CA1231115A - Printing material set for preparing bar-code labels by pressure-sensitive printing method - Google Patents

Printing material set for preparing bar-code labels by pressure-sensitive printing method

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CA1231115A
CA1231115A CA000452861A CA452861A CA1231115A CA 1231115 A CA1231115 A CA 1231115A CA 000452861 A CA000452861 A CA 000452861A CA 452861 A CA452861 A CA 452861A CA 1231115 A CA1231115 A CA 1231115A
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Yoshio Okada
Nobuo Ahiko
Yuriko Igarashi
Masayasu Suzuki
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Kureha Corp
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02Forms or constructions
    • G09F3/0297Forms or constructions including a machine-readable marking, e.g. a bar code
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/10Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by an adhesive layer

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Abstract

Abstract:
This invention relates to a printing material set for preparing bar-code labels by pressure-sensitive printing method. The printing material set of this invention comprises a printing tape having microcapsules, bar-code label paper or papers having an adhesive agent on the under surface thereof, and a stripping tape. Further, this invention relates to a method for preparing bar-code labels, comprising applying a bar-code imprinting pressure on the surface of the printing material set mentioned above.

Description

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Printing material set for preparing barricade labels by r_ssure-sensitive printing method This invention relaxes to printing material sets for preparing bar code labels by pressure-sensitive printing method.
Recently bar-code labels have been utilized in large quantities in which plural bar-codes are printed on the labels. The plural bar-codes indicate numeral letters which show such information as a name, a price and a weight of a commodity or an article. The bar-code labels are utilized in the statistical analysis of the information concerning the distribution of the commodities or the articles hitherto, as a process for preparing the bar-code labels, several methods of printing with carbon papers, thermosensitive papers or magnetic tapes have been devised while utilizing various types of simplified printers respectively suitable for the materials to be printed other than the transfer-ink printing method on an ordinary sheet of paper. However r the ink-printing method tends to be messy in terms of changing the ink-roll and also wends to produce uneven bar-code lines Further, special means are necessary to stabilize the printed image of the bar-codes against friction. In the thermosensitive printing method, there are many occasions of deterioration of the I

finished image of the bar-codes by after-color development due to heating because both the color-developer and the color-former exist on the surface of the label after thermal printing. In the case of using a carbon-paper, the transfer-printed pigment and wax adhere on the finished label and therefore; the distinctness of the image of the bar-codes it apt to be reduced by heat and friction.
the above defects reduce the precision of reading the bar-codes by light pen. The reduction of the precision on reading by light pen is particularly remarkable in the case where the bar-codes are printed on the sheet of paper for the label and then, the bar-code label is adhered onto the commodities or the articles themselves.
It is an object of this invention to provide a print-in material set for preparing bar-code labels by pressure-sensitive printing method, comprising a printing tape having micro capsules containing a solution of a colored distaff, said micro capsules being carried on the inside surface of said printing tape; bar-code label paper or papers having an adhesive agent on the under surface thereof; and a stripping tape carrying said bar-code label paper or papers on the inside surface of said stripping tape, said adhesive agent being arranged between said bar-code label paper or papers and said stripping tape Another object of this invention is to provide a method for preparing bar-code labels.
The other objects of this invention will become apparent hereinafter.
This invention will be described with reference to Figures 1 to 2, in which Figure 1 is a partial cross-section view of a printing material set of this invention, and Figure 2 is a plan view of a bar-code label according to this invention.
Referring to Figure 1 of the drawings the printing material set for preparing bar-code labels by pressure-sensitive printing method of our invention; comprises a printing tape l, micro capsule layer 2, bar-code label papers 3, an adhesive agent 4 and a stripping tape 5. The micro capsules of layer 2 are carried on the printing tape 1 and contain a solution of a colored dyestuEf. The bar-code label papers 3 are provided with an adhesive agent 4 on the under surface thereof facing on the stripping tape 5. The bar-code label papers 3 are detachably adhered to the stripping tape 5 with the adhesive agent 4 at lo predetermined intervals.
The micro capsules of layer 2 are crushed by applying pressure in a bar-code imprinting operation and the solution of the colored distaff containing therein is flowed to one of the bar-code label papers 3 to print a bar-code on the bar-code label paper. The solution of colored distaff is immediately absorbed into the bar-code label paper and fixed thereat. The colored distaff remains in a stable state after the evaporation of the solvent of the solution. Thereafter, the printed bar-code label is detached from the stripping tape 5 and then, is applied to a commodity or an article.
In the case of carrying out the pressure-sensitive printing method with the printing material set of this invention for printing the bar-codes, it is necessary that the micro-capsules at the pressed portion are uniformly crushed by the printing device. For that purpose, the printing tape l is preferably undestroyable by the pros-sure of the printing device and has a uniform thickness.
As a material suitable for the purpose, a plastic film of a thickness of 30~ or less than 30~ , preferably from 6 to 20~ may be used. For example 9 polyethylene film and polypropylene film may be used.
As the micro capsules held on the inside surface of the printing tape l, micro capsules normally used for preparing the pressure-sensitive recording paper may be used.

_ 4 _ As the colored distaff contained in the micro capsules, a distaff hazing a large volubility in organic solvents may be used. For example, muons compounds such as Oil Brown #125 (manufactured by Y~MAMOTO K~G~KU OOZE
CRY.) and Oil Brown ~3G extra (manufactured by SHERWOOD
KAGAKU KENKYUSHO); buzzes compolmd such as Orient Oil Black HERB (~) (manufactured by ORIENT RAGAKU l~GGYO CRY.), Oil Scarlet SUN (manufactured by SHERWOOD KAGAKU
KENKYUSHO)~ and Oleosol Red BY (manufactured by SYMPTOM KAGAKU CAGE K ok ); metal complex salts of muons compound such as Wizen Me talon Red HERS (manufactured by HODOGAYA COOK CAGE OK and Wizen Spleen Orange GROW (manufactured by HODOGAYA KAGAKU CAGE OK
anthraquinone derivative such as Orient Oil Violet #730 (manufactured by ORIENT KAGAKU ROUGE OK Ike ton Violet extra (manufactured by IKEDA KAGAKU CAGE OK and Ike ton Sudan Blue extra (manufactured by IKEDA K~G~KU
CAGE OK triarylmethane derivatives such as Methyl Violet 2B Base 125% (manufactured by NIKKO and Victoria Blue FUR (manufactured by BASS AGO.); and phthalocyanine derivatives such as Orient Oil Blue BY (manufactured by ORIENT RAGAKU KEG OK may be used.
As the solvent for dissolving the colored distaff alkylben~enes such as Tulane and zillion, diarylmethanes, diarylethanes, alkylbiphenyls, alkylnaphthalenes and the like may be used The printing tape 1 having micro capsules is prepared by coating the suspension of the micro capsules in a latex such as vinylidene chloride on the tape for printirlg and drying the coated tape. Further, in order to hold the micro capsules on the inside surface of the tape for print-in, known methods may be used.
As the bar-code label papers 3, the conventional papers for a label may be used. For example, printing papers may be used for the bar-code label papers 3 and particularly, coated papers such as coat paper, art paper and synthetic paper may be preferably used for the bar-code label papers 3. The bar-code label papers are detachably adhered to the stripping tape 5 at a predetermined interval via the adhesive agent 4 and the adhered bar-code label papers 3 are easily detached from the stripping tape 5 after print-in. Accordingly, the detachability of the stripping tape 5 is necessary and the stripping tape 5 may be selected from the known materials as a stripping tape such as a coated paper, a laminated paper, a plastic film and a coated plastic film, which may be suitably selected according to the kind of the adhesive agent.
The adhesive agent 4 used herein may be selected from known adhesive agents which can adhere pieces of papers 3 for printing the bar-codes to the commodity or the article. For example, as the adhesive agent 4, adhesive agents having pressure sensitivity such as an adhesive agent containing natural rubber, silicone polymer, acrylic polymer acrylic copolymer, polyvinylpyrrolidone or oopolymer of vinylpyrrolidone may be mentioned.
In the case where the bar-code labels are prepared by using laminated material of this invention, the printing may be carried out by applying a bar-code imprinting pros-sure on the upper surface of the printing tape 1 thereby preparing a bar-code label with the bar-codes printed in a short time after applying the imprinting pressure on the printing tape and evaporating the solvent of the solution.
The obtained bar-code on the label is fixed in a stable stave, not to be stained even by friction and to be maintained distinctly even after a few months.
This invention will be further illustrated by the following example which should not be construed as a limitation of this invention.

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(i) reparation of microcal~u______nt nun distaff An aqueous solution of a melamine-formaldehyde prepolymer (hereinafter referred to as M4F prepolymer, M4F
5 meaning that the molar ratio of formaldehyde to calamine is 4:1) was prepared by mixing 63 g of mailmen and 162 g of aqueous 37% by weight solution of formaldehyde (herein-after referred to as formal in adjusted to pi of 9.0 with the addition of aqueous 2% by weight solution of sodium hydroxide, reacting mailmen and formaldehyde at 70C
and adding 225 g Go water just after the dissolution of mailmen into the aqueous phase followed by stirring for 3 min.
Separately, an aqueous solution of a urea-formal~ehyde prepolymer (hereinafter referred to as U 1~8 F prepolymer, U 1.8 F meaning that the molar ratio of formaldehyde to urea is 1.8) was prepared by mixing 60 g of urea and 146 g of formal in adjusted to pi of 8.5 with the addition of triethanolamine and reacting urea and formaldehyde at 70C
for one hour. The mixture of 20 g of a water-soluble cat-ionic urea resin tUramin~ P-1500, manufactured by Mutt-Toyotas Coo Japan), 100 g of the M4F prepolymer, 50 g of the U 1.8 F prepolymer, 200 g of water and 1 g of in-ethanol amine was adjusted to pi of 5.2 by adding aqueous 10 % by weight solution of citric acid and then 3 9 of aqueous 10 by weight solution of sodium alkylbenzene-sulfonate (Neopelex~3, manufactured by Kettles Co., Japan) was added to the mixture.
After adding a mixture of 3 g of distaff (Ike ton Sudan Blue extra I), 50 g of di-isopropy] naphthalene and 50 9 of zillion further to the above-mentioned mixture, the whole system was subjected to homogenization in a homogenizer to form an emulsion containing droplets of 5 to 10 microns in average diameter, and while maintaining the temperature of the emulsion at 30C it was gently stirred and the pi was adjusted to 3.8 with the addition ~23~

of aqueous 10 by weight solution of citric acid. Then, after one hour, aqueous 10 by weight solution of citric acid was added again to the whole mixture to adjust the pi thereof to 3.0 and 100 g of water was added, and further by stirring the whole system as it was for 15 hours the microenc~psulation was completed.
(ii3 Preparation of printing material set-The prepared micro capsules were suspended in latex of vinylidene chloride and then, the suspension of the micro capsules was coated on the surface of polyethylene tape having 15~ in thickness.
The coated polyethylene tape was set on pieces of paper for use in a bar-code label paper, which was previously laminated with stripping tape.
(iii) Preparation of bar-code label:
The prepared printing material set as shown in Fig. 1 was printed by applying a percussion pressure and the printed images as shown in Fig. 2 were fixed on the surface of the bar-code label paper. The printed images were not stained by friction and were maintained distinctly even after a few months

Claims (5)

Claims:
1. A printing material set for preparing bar-code labels by a pressure-sensitive printing method, comprising a printing tape having microcapsules containing a solution of a colored dyestuff, said microcapsules being carried on the inside surface of said printing tape; bar-code label paper or papers having an adhesive agent on the under surface thereof; and a stripping tape carrying said bar-code label paper or papers on the inside sur-face of said stripping tape, said adhesive agent being arranged between said bar-code label paper or papers and said stripping tape.
2. The printing material set of claim 1, wherein the printing tape is a plastic film.
3. The printing material set of claim 1, wherein the colored dyestuff is selected from a monoazo compound, a bisazo compound, a metal-complex salt of a monoazo compound, an anthraquinone compound, a phthalocyanine compound and a triarylmethane compound.
4. The printing material set of claim 1 or 3, wherein the colored dyestuff is dissolved in an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of alkylbenzene, di-arylmethane, alkylbiphenyl and alkylnaphthalene.
5. A method for preparing bar-code label, comprising applying a bar code imprinting pressure on the surface of a printing material set including a printing tape having microcapsules containing a solution of a colored dyestuff, said microcapsules being carried on the inside surface of said printing tape; bar-code label paper or papers having an adhesive agent on the under surface thereof; and a stripping tape carrying said bar-code label paper or papers on the inside surface of said stripping tape, said adhesive agent being arranged between said bar-code label paper or papers and said stripping tape.
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