Sublimation printing on hide or leather
AssigneeEngler Italia S.R.L.
InventorBruno Piccirilli
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Abstract
A process of sublimation printing on hide or leather, a laminar substrate to be used in such a sublimation printing process, hide or leather treated to be printable, as well as hide or leather printed by said process of sublimation printing, are described.
Claims12
A process of sublimation printing on hide or leather, the process comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a laminar substrate,
- b) applying a polymeric adhesive material comprising polyester, polyamide, polyurethane, polyethylene, or a mixture thereof, on a side of said laminar substrate,
- d) providing hide or leather,
- e) hot pressing said side of the laminar substrate on said hide or leather, and
- f) separating the laminar substrate from hide or leather,
- wherein, between step b) and step d), a step c) of ink jet printing is carried out with a sublimation ink on said side of the laminar substrate, or alternatively
- after step f), a step g) of ink jet printing is carried out with a sublimation ink on hide or leather, and wherein said polymeric adhesive material is microencapsulated.
Laminar substrate for sublimation printing, said substrate being in the form of sheet or strip and comprising paper, plastic material, or a combination thereof, wherein on one side of the laminar substrate, is present a polymeric adhesive material comprising polyester, polyamide, polyurethane, polyethylene or a mixture thereof, wherein said polymeric adhesive material is microencapsulated.
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