Apparatus and method for cutting facestock

A kit for preparing a cutting surface on a cutting roller in a facestock cutting apparatus, the kit comprising:

• one or more equalizer rollers, each comprising an equalizing surface having a hardness which is greater than or equal to a hardness of the cutting surface, such that when the equalizer roller is positioned adjacent the cutting roller and the cutting roller is rotated against the equalizer roller, the equalizer surface equalizes the cutting surface;
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• two or more anvil rollers which are configured to be positionally interchangeable with the one or more equalizer rollers and with each other, the anvil rollers receiving a facestock on a liner and when in use in the cutting facestock apparatus and having sequentially differing diameters with respect to one another, such that, in response to wear on the cutting surface and a resulting increase in a facestock cutting space between the anvil roller and the cutting surface, the anvil rollers allow for sequential replacement by a subsequent anvil roller in order of sequentially increasing size;
• wherein one of the one or more equalizer rollers has a radius at the equalizing surface that exceeds a radius of one of the two or more anvil rollers by a difference, such that the one equalizer roller is adapted to modify the cutting surface, thereby resulting in the facestock cutting space between the one anvil roller and the cutting surface.

An apparatus for cutting a facestock on a liner, the apparatus comprising:

• an anvil roller receiver for interchangeably receiving a single roller selected from an equalizer roller and one or more anvil rollers;
• a cutting roller under a force for cutting the facestock, when the selected roller positioned in the anvil roller receiver is an anvil roller, between the cutting roller and the selected roller while the selected roller is receiving the facestock on the liner;
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• wherein the equalizer roller is for equalizing a cutting surface of the cutting roller, the equalizer roller having an equalizing surface having a hardness at least as hard as a hardness of the cutting surface and wherein, when the selected roller positioned in the anvil roller receiver is the equalizer roller, rotating the cutting roller against the equalizer roller causes the cutting surface to be equalized by the equalizing surface;
• wherein the equalizer roller has a radius at the equalizing surface that exceeds a radius of the anvil roller by a difference, such that the equalizer roller is adapted to modify the cutting surface, thereby resulting in a facestock cutting space between the anvil roller and the cutting surface.