Enhanced laser label assemblies

摘要

An enhanced label assembly (10) for use in laser or other printers has a facestock sheet (12) releasably adhered to backing sheet (14) with pressure-sensitive adhesive (16). The facestock sheet (12) has labels (18) die cut therein. The label assembly (10) has a relatively high Taber stiffness which allows passage of the label assembly (10) through a printer while removing or "scrubbing" accumulated pressure-sensitive adhesive (16) off components of the printer. The label assembly (10) has a coefficient of friction sufficiently great so as to prevent slippage between rollers (20) of printers (24) and the label assembly (10), thereby preventing jamming and misprinting. This is generally achieved by cutting the label assembly (10) in the cross direction (A) of the roll stock. Furthermore, the pressure-sensitive adhesive (16) is reduced in thickness at leading and trailing edges of the label assembly (10) so as to reduce adhesive contamination in printers.