Patent ID: 8904686

Claim:
A strip of a plurality of thermal printer processible wristband/label assemblies, said wristband/label assemblies being joined at their ends to adjacent wristband/label assemblies to form the strip with a line of weakness separating adjacent assemblies, each of said wristband/label assemblies comprising: two areas, a wristband area comprising a full length wristband with its longest dimension extending between said adjoining wristband/label assemblies and comprising substantially the entirety of the wristband area, and a label area comprising a plurality of labels extending substantially the full length of the wristband/label assembly, wherein at least some of the label areas have weakness points to facilitate the separation of one or more labels from said label area, wherein at least some of said weakness points comprise a pair of substantially aligned nicks positioned along the upper and lower border of its associated label area to facilitate tearing of the label area between a pair of nicks to thereby variably size a label, and a line of weakness extending between said adjoining wristband/label assembly ends and separating said wristband area from said label area to facilitate their ready separation from each other, each of said wristband/label assemblies being substantially rectangular shaped and oriented to be fed into said thermal printer from its shortest dimension to thereby maximize the size of each wristband/label assembly processible in a continuous manner by said thermal printer.