Patent ID: 7699002

Claim:
A printed business card forming method, comprising: sheet-feeding a business card sheet into a printer or copier; the business card sheet including: a paper sheet having a front side and a back side; a polymer carrier layer attached directly to the back side in a manner so as to prevent separation therefrom; and a grid of cut lines through the paper sheet but not through the business card sheet to form at least portions of perimeters of a plurality of business cards; the sheet-feeding including the printer or copier printing desired indicia on the front side or on an ink jet or laser receptive coating on the front side; after the printing, folding the business card sheet on one of the cut lines with a single folding action so that the polymer carrier layer due to stress and elongation properties thereof snap breaks through the polymer carrier layer and along the one of the cut lines to form a separate business card sheet portion which includes a first edge of a printed business card; the printed business card having at least a portion of the desired indicia thereon and including a portion of the paper sheet and a portion of the polymer carrier layer attached directly to the portion of the paper sheet in a manner so as to prevent separation therefrom; after the folding, folding the separate business card sheet portion or a snap-broken portion thereof on another one of the cut lines with a single folding action so that the polymer carrier layer portion of the separate business card sheet portion or the snap-broken portion thereof, due to the stress and elongation properties, snap breaks along the another one of the cut lines to form a smaller separate business card sheet portion which includes a second edge of the printed business card which is perpendicular to the first edge; and the another one of the cut lines being perpendicular to the one of cut lines.