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US 6,331,018 B1Granted
Label sheet
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsJoseph D. Roth, Wayne D. Finster
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Abstract
A liner for a label sheet has a printed image under the release layer and an opaque ink receptive coating on the opposite side thereof with a printed image thereon. Label sheets with this liner further include an overlay having at least one label cut therethrough which is aligned with the release layer of the liner and an adhesive layer which bonds the overlay and liner. The label sheet can be part of a form/label combination where the overlay includes the portion that is not adhered to the liner.
Claims8
A label sheet comprising
- a) an overlay having at least one label cut therethrough, said overlay having a front side capable of receiving print and a rear side with a high adhesion surface capable of having an adhesive bonded thereto,
- b) a liner comprising
- i) a front side having a high adhesion surface capable of having an adhesive bonded thereto and a printed image positioned on a portion thereof which is covered low adhesion surface, and
- ii) a backside with both an opaque ink receptive coating and a printed image positioned thereon, wherein the opaque ink receptive coating is aligned with the printed image positioned on the front side of said liner and the printed image on the back side of said liner is positioned on said opaque ink receptive coating, and
- an adhesive layer which bonds the rear side of said overlay to the front side of said liner, wherein the liner and overlay are aligned such that the labels cut in the overlay overlap the release layer on the front side of said liner.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.