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US 2004/0069172 A1Published application
Natural-appearing, penetrating, ink sublimation printing process
AssigneeBasic Research L.L.C.
InventorsJohn Walter Horne, George Evan Bybee
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Abstract
A new and improved process for printing a durable image prepared from sublimable inks on a substrate of natural or synthetic materials by first providing the substrate with a transparent polymeric top coating formed from an acrylic polyol or isocyanate resins or mixtures thereof and transferring onto the substrate the image formed from sublimable inks by sublimation.
Claims28
A process of a printing a durable image on a substrate comprising:
- (a) providing a transferable sublimable ink image transfer sheet containing on its surface the image to be printed formed from sublimable inks;
- (b) providing on a surface of said substrate a transparent polymeric top coating formed from a resin selected from the group consisting of acrylic polyol resins, polyisocyanate resins, and mixture thereof;
- (c) contacting the coating on said coated substrate with the surface of said transfer sheet containing said sublimable ink image to the printed;
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- (d) allowing, while said contact is maintained, said sublimable ink on said image on said transfer material to transfer said image by sublimation to the substrate whereby the image is printed on the substrate.
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