Label paper waste removing method and apparatus

摘要

A waste removing method is provided that is capable of easily carrying out a waste removing operation to peel a label sheet waste off a base sheet. In the method, a label sheet 4b of label paper 4 being conveyed along a path of label paper conveyance 1 is formed with a cut line 4h for peeling-off; an upstream side portion 4i of label sheet bor-dered and starting with the cut line 4h is peeled off a base sheet 4a, and the portion of label sheet 4b peeled off is carried to and wound onto a waste take-up member 20 whereby winding the peeled-off portion of label sheet 4b onto the waste take-up member 20 causes a label sheet waste 4g of succeeding label paper 4 to be peeled off the base sheet 4a and taken up onto the waste take-up member. The waste removing operation in which to peel the label sheet waste 4g off the base sheet 4a can be carried out automatically and easily without the need of manual operations.