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, preferably including particles of pigment coated wood fibres, on a surface, bonding a part of the particles with a liquid blank ink drops and removing the non-bonded particles from the surface. A panel having a surface with a wood grain décor, the panel including a first surface portion that is formed by a continuous basic layer including wood fibres having a first color, and a second surface portion that is formed by wood fibres having a second color, wherein the wood fibres having the second color are applied on and bonded to the continuous basic layer, and wherein the second surface portion covers a part of the first surface portion.
Claims11
A panel having a surface with a wood grain décor, the panel comprising a first surface portion that is formed by a basic layer comprising a first set of wood fibers having a first color and a first size, and a second surface portion that is formed by a second set of wood fibers having a second color and a second size,
- wherein the basic layer comprises a powder, the powder comprising the first set of wood fibers,
- wherein the basic layer is continuous,
- wherein the second set of wood fibers having the second color are applied on and bonded directly to the basic layer,
- wherein the second surface portion covers only a part of the first surface portion,
- wherein the first size of the first set of wood fibers is larger than the second size of the second set of wood fibers, and
- wherein the first color and the second color are brown, the second color being darker than the first color.
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