Patent ID: 8336916

Claim:
A method of producing a roll of image-customized postage labels, said method comprising: A) 1) receiving a user input of a user-provided image, user instructions for formatting the user-provided image, and a user-specified postage amount, 2) generating a label-specific machine-readable representation of date-independent, recipient-address-independent, computer-based postage indicia comprising the user-specified postage amount for each image-customized postage label on each sheet to be formatted, and 3) formatting a plurality of sheet images of a plurality of image-customized postage labels, wherein each sheet image of the plurality of image-customized postage labels comprises a first plurality of rows of image-customized postage labels and a second plurality of columns of image-customized postage labels, wherein each image-customized postage label comprises a customized image of the user-provided image according to said user instructions and a set of postage indicia comprising a particular label-specific machine-readable representation of date-independent, recipient-address-independent, computer-based postage indicia comprising the user-specified postage amount; B) rendering each sheet image of the plurality of image-customized postage labels on liner-backed adhesive label stock; C) slicing the liner-backed adhesive label stock in between each column of the second plurality of columns of image-customized postage labels, and D) disposing the second plurality of columns of image-customized postage labels in a roll, wherein mounting said roll on a label applicator device facilitates label application of said image-customized postage labels on to mail items.