Interpret the archived FLEXcon FLEXmark V 200 sheet, including its film-only construction, print choices, attachment gaps, storage, and qualification. This resource is for manufacturers evaluating custom nameplates, labels, overlays, or related identification components. Use it to prepare your project questions, then talk with our team about the requirements that apply to your part.
FLEXcon FLEXmark V 200 appears in the legacy material library as a one-page Product Construction Sheet dated July 3, 2007. The archived sheet identifies a rigid, white, opaque polyvinyl chloride film and, importantly, labels the construction “NO PS.” In other words, the source is describing free film rather than a finished pressure-sensitive label stock. That distinction should control how a project is evaluated.
This guide treats the old document as a set of blanks that must be completed before V 200—or a current successor—can become a usable nameplate, overlay, decal, or label. The values in the supplier sheet are dated guidance, based on limited production history, and expressly excluded from specification use. Confirm current product identity, availability, construction, regulatory status, technical data, and processing instructions with FLEXcon. U.S. Nameplate does not warrant the supplier’s archived figures or the performance of an undefined finished stack.
The July 2007 sheet describes 2.4-mil (61-micron) rigid white opaque PVC without pressure-sensitive adhesive. A buyer may see a familiar film name and assume it arrives ready to peel and apply. The “NO PS” designation says otherwise. Attachment has to be designed separately, whether by adding adhesive, mechanically capturing the film, laminating it into another construction, or using it as an intermediate printed layer.
Start with the finished function. A control panel overlay may need a window, embossed key area, spacer, and attachment system. A custom durable decal normally needs a defined adhesive and release liner. A rigid insert may need no pressure-sensitive layer at all. Material selection should follow the intended assembly, not precede it.
If the free film will be adhesive-coated or laminated to transfer tape, the attachment layer becomes its own engineered component. Define substrate, coating, surface energy, texture, curvature, contamination, temperature, chemical contact, desired permanence, and removal behavior. The 2007 V 200 sheet provides none of those adhesive details.
When a layered solution is appropriate, coordinate the attachment step through laminating. The laminate process must preserve flatness, opacity, print quality, and dimensional registration while avoiding bubbles, wrinkles, and adhesive contamination.
The archived sheet reports a minimum optical-density value and a minimum 60-degree gloss figure, but it also states that physical data are guidance only. White shade, hiding, gloss, and surface smoothness can affect ink color and whether a dark substrate shows through. A drawing that merely calls for “white” leaves room for visible variation between lots or substitutes.
Approve a physical standard under controlled lighting. Compare the unprinted film, printed colors, and installed part over every allowed substrate. If an opaque white film is being used to imitate the look of a rigid plate, compare it honestly with metal nameplates. Appearance, stiffness, edge profile, marking method, and attachment may drive different choices.
The one-page V 200 construction sheet gives no print-ink compatibility table. It does not identify solvent, water-based, UV, digital, or thermal-transfer systems. Printability must therefore be demonstrated with the current material and intended chemistry rather than borrowed from another FLEXcon product.
Ink can change the way a thin film bends and how cleanly it cuts. An approved print sample should therefore represent the final stack, not a bare film coupon.
The historical sheet reports 2.4-mil film thickness with a plus-or-minus ten-percent figure and a dimensional-stability result from a high-temperature test. It says the data came from three or fewer production runs because of the custom nature of the product. That caveat is unusually important: the sheet itself warns against treating the numbers as a broad statistical specification.
Finished dimensions depend on printing, heat, tension, adhesive lamination, die cutting, and any forming operation. Develop tolerances from a process study using current stock. Coordinate perimeters, windows, holes, and registration through die and digital cutting. If key domes, ribs, or formed features are needed, a separate embossing and forming trial must establish geometry and recovery.
The 2007 source lists six months of storage stability for free film at 70°F (21°C) and 50 percent relative humidity. It separately lists two years for adhesive-coated film under the same stated environment. Those statements refer to different constructions. Adding an adhesive does not automatically grant the old two-year period; the chosen adhesive, liner, coating date, supplier instructions, and storage traceability all matter.
Receiving records should capture product code, lot, date, document revision, packaging, and storage history. Once material is printed or laminated, establish a new work-in-process control based on current component guidance. Avoid carrying an old free-film rule forward to converted labels without evidence.
The archived sheet mentions an expected two-year exterior life for adhesive-coated film in vertical exposure in mid-continental North America. That phrase combines an undefined adhesive-coated construction, one orientation, and a broad climate description. It does not promise two years for free film, a printed graphic, a horizontal surface, a different region, or a complete U.S. Nameplate part.
Define UV, heat, cold, moisture, cleaning, chemicals, abrasion, flexing, orientation, and required appearance. Then test the printed and attached assembly. If the part carries instructions or warnings, include legibility and contrast in the qualification through warning-label review. If it is one of several related identifiers, organize part numbers and revisions through label sets.
A useful request includes current film documentation, finished purpose, artwork, dimensions, quantity, white and gloss standards, print route, substrate, adhesive need, liner, windows or formed areas, exposure, cleaning, installation, and replacement expectations. Supply representative surfaces and define which test results are required before production. Link the approved material, attachment, and sample to applicable quality standards.
Turn those inputs into a revision-controlled bill of materials rather than identifying the construction only as “V 200.” The record should distinguish the facestock, any ink system, protective layer, attachment method, liner, and packaging. It should also identify the approved surface-preparation method and the sample or report that supports release. That discipline keeps a film trade name from standing in for an entire converted part.
The most important fact in the old FLEXmark V 200 sheet is not a temperature or strength value. It is the missing pressure-sensitive layer. Once that gap is acknowledged, the project team can design printing, attachment, converting, and qualification as one finished construction. To review a current white opaque film assembly, request a consultation with the latest supplier data and the actual installation substrate.
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