Method for manufacturing vehicle licence plates and foil to be used with this method

The method of manufacturing blanks for motor vehicle's number plates entails the printing on of graphic elements (12) onto a film undersize in the longitudinal direction and oversize in the width direction, printing an encompassing black edge (14) in sections, and then lining the film onto a sheet metal strip (10), before or during which the film is stretched by about 1-2 per cent in the long direction, and contracted by 0-3 - 0.7 per cent in the width direction. An Independent claim is included for a film used to manufacture number plate blanks.