Talk:Magic Tape

Initial use

I am a Brazilian IP lawyer working on the Magic Tape trademark. I noticed that in the USPTO database, the first use in commerce in dated 30.08.1965, and not in 1961 as you state. See http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=gt3b7d.2.1

(from my talk page Rich Farmbrough, 22:34 15 February 2008 (GMT).)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Giftwrap tape

I came to this page hoping that it could shed some light on the differences between Scotch Magic Tape and Scotch Giftwrap Tape. The article's sole footnote (provided without citation) suggests that Giftwrap Tape is merely a less visible form of Magic Tape. If that was the only difference, why would Scotch not have merely just replaced Magic Tape with the newer design? Is the finish more costly to produce? (Like maybe they mist it with some solvent or even apply spray-on matte finish prior to curing.)

The Scotch website provided no clues other than to say that it has a "unique satin finish".

I can certainly see why, for gift-wrapping applications, it wouldn't need the strength or longevity required for more general applications, but I'm just curious exactly what the physical differences are. How did they reduce the visibility? By using a thinner, less versatile adhesive coating (because it only has to stick to narrow range of moderately smooth paper surfaces)? Does the finish reduce tear resistance? Is the backing thinner or made of a weaker material? Is the adhesive less persistent, or perhaps more or less repositionable? Is it more or less prone to yellowing? Or is it perhaps the same tape merely marketed in different packaging? Starling2001 (talk) 20:10, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

I was surprised to see Magic Tape proposed as popular for gift wrap in the first place - I suspect "popular" here means "this is what I use it for" in the eyes of one editor - in the absence of a ref I'd say snip that since in my experience it stinks at it. What makes it so poor? It shows up too much. It is advertised as almost "invisible" on paper but perhaps "camouflaged" on white or off-white paper is a better description since the white colouring is still present, just less obvious on a white background. Try it on a darkly coloured sugar paper and it screams at you.

In my experience a good quality generic sellotape works better for giftwrap because of the greater clarity - it doesn't introduce additional colour. What you do see there though is the gloss finish to such tapes. Without having used the giftwrap tape I would imagine that is what the giftwrap tape addresses - that "unique satin finish" more closely matches the satin or semi-matte finish on most modern wrapping papers which is in contrast to the matte finish of general stationery items. 3142 (talk) 22:02, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Merge

I think this article should be merged with Scotch Tape because it has a readable prose length which is less than 1 kB and the subject is just a type of Scotch Tape. -KAP03 (talk) 00:14, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Agree. Some individual brands, like Coca-Cola Cherry or Diet Coke, might warrant an individual page, but this is not one of them. The page for Mountain Dew contains plenty of discussion about the varieties, but they all belong on the same page.Ich (talk) 14:24, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Agree. This topic is so narrow that it does not merit an article of its own. It does however deserve a mention on the Scotch Tape article. 203.151.232.90 (talk) 09:56, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Agreed – this article contains practically no noteworthy information. The bits of content that are there suffer from verifiability and NPOV issues. BegbertBiggs (talk) 15:40, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

So why has this article now been redirected but not merged? Magic tape is a distinguishable product within 3M's Scotch tape range, with specific features (the invisible matte surface) and branding. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:11, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Now merged (with minimal editing) rather than redirected. Klbrain (talk) 21:26, 6 August 2018 (UTC)