portfolio, Optiscan E is a downgauged construction specifically developed for high-volume, cost-sensitive thermal transfer label applications.

Launching alongside Optiscan E is SmartTac™, Mactac’s new general-purpose permanent acrylic adhesive.Developed to support high-speed converting operations, SmartTac provides dependable adhesion across a wide range of applications, making it an ideal adhesive platform for Optiscan E products.

Optiscan E combines a thinner 36# thermal transfer facestock, SmartTac adhesive, and a downgauged liner available in either 2.1 mil SCK or Mactac’s Bloom hi.mpact® 1.6 mil glassine constructions. The result is a high-performance label solution that delivers more labels per roll, while improving converting performance. Optiscan E is ideal for a wide range of high-volume labeling applications, including logistics, shipping, warehousing, inventory management, retail, and general identification applications.

"Today's converters are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency, control costs, and support sustainability objectives, without compromising label performance," said Donna Lubin, Senior Product Manager for Mactac’s Roll Label Variable Information Products. "Optiscan E was developed to address all of these challenges at once by delivering the material saving and yield benefits of a thinner construction, while avoiding the converting challenges often associated with downgauged products."

The Optiscan E name reflects the core value it drives:

• Efficiency Gains: A thinner, optimized construction enables more labels per roll, reducing roll changeovers, increasing production uptime, improving pallet utilization, and minimizing warehouse storage requirements.

• Economic Benefits: Designed to improve operational efficiencies, Optiscan E delivers savings at multiple points during production that results in a reduction in total delivered cost.

• Environmental Impact: By using less material, Optiscan E helps reduce waste, packaging consumption, and transportation-related environmental impacts throughout the supply chain.

• Excellent Convertibility: Optiscan E is engineered to deliver reliable converting performance, including high-speed printing and converting, consistent die-cutting, and clean matrix stripping. Its optimized construction allows converters to realize the benefits of downgauging while maintaining productivity, efficiency, and quality.

Prior to commercialization, Optiscan E was validated through converter trials conducted with multiple Mactac industry partners. Testing demonstrated strong converting performance at line speeds up to 500 feet per minute, reliable die cutting and matrix stripping, successful flood coating, and high-quality barcode printing results.

Optiscan E is available in two constructions:

• TTE3532: Optiscan E 36# facestock with SmartTac adhesive and 2.1 mil SCK liner

• TTE3552: Optiscan E 36# facestock with SmartTac adhesive and 1.6 mil Bloom hi.mpact glassine liner

For more information on Optiscan E, SmartTac, and Mactac's entire portfolio of labeling solutions call 800-255-9733, email [email protected], or visit www.mactac.com/rolllabel.