Double-sided printable label system
AssigneePremier Print & Services Group, Inc.
InventorBruce A. Raming
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Abstract
A duplex label includes a label stock presenting a label top and a label bottom. The label top is printable to receive exposed indicia that is visible when the label is adhered to the substrate. The label stock includes multiple label plies, each having opposite top and bottom surfaces. The label also includes adhesive and an area of unactivated, selectively activatable print coating preapplied to define, respectively, an adhesive portion of the label bottom and a printable portion of the label bottom. The adhesive portion is configured to adhesively engage the substrate. The printable portion is operable to receive hidden indicia when the print coating is activated, with the hidden indicia being concealed cooperatively by the label stock and substrate until the label is at least partly removed.
Claims33
A duplex label configured to be adhered to a substrate, said duplex label comprising:
- a label stock presenting a label top and a label bottom,
- said label top being printable to receive exposed indicia that is visible when the label is adhered to the substrate,
- said label stock including multiple label plies, each having opposite top and bottom surfaces, with the bottom surface of one of the plies presenting the label bottom;
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- a pattern of adhesive and an area of unactivated, selectively activatable print coating preapplied to the bottom surface of said one of the plies so as to define, respectively, an adhesive portion of the label bottom and a printable portion of the label bottom,
- said adhesive portion being configured to adhesively engage the substrate,
- said printable portion being operable to receive hidden indicia when the print coating is activated, with the hidden indicia being concealed cooperatively by the label stock and substrate until the label is at least partly removed,
- said adhesive portion and said printable portion being nonoverlapping.
A duplex label configured to be adhered to a substrate, said duplex label comprising:
- a label stock presenting a label top and a label bottom,
- said label top being printable to receive exposed indicia that is visible when the label is adhered to the substrate,
- said label stock including multiple label plies, each having opposite top and bottom surfaces,
- said label bottom being cooperatively formed by the bottom surfaces of at least a first one of the plies and a second one of the plies;
- adhesive preapplied to the bottom surface of the second one of the plies so as to define an adhesive portion of the label bottom,
- said adhesive portion being configured to adhesively engage the substrate;
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- an area of unactivated, selectively activatable print coating preapplied to the bottom surface of the first one of the plies so as to define a printable portion of the label bottom,
- said printable portion being operable to receive hidden indicia when the print coating is activated, with the hidden indicia being concealed cooperatively by the label stock and substrate until the label is at least partly removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.