Multizone On-Demand Printable Construct

A method of making a direct thermal printable construct comprising steps of:

• advancing a first web comprising a thermally printable medium along an in-line press;
• advancing a second web comprising a metallized film along the in-line press;
• applying a clean release adhesive between the first and second webs and laminating the first and second webs together;
• cutting through the second web to form a plurality of islands within a removable matrix;
• and
• stripping the removable matrix of the second web from the first web, leaving the islands collectively supported on the first web,
• wherein the step of cutting includes cutting within the islands to thereby form a plurality of sections that are at least partially separated by cuts from other sections within the islands, and
• wherein the sections cut within the islands are individually peelable apart from the first web.

A direct thermal printable construct comprising:

• first and second substantially opaque substrates straddling a thermosensitive imaging layer;
• a clean-release adhesive layer releasably bonding the two substrates together;
• the first substrate comprising a metallized film;
• a confusion pattern printed over a first area of the metallized film leaving a second area of the metallized film exposed;
• the thermosensitive imaging layer being printable by exposing the first and second areas of the metallized film to localized heat and pressure of a thermal printhead for inducing local changes in the color of the thermosensitive imaging layer;
• and
• the second area of the metallized film being printable by the exposure of the second area of the metallized film to the localized heat and pressure of the thermal printhead for inducing local changes in the reflectivity of the metallized film,
• wherein the local color changes of the thermosensitive imaging layer and the local reflectively changes of the metallized film are achievable at the same power settings of the thermal printhead.

A method of printing a laminated construct having an internal on-demand thermally printable layer hidden between first and second substantially opaque substrates, comprising steps of:

• directing the laminated thermal construct through a thermal printer having a printhead in contact with a front surface of the first substantially opaque substrate in the form of a metallized film;
• applying heat and pressure with the printhead to a first portion of the front surface of the metallized film covered by a confusion pattern for inducing local color changes in the internal on-demand thermally printable layer;
• and
• applying heat and pressure with the same printhead to a second portion of the front surface of the metallized film that is not covered by the confusion pattern for inducing local reflectivity changes in the metallized film.

An interactive gaming system comprising:

• a gaming terminal with communications link to a processing system;
• the gaming terminal including an interface for accepting inputs concerning a game to be played, including selections originating from a player;
• the processing system being arranged for receiving the inputs from the gaming terminal over the communications link, executing a gaming algorithm corresponding to the game to be played with a computer processor, and transmitting intermediate results of the algorithm to the gaming terminal;
• the gaming terminal being arranged for receiving the intermediate results over the communications link and advancing a direct thermal printable construct for printing;
• the direct thermal printable construct including a cover substrate comprising a metallized film, and a base substrate comprising a thermally printable medium having a thermosensitive imaging layer subject to color change by thermal printing;
• and
• the gaming terminal being further arranged to include a thermal printer for thermally printing both (a) the player selections on the direct thermal printable construct in a form that can be viewed on a face of the construct and (b) the intermediate results through the cover substrate for producing color changes in the thermosensitive imaging layer that are obscured from view by the cover substrate, and for dispensing the thermally printed construct.