Abstract:
Label media having one of more labels with multiple adhesives having different adhesion characteristics and at least one adhesive free zone for use in an electrophotographic printer.
Abstract:
Provided is a direct thermal media containing a regular repeating pattern of color-forming thermally-imageable stripes printed parallel to the print head element line and a system for using such direct thermal media in color direct thermal printers including an optical registration system optimized for use with this media and an image processing unit that monitors the position of the stripe pattern relative to the print head and synchronizes the start of the printing process. This direct thermal media together with the optical registration system and image processing unit comprise an operative system in that the design of the thermal media, the optical registration system and image processing unit used to control printing are optimized for use with each other. This system may be utilized, for example, in color thermal printers for documents, receipts, tags, tickets or labels.
Abstract:
A piece of printing stock for making, in combination with a badge base, an information badge, includes a face sheet and a liner. The face sheet includes a layer of adhesive, with the liner releasably adhered to the layer of adhesive. The face sheet also includes a badge label, for example, as defined by a weakening line cut into the face sheet. In addition, the liner includes a badge liner, for example, as defined therein by a weakening line cut into the liner. The badge liner is smaller in dimensions than the badge label and is positioned with respect to the badge label such that when the badge label is removed from the face sheet, the badge liner is removed from the liner and remains adhered to the badge label.
Abstract:
One reading sensor is used to read identification mark information, to decide whether a product is genuine.Identification marks each having sensitivity adjustment for the reading sensor and specific mark information are printed on a sheet of release coated paper. The sensitivity adjustment for the reading sensor is performed by utilizing information on a density acquired by reading the identification mark. By combining pieces of density information on a plurality of marks that constitutes the identification mark, mark information is generated. This mark information is checked against saved mark information. In this case, by utilizing the identification mark in which the plurality of identical marks are sequentially shifted in a traveling direction, even a reading sensor constituted of a single light-emitting element and a single photoreceptor element can acquire the mark information on the identification marks. The read mark information and the mark information contained in barcode information are checked against each other and, if they agree, it is decided that the product is genuine and a result of the decision is displayed.
Abstract:
A document sheet with a removably attached object thereon having simplified inexpensive construction and having a reduced cross-sectional thickness enabling use of the sheet in printers without the risk of jamming the printer. The document sheet also allows both sides of the object to be printed prior to its removal from the sheet with preferably at least 60% of the rear surface being accessible for printing through the use of an indentation window.
Abstract:
Composite pressure sensitive label sheets will print in hot laser printers without curling if they comprise at least three layers: A. at least one base layer having a pressure sensitive adhesive on the bottom face, B. a printable surface layer on top of the base layer or layers, and C. a strippable protective backing on the pressure sensitive adhesive coated bottom face on the base layer or layers and if the thermal expansion or contraction characteristics of the printable layer B and the protective backing C are the same or substantially the same.
Abstract:
A method of forming a sheet of material with indicia thereon comprises applying indicia to the sheet by an electrostatic copying process in which a toner powder is deposited on the sheet and is heated to cause it to fuse. The sheet of material comprises a flexible support layer that is provided with a porous coating of a latent curable material, preferably in particulate and/or filamentary form and especially one based on an epoxy material.It has been found that the indicia are more indelible than those formed on other surfaces by the same process even though the fused toner is not absorbed by the curable material.
Abstract:
A label for use on a beverage container. The label consists of a coaster attached to the conventional label or directly to the container by adhesive. In the preferred embodiment an edge or a corner of the label has no adhesive to accommodate easy peeling of the coaster from the container. The adhesive allows for firm attachment of the label to the container or another label while at the same time retains stickiness to flatly adhere to the protected surface.
Abstract:
A method of preparing continuous label paper from a continuous paper consisting of a label sheet coated with an adhesive on the back side thereof and a support sheet detachably adhered to the back side of the label sheet and which sheets are wider than a finished width of the continuous label paper. The steps include forming a plurality of transfer holes at equal intervals along both lateral edges of the finished width of at least the supporting sheet of the continuous paper, forming slits along the side portions of the supporting sheet at positions corresponding to the finished width of the continuous label paper to define excess width portions laterally outwardly of the slits, cutting cut lines in the label sheet to form label pieces in the label sheet spaced at intervals therealong, cutting edge lines in the label sheet adjacent lateral edge portions thereof at positions where the edge lines do not overlie portions of the support sheet corresponding to transfer holes, and which edge lines have an irregular shape defining projections extending closer to the lateral edges of the finished width of the supporting sheet than the positions of the transfer holes, thereby defining unnecessary label sheet portions laterally outwardly of the edge lines, and after the edge line cutting step and the slit forming step, simultaneously removing the excess width portions and the unnecessary label sheet portions from the supporting sheet.
Abstract:
A method of producing correspondence wherein stationery is equipped at a suitable location with a transparent pressure sensitive adhesive-backed label for coincidental typing with the stationery and which is removable thereafter for application to a blank envelope.