GARMENT LABELING SYSTEM, EQUIPMENT AND METHOD AND ELASTOMERIC LABEL FOR USE THEREWITH

摘要

A demand actuated system for automatically feeding (14), printing (10), cutting (42) and applying a garment label composed of a strip of two-layer laminated thermoplastic, elastomeric, preferably polyurethane, film (15) includes a printer (10) and a bonder (61) arranged for conjoint operation. The printer prints computer controlled images, by means of a thermal ink transfer ribbon (23), directly onto a layer of higher melting point resin (15) and the bonder (61) fusion bonds the other layer, of lower melting point resin, to the garment piece substantially without distortion of the imprinted image. A special two-layer thermoplastic elastomeric label film (15) is provided for use in the system.