Inkjet printing methods for decorative laminate panels

A method of manufacturing decorative laminate panels from a decorative surface comprising staggered decorative laminate panel images, the method comprising the steps of:

• i) digitally dividing a first master image (15, 30) into decorative laminate panel images (16);
• ii) digitally staggering neighboring decorative laminate panel images (18) over a selected staggering distance (17) having a value between L/2 and L/20 with L representing a length of a decorative laminate panel;
• iii) digitally composing a second master image (19, 33) from the neighboring staggered decorative laminate panel images (18);
• and
• iv) inkjet printing the second master image (19, 33) with one or more inkjet inks on a substrate;
• wherein the second master image (19, 33) shows vertical cutting lines (20, 34) and horizontal cutting lines (21, 35) which may be inkjet printed or not;
• wherein a decorative board or laminate including the substrate printed with the second master image (19, 33) is cut into the decorative laminate panels (40, 50) following the vertical lines (20, 34) and the horizontal lines (21, 35);
• and
• wherein (a) a personalized image (10) and a background image (14) are combined to the first master image (15) or (b) a personalized image is taken as the first master image (30) and modified to an image (31) containing staggered decorative panel images, whereafter the image (31) is combined with a background image (32) to compose the second master image (33).