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US 10,800,186 B2Granted
Digital printing with transparent blank ink
AssigneeCeraloc Innovation AB
InventorsDarko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Abstract
A method, a panel and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry ink (15), preferably including particles of pigment coated wood fibres (61), on a surface (2), bonding a part of the particles with a liquid blank ink drops (57) and removing the non-bonded particles from the surface (2).
Claims12
An equipment to provide a digital print on a surface with a transfer printing method, wherein the equipment comprises a digital drop application head, a toner application unit, a toner removal station and a transfer surface, wherein:
- the transfer surface is configured to rotate in a rotation direction;
- the digital drop application head is configured to apply liquid blank ink on the transfer surface;
- the toner application unit is configured to apply toner comprising colourants on the transfer surface;
- the liquid blank ink is configured to bond a part of the toner to the transfer surface;
- the toner removal station is configured to remove the non-bonded toner from the transfer surface downstream of the toner application unit along the rotation direction;
- the transfer surface with the bonded toner is configured to be pressed against the surface downstream of the toner removal station along the rotation direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.