Business card sheet construction and methods of making and using same

Abstract

Ultraremovable adhesive is applied to a paper sheet to form therewith a liner sheet, and the liner sheet is laminated to a cardstock sheet to form a laminate cardstock. The cardstock sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the liner sheet, to form cardstock cut lines that define at least in part perimeters of business cards (or other printable media). The outer face of the liner sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the cardstock sheet, to form liner sheet strips on a back side of the cardstock sheet. Some of the strips define cover strips covering some of the cardstock cut lines, and others of the strips define waste strips. The waste strips are then matrix removed from the back of the cardstock sheet. According to a preferred (dry laminate) embodiment the only liner sheet die cut is parallel to the leading edge of the sheet and forms a narrow leading edge liner strip which is removed. The resulting business card sheet construction is then fed through a printer or copier by the user and the desired indicia printed on the front sides of the business cards, while the cover strips hold the cards together as a unit sheet construction. After this printing operation, the printed cards are easily peeled off of the cover strips, ready for use. By designing the sheet construction to form the printed media with different sizes and shapes and by including optional scored fold lines, and/or additional flexibility cut lines or flexibility perforation lines, media aside from business cards, such as post cards and greeting cards, can be constructed.

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       100 . A printable business card sheet, comprising:
 a laminate sheet construction including a facestock sheet construction and a continuous sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;   the facestock sheet construction including a facestock sheet;   the facestock sheet being a cardstock sheet;   facestock continuous through-cut lines through the facestock sheet construction but not through-cut through the continuous sheet construction;   the through-cut lines defining at least in part perimeter edges of printable business cards and a matrix waste portion around the printable business cards;   the laminate sheet construction being sized, constructed and capable of being sheet-fed through a printer or copier for a sheet-fed printing operation on the printable business cards;   areas of the continuous sheet construction being positioned over back sides of all of the through-cut lines and thereby the continuous sheet construction is structurally capable of holding the printable business cards and the matrix waste portion together during the printing operation;   a top surface of the facestock sheet construction being constructed and adapted to receive indicia printed on the top surface during the printing operation;   the continuous sheet construction and the through-cut lines being constructed and adapted to allow the business cards to be removed and separated from the continuous sheet construction and from the matrix waste portion after the printing operation into individual printed business cards whose back side surfaces are non-tacky; and the printable business cards.   
   
   
       101 . A method of forming a printable media sheet construction, comprising:
 a) cutting a facestock sheet of a sheet construction which includes a liner sheet and the facestock sheet, without cutting through the liner sheet to form perimeters of printable media;   (b) cutting the liner sheet without cutting the facestock sheet to form a plurality of spaced liner strips on the facestock sheet;   (c) after (b), removing alternating ones of the liner strips from off of the facestock sheet; and   (d) after (c), sheeting the sheet construction into a plurality of sheets, each of the sheets including a plurality of the printable media and a plurality of the liner strips.   
   
   
       102 . A printed business card forming method, comprising:
 sheet-feeding a printable business card sheet into a printer or copier from a stack of printable business card sheets;   the printable business card sheet comprising: a laminate sheet construction including a facestock sheet construction having a front side and a back side and a continuous sheet construction attached to the back side; the facestock sheet construction including a cardstock facestock sheet; facestock continuous through-cut lines through the cardstock facestock sheet construction but not through-cut through the continuous sheet construction; the through-cut lines defining perimeter edges of printable business cards and a matrix waste portion around the printable business cards; the printable business cards being arranged in a grid, which includes a column of the printable business cards; and areas of the continuous sheet construction being positioned over back sides of all of the through-cut lines and thereby the continuous sheet construction holding the printable business cards and the matrix waste portion together during the sheet-feeding;   the sheet-feeding including the printer or copier printing user-desired indicia on front sides of each of the printable business cards to thereby form removable printed business cards; and   after the printing, removing and separating each of the removable printed business cards from and off of the continuous sheet construction and from the matrix waste portion to form individual printed business cards whose back side surfaces are non-tacky.