Method of making rolls of record members

Method of making wound rolls of record members for use in a printer, comprising the steps of:

• providing a longitudinally extending web of printable record material, printing machine-readable marks on the web with the marks being arranged in longitudinally spaced groups with intervening mark gap portions between the groups and with the marks within each mark group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, advancing the web in a leading direction, completely severing the web transversely at a selected longitudinal position only within each mark gap portion to provide a leading mark gap portion and a trailing mark gap portion, wherein the step of printing the machine-readable marks occurs before the step of completely severing the web transversely, winding the leading gap mark portion to provide an inner loop, securing each inner loop in loop form, winding the remainder of each web section about its inner loop, each trailing ark gap portion forming an outer loop of the respective wound roll, adhesively securing each trailing mark gap portion in loop form about the remainder of the respective web section, and wherein the transverse severing makes the leading mark gap portions of substantially equal length, with each leading mark gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumferential extent of the respective inner loop, and makes the trailing mark gap portions of substantially equal length, with each trailing mark gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumference of the wound roll.

Method of making wound rolls of record members for use in a printer, comprising the steps of:

• providing a longitudinally extending web of printable record material, preprinting information on the web in accordance with a series of record members lengthwise of the web with preprinted information resulting from the preprinting being arranged in longitudinally spaced groups with intervening preprint gap portions between the groups and with the preprinted information within each group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, advancing the web in a leading direction, completely severing the web transversely at a selected longitudinal position only within each preprint gap portion to provide web sections each having a leading preprint gap portion and a trailing preprint gap portion, wherein the step of preprinting information occurs before the step of completely severing the web transversely, providing a core for each web section, wherein the transverse severing makes the leading preprint gap portions of substantially equal length with each leading preprint gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumference of the respective core and makes the trailing preprint gap portions of substantially equal length with each trailing preprint gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumference of the wound roll, adhesively securing only the leading preprint gap portion of each web section to its respective core, winding the remainder of each web section onto the respective core, each trailing preprint gap portion forming an outer loop of the respective wound roll, and adhesively securing each trailing preprint gap portion in loop form about the remainder of the respective web section.

Method of making wound rolls of record members for use in a printer, comprising the steps of:

• providing a longitudinally extending web of printable record material, preprinting information on the web in accordance with a series of record members lengthwise of the web with preprinted information resulting from the preprinting being arranged in longitudinally spaced groups with intervening preprint gap portions between the groups and with the preprinted information within each group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, advancing the web in a leading direction, completely severing the web transversely at a selected longitudinal position only within each preprint portion to provide web sections each having a leading preprint gap portion and trailing preprint gap portion, wherein the step of preprinting information occurs before the step of completely severing the web transversely, winding each leading preprint gap portion to provide an inner loop, securing each inner loop in loop form, winding the remainder of the web section about its inner loop, each trailing preprint gap portion forming an outer loop of the respective wound roll, adhesively securing each trailing preprint gap portion in loop form about the remainder of the respective web section, and wherein the severing makes the leading preprint gap portions of substantially equal length with each leading preprint gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumferential extent of the respective inner loop and makes the trailing preprint gap portions of substantially equal length with each trailing preprint gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumference of the wound roll.

Method of making wound rolls of record members for use in a printer, comprising the steps of:

• providing a longitudinally extending web of record material having opposite printable sides, preprinting information on one side of the web in accordance with a series of record members extending lengthwise of the web, with repetitively occurring preprinted information resulting from the preprinting being arranged in longitudinally spaced preprint groups with intervening preprint gap portions between the preprint groups and with the preprinted information within each preprint group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, printing machine-readable marks on the other side of the web with the marks being arranged in longitudinally spaced mark groups with intervening mark gap portions between the mark groups and with the marks within each mark group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, wherein each mark is registered with said preprinted information, advancing the web in a leading direction, completely severing the web transversely at a selected longitudinal position only within each preprint and mark gap portion to provide web sections having a leading preprint and mark gap portion and a trailing preprint and mark gap portion, wherein the steps of preprinting information and printing machine-readable marks occur before the step of completely severing the web transversely, providing a core for each web section, wherein the transverse severing makes all the leading preprint and mark gap portions of substantially equal length with each leading preprint and mark gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumference of the respective core and makes the trailing preprint and mark gap portions of substantially equal length, with each trailing preprint and mark gap portion being at least slightly longer than a circumference of the wound roll, adhesively securing only the leading preprint and mark gap portion of each web section to its respective core, winding the remainder of each web section onto the respective core, each trailing preprint and mark gap portion forming an outer loop of the respective wound roll, and adhesively securing each trailing preprint and mark gap portion in loop form about the remainder of the respective web section.

Method of making wound rolls of record members for use in a printer, comprising the steps of:

• providing a longitudinally extending web of record material having opposite printable sides, preprinting information on one side of the web in accordance with a series of record members extending lengthwise of the web, with repetitively occurring preprinted information resulting from the preprinting being arranged in longitudinally spaced preprint groups with intervening preprint gap portions between the preprint groups and with the preprinted information within each preprint group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, printing machine-readable marks on the other side of the web with the marks being arranged in longitudinally spaced mark groups with intervening mark gap portions between the mark groups and with the marks within each mark group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, wherein each mark is registered with said preprinted information, advancing the web in a leading direction, completely severing the web transversely at a selected position only within each preprint and mark gap portion to provide web sections each having a leading preprint and mark gap portion and a trailing preprint and mark gap portion, wherein the steps of preprinting information and printing machine-readable marks occur before the step of completely severing the web transversely, winding each leading preprint and mark gap portion to provide an inner loop, securing each inner loop in loop form, winding the remainder of each web section about its inner loop, each trailing preprint and mark gap portion forming an outer loop of the respective wound roll, adhesively securing each trailing preprint and mark gap portion in loop form about the remainder of the respective web section, and wherein the transverse severing makes the leading preprint and mark gap portions of substantially equal length with each leading preprint and mark gap portion being at least slightly longer than the circumferential extent of the respective inner loop and makes the trailing preprint and mark gap portions of substantially equal length with each trailing preprint and mark gap portion being at least slightly longer than the circumference of the wound roll.

Method of making wound rolls of record members for use in a printer, comprising the steps of:

• providing a longitudinally extending web of record material having opposite printable sides, preprinting information on one side of the web in accordance with a series of record members extending lengthwise of the web, with repetitively occurring preprinted information resulting from the preprinting being arranged in longitudinally spaced preprint groups with intervening preprint gap portions between the preprint groups and with the preprinted information within each preprint group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, printing machine-readable marks on the other side of the web with the marks being arranged in longitudinally spaced mark groups with intervening mark gap portions between the mark groups and with the marks within each mark group occurring at equally spaced apart intervals, wherein each mark is registered with said preprinted information, advancing the web in a leading direction, completely severing the web transversely at a selected longitudinal position only within each preprint and mark gap portion to provide web sections with trailing preprint and mark gap portions, wherein the steps of preprinting information and printing machine-readable marks occur before the step of completely severing the web transversely, winding the web section to form a wound roll, each trailing preprint and mark gap portion forming an outer loop of the respective wound roll, and adhesively securing each trailing preprint and mark gap portion in loop form about the remainder of the respective web section.