Method of forming a sheet of printable media

• US 7,288,163 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2003
• Issued: 10/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ccl Label Incorporated (CCL Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Arthur B., McCarthy, Brian R., Patterson, Charles Thurmond, Weirather, Steven Craig, Cross, Patricia L., Mohan, Sunjay Yedehalli, Scroggs, Tony Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Tucker; Philip
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chan; Sing P.
• Application Number:
  US10/366,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20030150550A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,720 Days
• Field of Search: 156/248, 156/253, 156/257, 156/259, 156268-271, 156/277, 156/251, 283/70, 283/75, 283/94, 283/98, 283/100, 101/483
• US Class Current: 156/248
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/02 Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets B42D25/00 takes precedence; envelopes B65D27/00
• CPC Class Codes: B42P 2241/22 Sheets or cards with additional means allowing easy feeding through printers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1057 Subsequent to assembly of laminae
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1064 Partial cutting [e.g., grooving or incising]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1067 Continuous longitudinal slitting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/108 Flash, trim or excess removal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1082 Partial cutting bonded sandwich [e.g., grooving or incising]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1084 of continuous or running length bonded web
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1085 One web only
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1087 Continuous longitudinal slitting

Abstract

A method of forming printable media including providing a laminate construction which includes (1) a film coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film coated liner. The facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together form a laminate facestock. The facestock is cut to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media. Areas of the liner cover backsides of the facestock cut lines and thereby hold the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allow the printed media to be removed from the liner after the printing operation into individual printed media.

Claims

1. A method of forming a printable media sheet construction, comprising:

providing a sheet construction including a liner sheet and a facestock sheet;

cutting the facestock sheet without cutting through the liner sheet to form printable media;

cutting the liner sheet without cutting the facestock sheet to form a plurality of spaced liner strips on the facestock sheet and liner waste strips between the spaced liner strips; and

after the cutting the liner sheet, removing the liner waste strips from off of the facestock sheet.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the liner sheet is a paper liner sheet adhered to the facestock sheet with ultraremovable adhesive.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the providing includes the sheet construction being provided as a web, and further comprising after the removing, sheeting the web into sheets.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the removing includes pulling the liner waste strips on to a rotating cylinder.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising calendering an infeed end of the sheet construction.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the printable media comprise a matrix of abutting columns and rows of printable business cards.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the cutting the facestock sheet forms facestock horizontal cut and vertical cut lines, and the spaced liner strips cover the horizontal cut lines.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the spaced liner strips are wider where the respective horizontal cut lines intersect the vertical cut lines than at areas centrally disposed between adjacent vertical cut lines.

7. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including (1) a film-coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film-coated liner;

the facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together forming a laminate facestock;

cutting through the facestock to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

cutting through an outer face of the liner to define a plurality of liner strips on a back side of the laminate facestock; and

removing some of the liner strips off the facestock.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the removing includes removing alternating ones of the liner strips.

21. The method of claim 7 wherein the facestock cut lines include horizontal and vertical cut lines, and the liner strips remaining on the facestock after the removing cover the horizontal outlines and define remaining liner strips.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein the remaining liner strips are wider where the respective horizontal cut lines intersect the vertical lines than at areas centrally disposed between adjacent vertical cut lines.

9. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including (1) a film-coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film-coated liner;

the facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together forming a laminate facestock;

cutting through the facestock to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

cutting through an outer face of the liner to define a plurality of liner strips on a back side of the laminate facestock; and

wherein the liner strips extend diagonally on a back of the laminate facestock.

10. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including (1) a film-coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film-coated liner;

the facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together forming a laminate facestock;

cutting through the facestock to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

cutting through an outer face of the liner to define a plurality of liner strips on a back side of the laminate facestock; and

wherein the liner strips have wavy curved shapes.

11. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including (1) a film-coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film-coated liner;

the facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together forming a laminate facestock;

cutting through the facestock to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

cutting through an outer face of the liner to define a plurality of liner strips on a back side of the laminate facestock; and

wherein the liner strips define oppositely-facing, spaced fish-shaped strips.

12. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including (1) a film-coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film-coated liner;

the facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together forming a laminate facestock;

cutting through the facestock to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

wherein areas of the liner cover back sides of the facestock cut lines and thereby hold the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allow the printed media to be removed from the liner after the printing operation into individual printed media; and

wherein the liner defines a solid liner sheet.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the solid liner sheet covers the back sides of all of the facestock cut lines.

14. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including (1) a film-coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film-coated liner;

the facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together forming a laminate facestock;

cutting through the facestock to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

wherein the facestock cut lines include vertical and horizontal cut lines;

wherein the facestock includes a facestock sheet and an end one of the horizontal cut lines extends a full width of the facestock sheet; and

wherein ends of the rest of the horizontal cut lines are spaced inwardly from left and right side edges of the facestock sheet.

15. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including (1) a film-coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film-coated liner;

the facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together forming a laminate facestock;

cutting through the facestock to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media; and

further comprising the laminate construction being provided on a roll;

sheeting the laminate sheet construction into a plurality of sheets, each of the sheets including a plurality of the printable media; and

before the cutting and sheeting, loading the roll onto a press; and

wherein the printable media define a matrix of rectangular business cards comprising a plurality of rows and columns of the cards, and wherein the business cards each directly abut business cards in adjacent rows and columns separated only by the facestock cut line therebetween.

16. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

wherein the printable media comprise a plurality of cards;

wherein one of the cards directly abuts another one of the cards separated only by one of the facestock cut lines therebetween;

wherein the facestock sheet construction includes a facestock sheet and the laminate construction includes a film layer between the facestock sheet and the carrier sheet construction; and

wherein the film layer is a polyethylene layer.

17. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

wherein the printable media comprise a plurality of cards;

wherein one of the cards directly abuts another one of the cards separated only by one of the facestock outlines therebetween;

wherein the facestock sheet construction includes a facestock sheet and the laminate construction includes a film layer between the facestock sheet and the carrier sheet construction; and

wherein the cards comprise rectangular printable business cards.

18. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

wherein the back side of the facestock sheet construction forms back side surfaces of the printable media;

wherein the facestock sheet construction includes a facestock sheet and the laminate construction includes a film layer between the facestock sheet and the carrier sheet construction; and

wherein the film layer is a polyethylene layer.

23. A method of forming a business card sheet construction, comprising:

providing a facestock sheet having a front side surface and a back side surface and a liner sheet releasably adhered to the facestock sheet so that the liner sheet covers the entire back side surface;

forming facestock continuous through-cut lines through the facestock sheet to the back side surface, but not through the liner sheet;

the through-cut lines defining at least in part perimeter edges of printable business cards which directly abut one another and share at least a common edge;

the back side surface of the facestock sheet forming back side surfaces of the printable business cards;

areas of the liner sheet covering back sides of all of the through-cut lines and thereby holding the printable business cards together when the business card sheet construction is fed into a printer or copier for a printing operation on the front side surface of the business cards and allowing the business cards to be removed from the liner sheet after the printing operation into individual printed business cards; and

the business card sheet construction including an internally positioned film.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein the forming includes cutting at least some of the through-cut lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet.

25. The method of claim 23 wherein the business cards are in a central area of the facestock sheet, and at least some of the through-cut lines define a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet around all of the business cards.

26. The method of claim 23 further comprising forming a flexibility weakened line in the business card sheet construction, extending inwardly from a sheet edge of the business card sheet construction and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility to the business card sheet construction.

27. The method of claim 23 wherein the forming includes die cutting the through-cut lines.

28. The method of claim 23 wherein the business card sheet construction includes an internally positioned layer of adhesive.

29. The method of claim 23 wherein the facestock sheet and the liner sheet are adhered together in a rolled web, before the forming.

30. The method of claim 23 wherein (a) the facestock sheet includes left and right side edges, (b) the through-cut lines include frame cut lines and grid cut lines, (c) the frame cut lines include first and second side cut lines spaced in from the left and right side edges, respectively, and disposed parallel thereto, and first and second end cut lines spaced in from and parallel to the first and second end edges, both of the end cut lines engaging both of the side cut lines, the frame cut lines defining a central area on the facestock sheet (d) the grid cut lines defining a grid disposed in the central area, and (e) the grid cut lines and the frame cut lines separating the central area into the printable business cards.

31. A method of forming a business card sheet construction, comprising:

providing a facestock sheet having a font side surface and a back side surface and a liner sheet releasably adhered to the facestock sheet so that the liner sheet covers at least substantially the entire back side surface;

forming facestock continuous through-cut lines through the facestock sheet to the back side surface, but not through the liner sheet;

the through-cut lines defining at least in part perimeter edges of printable business cards which directly abut one another and share at least a common edge;

the printable business cards being in a central area of the facestock sheet;

the through-cut lines defining a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet around all of the printable business cards;

the back side surface of the facestock sheet forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable business cards; and

areas of the liner sheet covering back sides of all of the through-cut lines and thereby holding the printable business cards together when the business card sheet construction is fed into a printer or copier for a printing operation on the front side surface of the business cards and allowing the business cards to be removed from the liner sheet after the printing operation into individual printed business cards.

32. The method of claim 31 wherein the forming includes die cutting at least some of the through-cut lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet.

33. The method of claim 31 wherein the business card sheet construction includes an internal layer of adhesive and an internal film layer on the layer of adhesive.

34. The method of claim 31 wherein the facestock sheet and the liner sheet are releasably adhered together in a rolled web, before the forming;

and further comprising unwinding the web to form ah unwound web portion and sheeting the unwound web portion.

35. The method of claim 31 wherein the printable business cards comprise a plurality of rows and columns of cards.

36. The method of claim 31 wherein the business card sheet construction includes an internal film.

37. A method of forming a business card sheet construction, comprising:

forming facestock continuous through-cut lines through a facestock sheet to a back side surface thereof, but not through-cut through a liner sheet, the liner sheet being releasably adhered to the facestock sheet so that the liner sheet covers at least substantially the entire back side surface;

the facestock sheet and the liner sheet at least substantially forming a laminate sheet construction;

the forming including die cutting through a solid surface of the facestock sheet to form the through-cut lines;

the through-cut lines defining at least in part perimeter edges of printable business cards which directly abut one another and share at least a common edge;

the back side surface of the facestock sheet forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable business cards; and

areas of the liner sheet covering back sides of the through-cut lines and thereby holding the printable business cards together when the business card sheet construction is fed into a printer or copier for a printing operation on a front side surface of the business cards and allowing the business cards to be removed from the liner sheet after the printing operation into individual printed business cards.

38. The method of claim 37 wherein the laminate sheet construction includes an internally positioned film.

39. The method of claim 37 wherein the laminate sheet construction includes a layer of adhesive and a film layer on the layer of adhesive.

40. A method of forming a business card sheet construction, comprising:

forming facestock continuous through-cut lines through a facestock sheet to a back side surface thereof, but not through-cut through a liner sheet, the liner sheet being releasably adhered to the facestock sheet so that the liner sheet covers at least substantially the entire back side surface;

the facestock sheet and the liner sheet at least substantially forming a laminate sheet construction;

the through-cut lines defining at least in part perimeter edges of printable business cards which directly abut one another and share at least a common edge;

the printable business card being in a central area of the facestock sheet;

at least some of the through-cut lines defining a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet around all of the printable business cards;

the back side surface of the facestock sheet forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable business cards; and

areas of the liner sheet covering back sides of the through-cut lines and thereby holding the printable business cards together when the business card sheet construction is fed into a printer or copier for a printing operation on a front side surface of the business cards and allowing the business cards to be removed from the liner sheet after the printing operation into individual printed business cards.

41. The method of claim 40 wherein the business card sheet construction includes an internally positioned film.

42. The method of claim 40 wherein the forming includes die cutting at least some of the through-cut lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet.

43. The method of claim 40 further comprising forming a flexibility weakened line in the laminate sheet construction, extending inwardly from a sheet edge of the laminate sheet construction and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility to the business card sheet construction.

44. A method of forming a business card sheet construction, comprising:

forming facestock continuous through-cut lines through a facestock sheet to a back side surface thereof, but not through-cut through a liner sheet, the liner sheet being releasably adhered to the facestock sheet so that the liner sheet covers at least substantially the entire back side surface;

the facestock sheet and the liner sheet at least substantially forming a laminate sheet construction;

the through-cut lines defining at least in part perimeter edges of printable business cards which directly abut one another and share at least a common edge;

the through-cut lines defining a facestock sheet non-card waste portion;

the back side surface of the facestock sheet forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable business cards;

areas of the liner sheet covering back sides of the through-cut lines and thereby holding the printable business cards together when the business card sheet construction is fed into a printer or copier for a printing operation on a front side surface of the business cards and allowing the business cards to be removed from the liner sheet after the printing operation into individual printed business cards; and

forming a flexibility weakened line in at least one of the facestock sheet and the liner sheet, extending inwardly from a sheet edge of the laminate sheet construction and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility to the business card sheet construction.

45. The method of claim 44 wherein the laminate sheet construction includes an internally positioned film layer and an internally positioned adhesive layer.

46. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

the dry laminate construction including an internally positioned film;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the carrier sheet construction comprising a solid carrier sheet; and

areas of the carrier sheet covering back sides of the facestock cut lines and thereby holding the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allowing the printable media to be removed from the carrier sheet construction after the printing operation into individual printed media.

47. The method of claim 46 wherein the cutting includes cutting at least some of the facestock out lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction.

48. A method of forming printable cards, comprising:

cutting through a facestock sheet of a sheet construction, which includes a liner sheet construction and the facestock sheet attached to the liner sheet construction, but not through-out through the liner sheet construction, to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable cards;

the sheet construction including an internally positioned film;

sheeting the sheet construction into a plurality of printable card sheets, each of the sheets including a plurality of the printable cards;

the printable cards defining a card matrix including a plurality of rows and columns of the printable cards on each of the sheets, and the cards in the matrix directly abut cards in adjacent rows and columns, separated only by the facestock cut line therebetween;

the sheet construction comprising a web; and

before the cutting and the sheeting, unwinding the web off of a roll.

49. The method of claim 48 wherein the card matrix is in a central area of the facestock sheet, and the cut lines define a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet around the card matrix.

50. A method of forming printable cards, comprising:

cutting through a facestock sheet of a sheet construction, which includes a liner sheet construction and the facestock sheet attached to the liner sheet construction, but not through-cut through the liner sheet construction, to form facestock outlines defining at least in pad perimeters of printable cards;

sheeting the sheet constriction into a plurality of printable card sheets, each of the sheets including a plurality of the printable cards which are removable from the liner sheet as individual non-tacky cards;

the printable cards defining a card matrix including a plurality of rows and columns of the printable cards on each of the sheets, and the cards in the matrix directly abut cards in adjacent rows and columns, separated only by the facestock cut line therebetween;

before the sheeting, forming flexibility weakened lines in the sheet construction such that after the sheeting, each of the sheets includes one of the flexibility weakened lines extending inwardly from a sheet edge thereof and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility for the sheet;

the sheet construction comprising a web; and

before the cutting and the sheeting, unwinding the web off of a roll.

51. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

the dry laminate construction including an internally positioned film;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the printable media comprising a plurality of cards;

one of the cards directly abutting another one of the cards separated only by one of the facestock cut lines therebetween; and

the cards comprising rectangular printable business cards.

52. The method of claim 51 wherein the cutting includes die cutting at least some of the cut lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction.

53. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

the dry laminate construction including an internally positioned film;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the printable media comprising a plurality of cards;

one of the cards directly abutting another one of the cards separated only by one of the facestock cut lines therebetween;

the carrier sheet construction defining a solid carrier sheet; and

the solid carrier sheet covering the back sides of all of the facestock cut lines.

54. The method of claim 53 wherein the cards are in a central area of the facestock sheet, and at least some of the cut lines define a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet around all of the cards.

55. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting into a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction and through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock outlines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the printable media comprising a plurality of non-tacky cards which are removable from the carrier sheet construction;

one of the cards directly abutting another one of the cards separated only by one of the facestock outlines therebetween; and

the facestock cut lines including vertical and horizontal cut lines.

56. The method of claim 55 wherein the laminate construction includes an internally positioned film.

57. The method of claim 55 wherein the cards are in a central area of the facestock sheet construction, and at least some of the cut lines define a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet construction around all of the cards.

58. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the cutting including cutting through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction to form at least some of the facestock cut lines;

the printable media comprising a plurality of non-tacky cards which are removable from the carrier sheet construction;

one of the cards directly abutting another one of the cards separated only by one of the facestock cut lines therebetween;

the cards defining a matrix of rectangular business cards comprising a plurality of rows and columns of the business cards; and

the business cards each directly abutting business cards in adjacent rows and columns separated only by the facestock cut line therebetween.

59. The method of claim 58 wherein the laminate construction includes an internally positioned film.

60. The method of claim 58 wherein the matrix is in a central area of the facestock sheet construction, and at least some of the outlines define a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet construction around the matrix.

61. The method of claim 58 further comprising forming a flexibility weakened line in the laminate construction, extending inwardly from a sheet edge of the laminate construction and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility to the laminate construction.

62. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

the dry laminate construction including an internally positioned film;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the printable media comprising a matrix of cards including a pair of columns and a plurality of rows.

63. The method of claim 62 wherein the cutting includes cutting at least some of the cut lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction.

64. The method of claim 62 wherein the matrix is in a central area of the facestock sheet construction, and at least some of the cut lines define a non-card waste border portion of the facestock sheet construction around the matrix.

65. The method of claim 62 wherein the dry laminate construction includes a layer of adhesive on the film.

66. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the cutting including cutting through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction to form at least some of the facestock cut lines;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the printable media comprising rectangular printable business cards.

67. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the printable media being arranged in a block;

the cut lines forming a facestock sheet non-media waste first portion on a first side of the block and a facestock sheet non-media waste second portion on a second side of the block;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the printable media comprising rectangular printable business cards.

68. The method of claim 67 wherein the laminate construction includes an internally positioned film.

69. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

the dry laminate construction including an internally positioned film;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming back side surfaces of the printable media;

the carrier sheet construction defining a solid carrier sheet; and

the solid carrier sheet covering the back sides of all of the facestock cut lines.

70. The method of claim 69 wherein the cutting includes die cutting at least some of the through-cut lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction.

71. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the cutting including cutting through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction to form at least some of the facestock cut lines;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the facestock cut lines including vertical and horizontal cut lines.

72. The method of claim 71 wherein the laminate constriction includes an internally positioned film and an internally positioned adhesive layer.

73. The method of claim 71 wherein the printable media are in a central area of the facestock sheet construction, and at least some of the cut lines define a non-media waste border portion of the facestock sheet construction around all of the printable media.

74. The method of claim 71 further comprising forming a flexibility weakened line in the laminate construction, extending inwardly from a sheet edge of the laminate construction and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility to the laminate construction.

75. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

the dry laminate construction including an extruded layer;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the facestock cut lines including vertical and horizontal cut lines.

76. The method of claim 75 wherein the carrier sheet construction includes a solid liner sheet.

77. The method of claim 75 wherein the dry laminate construction includes a layer of adhesive on the extruded layer.

78. The method of claim 75 wherein the printable media comprise a matrix block of printable business cards surrounded by a waste non-card facestock sheet perimeter frame.

79. The method of claim 75 further comprising sheeting the dry laminate construction.

80. The method of claim 75 further comprising unwinding the dry laminate construction off of a roll of same before the cutting.

81. The method of claim 75 wherein areas of the carrier sheet construction cover back sides of at least some of the facestock cut lines and thereby hold the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allow the printed media to be removed after the printing operation into individual printed media.

82. The method of claim 75 wherein the carrier sheet construction includes a base paper sheet.

83. The method of claim 75 wherein the extruded layer is a film layer;

the facestock sheet construction includes a facestock sheet and the laminate construction includes the film layer being between the facestock sheet and the carrier sheet construction.

84. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a dry laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

the dry laminate construction including a film;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the carrier sheet construction covering all of the back sides of all of the facestock cut lines.

85. The method of claim 84 wherein the cutting includes cutting at least some of the facestock cut lines through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction.

86. The method of claim 84 wherein the printable media are in a central area of the facestock sheet construction, and at least some of the cut lines define a non-media waste border portion of the facestock sheet construction around all of the printable media.

87. The method of claim 84 further comprising forming a flexibility weakened line in the dry laminate construction, extending inwardly from a sheet edge of the dry laminate construction and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility to the dry laminate construction.

88. The method of claim 84 wherein the carrier sheet construction includes a solid liner sheet.

89. The method of claim 84 wherein the dry laminate construction includes a layer of adhesive on the film.

90. The method of claim 84 wherein the cut lines define all of the perimeter edges of all of the printable media.

91. The method of claim 84 wherein the printable media comprise a plurality of at least one of rows and columns of cards.

92. The method of claim 84 further comprising sheeting the laminate construction.

93. The method of claim 84 wherein areas of the carrier sheet construction cover back sides of at least some of the facestock cut lines and thereby hold the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allow the printed media to be removed after the printing operation into individual printed media.

94. The method of claim 84 wherein the carrier sheet construction includes a base paper sheet.

95. The method of claim 84 wherein the printable media define a matrix of rectangular business cards comprising a plurality of rows and columns of the cards, and wherein the business cards each directly abut business cards in adjacent rows and columns separated only by the facestock cut line therebetween.

96. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through the carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

the cutting including cutting through a solid surface of the facestock sheet construction to form at least some of the facestock cut lines;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the carrier sheet construction covering all of the back sides of all of the facestock cut lines.

97. The method of claim 96 wherein the laminate construction includes an internally positioned film layer.

98. The method of claim 96 wherein the facestock sheet construction includes a facestock sheet and the laminate construction includes a film layer between the facestock sheet and the carrier sheet construction.

99. The method of claim 96 wherein the carrier sheet construction includes a paper sheet.

100. A method of forming printable media, comprising:

providing a laminate construction including a facestock sheet construction and a carrier sheet construction attached to a back side of the facestock sheet construction;

cutting through the facestock sheet construction but not through me carrier sheet construction to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media;

at least some of the facestock cut lines defining a facestock sheet non-media waste portion;

forming a flexibility weakened line in the laminate construction, extending inwardly from a sheet edge of the laminate construction and providing printer/copier feeding flexibility to the laminate construction;

the back side of the facestock sheet construction forming non-tacky back side surfaces of the printable media; and

the carrier sheet construction covering all of the back sides of all of the facestock cut lines.