Shaped article
AssigneeMimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorsKunio Hakkaku, Hirofumi Hara
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Abstract
A shaped article successfully decorated as desired and a manufacturing method for the shaped article are provided. The shaped article is manufactured by multilayer lamination technique, in which a colored layer, a first transparent layer, and a light reflective layer are formed in this order from an outer-layer side toward an inner side of the shaped article.
Claims10
A shaped article, having a plurality of forming layers which are formed by ink droplets ejected by using an inkjet printing technique, and the plurality of forming layers are stacked in a layer-stacked direction to obtain the shaped article, and the shaped article comprising:
- a decorative layer, a first transparent layer and a light reflective layer are provided in this order from an outer-layer side of the shaped article toward an inner side of the shaped article;
- wherein the light reflective layer is made of an ink having light reflectiveness;
- the first transparent layer is made of a transparent ink,
- wherein the decorative layer comprises a color ink, and a part of the plurality of the forming layers comprises a transparent supplementary ink and the color ink,
- wherein the transparent supplementary ink is configured to not adversely affect a color tone to be expressed by the decorative layer;
- wherein the decorative layer comprises:
- a first part, which is composed of only the color ink;
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- a second part, which is composed of the color ink and the transparent supplementary ink.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.