Talk:Cellophane tape

Cellophane tape and pressure-sensitive tape
Cellophane tape is a common term. Cellophane tape is a little old-fashioned because it turns yellow and falls off with age, so the cellophane has been mostly replaced with other transparent plastic materials. Some people use the old term to refer to tape of the new material, similarly to calling an electrical home refrigerator an "icebox". Actual cellophane tape is available in some stores, often for lesser price than the newer non-yellowing transparent tapes. (I feel embarrassed for people who might accidentally buy actual cellophane tape, and puzzlement or disappointment for people who would deliberately buy cellophane tape.)

Somehow, cellophane tape had no article and little or no mention. Hence the redirect from here (Cellophane tape) to Pressure-sensitive tape. [Pressure-sensitive tape] links to two brands of "transparent office tape" (and mentions several more) that are and/or originally were made of cellophane. (Now it also directly mentions cellophane.)

Most kinds of tape are adhesive tapes, and most kinds of adhesive tape are pressure-sensitive tapes. (The other kinds of "tape" are barricade tape, flagging tape, audio video & data recording tape, pipe thread tape, measuring tape, bubble gum, and a variation on barbed wire.) (Cellophane and cellulose are hardly suitable for the other uses.) "Tape" implies "pressure-sensitive [adhesive] tape". A medal for anyone who finds "cellophane tape" or even "transparent tape" that is not adhesive, or is gummed or heat-activated (i.e., is not pressure-sensitive). A roll of non-adhesive cellophane "tape" would be called "cellophane ribbon" (I found some product with that name; it's decorative) or "cellophane film" (I found some; it comes in wide rolls). I Googled "cellophane tape" to see what "cellophane tape" means. - A876 (talk) 22:25, 26 April 2019 (UTC)