was pressed into welding rods by placing a half round embossing mold 3 on the bottom press platen 4 stripping the release paper felt from the laminate and placing it onto the mold the bottom platen was then pre heated for 2 minutes to 325 u00b0 f the top press platen 5 was then lowered onto the laminate with a top release paper release felt or ferro chrome plate 6 disposed between the top platen and the laminate the laminate was pressed for one and a half minutes at 4 psi and cooled for 3 minutes under the 4 psi pressure the laminates were placed onto the mold with the back side of the printed film against the cutting edges of the mold thus after pressing the print image was facing upward as shown in fig2 the print layer 10 is disposed between the film 11 on which the print layer is adhered and the calendered clear film 12 the individual welding rods 13 are then separated the structure of the welding rods 13 do not resemble the homogeneous round weld rods or the uniformly distributed chip half round weld rods of the prior art the product could also be made by multiple film laminations using a continuous process to laminate the.