Bristol-myers Squibb Compnay

The Procter Gamble Company

Nicola Delli Venneri

Joseph J Pereira

Kimberly A Slavin

A hair dye product is packaged in a container having a web-printed label. The label is printed on high quality paper or plastic film and has a picture of a human model whose hair is the color sought to be obtained by the hair dye. The printing process provides an accurate reproduction of the tone and hue of each hair color over the entire production run of the labels. The container may be a relatively low cost generic container of web-printed paperboard or plastic produced in a high volume production run.

Container with label for hair dye and related process

Container with label for hair dye

A method of printing multi-color images on pressure sensitive labels carried on a web uses a disk shaped mark for each color which is printed to form the image. The disks (spots) are printed on the image, or elsewhere on the top layer of the web, with one disk being printed on top of the other, so that the marks coincide in size, shape and position. If a color is misregistered, it appears as a crescent which extends beyond the multi-colored disk. Such misregistration may be immediately viewed on a video magnifier, using at least 400.times. magnification, and the misregistration corrected.

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Darien, CT, United States of America

Nicola Delli Venneri