Patent ID: 6214153
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: B42D,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of producing, and ultimately handling, a business form using a web or sheet of imagable material having a face and a back, and a clean release material having as consecutive layers a pressure-sensitive adhesive, a transparent plastic, a dry release material, and a baseliner, comprising:(a) spot coating silicone release material on the back of the web or sheet in a first area significantly less than the area of a business form to be formed;(b) applying the clean release material to the back of the web or sheet in a second area, larger than the first area, and over and encompassing at least a significant amount of the first area, so that the adhesive adheres to the back of the web or sheet; then(c) imaging variable indicia on at least part of the face of the web or sheet opposite the second area on the back of the web or sheet, forming a third, imaged, area; and(d) die cutting the web or sheet from the face thereof to form first and second generally equally sized adjacent cards, a first imaged face card having the third, imaged, area thereon and having a fourth area smaller than about one-half the second area, and a second card including at least part of the first area, and having a fifth area also smaller than about one-half the second area, the die cutting extending substantially completely through the adhesive and transparent plastic of the clean release material, but not the baseliner, and the die cutting including a substantially common die cut between the first and second cards along an edge of each.