Heat treatable article with screen and/or inkjet printed coating thereon, and/or method of making the same

A method of making a coated article, the method comprising:

• disposing a coating on a glass substrate and over a desired frit pattern printed on and bonded to the glass substrate when the glass substrate is in a stress state that permits cutting;
• cutting the glass substrate to a desired size;
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• heat treating the cut glass substrate with the desired frit pattern and the coating thereon at a temperature sufficiently high to cause said heat treating but sufficiently low to avoid melting frit material associated with the desired frit pattern in making the coated article.

A method of making a coated article, the method comprising:

• printing a frit material on a glass substrate;
• heating the glass substrate with the frit material thereon at a first temperature in order to bond the frit material to the glass substrate in a desired pattern;
• following the heating, re-annealing the glass substrate by cooling the glass substrate in a manner that is controlled to be sufficiently slow to maintain and/or create stress in the glass substrate that is the same or similar to that present in the substrate prior to said heating;
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• following said re-annealing, forwarding the glass substrate to a fabricator to enable the fabricator to dispose a coating on the glass substrate and over the desired pattern, cut the glass substrate to a desired size, and heat treat at a second temperature the cut glass substrate with the desired pattern and the coating thereon, the second temperature being lower than the first temperature.

A large stock glass sheet, comprising:

• a frit pattern printed on a major surface of the large stock glass sheet, wherein frit material used in forming the frit pattern has a melting temperature greater than temperatures associated with heat treatment;
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• a heat treatable thin film coating provided on the major surface of the large stock glass sheet and over the frit pattern;
• wherein a stress state of the large stock glass sheet is generally consistent with annealed and/or re-annealed glass and thus permits cutting.