Patent ID: 8609212

Claim:
A security label comprising: a carrier film substrate which is formed of a plastics material; a first layer of a non-affixing polymeric coating printed on a coating receiving surface of the carrier film substrate, the non affixing polymeric coating being only relatively weakly adherable to the carrier film substrate, the first layer defining affixing regions providing a first pattern, said affixing regions being substantially devoid of the non-affixing polymeric coating; a second layer of an affixing material comprising one or more affixing polymeric coatings to provide a second pattern on the label, wherein affixing portions of the second layer adhere to the carrier film substrate via the affixing regions defined by the first layer; the security label further comprising a layer of an adhesive material to adhere the label to a support; wherein the carrier film substrate is not subjected to a surface energy raising pre-treatment before coating, such pre-treatment including acid etching, chemical treatment, priming, flame treatment, corona discharge and atmospheric plasma treatment, the coating receiving surface having a wetting tension of between 30 and 40 dynes/cm, the first layer being less adherable to the carrier film substrate than the second layer, so that, in use, when the carrier film substrate is removed from the first layer, the affixing portions of the second layer remain adhered to the carrier film and are disassociated from the adhesive material layer, and those portions of the second layer which are not affixing portions remain associated with the adhesive material layer and are disassociated from the carrier film substrate.