Patent ID: 8043463

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a printable label laminate without a release layer, the laminate comprising a first label material layer and a second label material layer, each label material layer having a face side and a back side, the method comprising: forming adhesive areas directly on a surface of an intended label material layer and leaving untreated adhesive-free areas on the surface, each adhesive area comprising a group of three-dimensional adhesive dots by a screening method so that a pattern is formed in which the adhesive areas and non-adhesive areas alternate on the face side of the first label material layer and on the face side of the second label material layer; aligning the adhesive areas on the first label material layer with the non-adhesive areas on the second label material layer and aligning the non-adhesive areas on the first label material layer with the adhesive areas on the second label material layer; and attaching the face sides of two label material layers to each other so that the adhesive areas on the first label material layer are attached directly to the non-adhesive areas on the second material layer and the non-adhesive areas on the first label material layer are attached directly to the adhesive areas on the second material layer, wherein an area of the adhesive dots that contacts the material layer on which the adhesive dots are formed is larger than an area of the dots that contacts the non-adhesive areas on the other material layer to which the dots are attached, and wherein the non-adhesive areas having surface energy, which is at least 25 dynes.