Combined receipt and label roll having optimal adhesive patch patterns and a method of manuafacturing thereof

A combined receipt and label comprising:

• a substrate having a front side and a back side opposite the front side;
• a thermally-sensitive coating disposed on the front side of the substrate;
• and
• a water-based microsphere adhesive disposed on the back side of the substrate and comprising at least four separate adhesive patches, wherein (i) each one of four quadrants on the back side of the substrate has positioned therein at least some adhesive from the at least four adhesive patches, and (ii) size of one of the at least four adhesive patches is a base size from which size of each of remaining adhesive patches of the at least four adhesive patches is calculated.

A method of manufacturing a combined receipt and label based upon a first predetermined adhesive patch size, the method comprising:

• electronically by a processor, calculating a second predetermined adhesive patch size based upon the first predetermined adhesive patch size;
• applying a first set of at least two water-based microsphere adhesive patches having the first predetermined adhesive patch size on the back side of the label;
• applying a second set of at least two water-based microsphere adhesive patches having the second predetermined adhesive patch size on the back side of the label;
• and
• aligning adhesive patches of the first and second sets of adhesive patches relative to each other on the back side of the label such that peel force of the label is increased without having to increase either viscosity or coat weight of the first and second sets of adhesive patches.