Patent ID: 6025051
Filing Date: 2000-02-15
Classification: B41D,B41K,G09F,Y10T

Abstract:
In a plate-making strip having two long sides and two short sides and a center, the short sides extending between, and being shorter than, the long sides, said plate-making strip including a base sheet and an adhesive sheet laminated on said base sheet,the improvement wherein said adhesive sheet has a single label portion for being printed with an image, said single label portion being spaced generally equidistant from the two long sides and generally equidistant from the two short sides, said single label portion being defined by a cutting line formed in said adhesive sheet, the cutting line defining an enclosed area,said strip having at least one through hole for being detected by a sensor, at a location spaced from a corresponding one of said two short sides by a predetermined distance, said at least one through hole being outside said label portion,wherein said at least one through hole consists of a single pair of holes, wherein each hole of said single pair of holes is offset from a center line parallel to, and equidistant from, said two long sides of said plate-making strip, wherein an axis passing through the center of said plate-making strip and forming an acute angle with said center line, passes through each hole of said pair of through holes, and wherein said center is equidistant from each hole of said pair of through holes.