Product alignment using a printed relief

A lenticular product formed by a process comprising the steps of:

• providing a prefabricated lenticular sheet that has a relief pattern formed on a first face thereof;
• mechanically engaging said relief pattern of said prefabricated lenticular sheet with a pattern of inverse relief features that are formed upon a bearing surface such that relative positions of said prefabricated lenticular sheet and said bearing surface are substantially constrained in at least one axis, said pattern of raised inverse relief features having been formed by a printing process and said pattern of raised inverse relief features being geometrically and dimensionally corresponding in an inverse and conformal manner to recesses in said prefabricated lenticular sheet;
• and printing content upon a second face opposite to the first face upon which said relief pattern is formed to form the lenticular product.

A lenticular product that comprises a lenticular sheet having a lenticular array formed along a first face, the lenticular product being formed by a process comprising the steps of:

• mechanically engaging the lenticular array of said lenticular sheet with a series of raised parallel relief features that are spatially formed upon a printable substrate such that relative positions of said lenticular sheet and said printable substrate are substantially constrained in at least one axis as a result of each raised parallel relief feature being disposed in a respective valley formed between two respective adjoining lenticules of the lenticular array, said series of raised parallel relief features having been formed by a printing process;
• and printing indicia upon a second face of the lenticular sheet that is opposite to the first face upon which said series of raised parallel relief features are formed.