DuraLabel Polyolefin Shrink Tube Wire Labels

The DuraLabel Pro can print polyolefin shrink tubes up to one inch in diameter.

Shrink tubes are a tube shaped label that, after printing, is slipped over the end of a wire or cable. They are then heated which will cause them to shrink into a tight fit on the wire. Shrink tubes must be applied before a wire is terminated.

Shrink tubes provide a durable, long-lasting label for wires and cables.

The table below shows the technical information for various size shrink tubes:

Shrink Tube Specifications

What Do The Above Terms Mean?

Minimum Expanded ID
The minimum ID of the tubing before it is shrunk.

Maximum Recovered ID
The final maximum ID of the tubing after it has been fully shrunk. A maximum value is specified to ensure that the tubing will have a tight fit on the wire being labeled.

Recovered
A recovered tube is one that has been shrunk.

Recovered Wall Thickness
This is the final thickness of the tubing wall after it has been shrunk (recovered). After recovery, the tubing wall thickness will slightly increase. The increase can not be exactly determined, so the wall thickness will be specified with as +/- value.

What size shrink tube do I need?
Use tubing that is 20% larger than the O.D. of the wire or cable.

DuraLabel shrink tube has a 3:1 shrink ration. That means that a shrink tube with an original ID of 3/4" will shrink about 67% to an ID of 1/4". Thus if you have a wire with an O.D. of .24 inches, a 3/4" shrink tube may not have a tight fit after being fully recovered. However, it will have a tight fit on a wire of 0.25 inches or larger.

Information and prices for shrink tube supplies for the DuraLabel Pro Label Printer are available online at: DuraLabel Supply Information

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Shrink tube supplies typically ship the same day we receive your order. You can have the wire labels you need tomorrow morning!