Sublimation printing on hide or leather
AssigneeEngler Italia S.R.L.
InventorBruno Piccirilli
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Abstract
A process of sublimation printing on hide or leather, a laminar substrate to be used in such a sublimation printing process, hide or leather treated to be printable, as well as hide or leather printed by said process of sublimation printing, are described.
Claims14
A process of sublimation printing on hide or leather, the process comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a laminar substrate,
- b) applying a polymeric adhesive material comprising polyester, polyamide, polyurethane, polyethylene, or a mixture thereof, on a side of said laminar substrate,
- d) providing hide or leather,
- e) hot pressing said side of the laminar substrate on said hide or leather, and
- f) separating the laminar substrate from hide or leather,
- wherein, between step b) and step d), a step c) of ink jet printing is carried out with a sublimation ink on said side of the laminar substrate, or alternatively
- after step f), a step g) of ink jet printing is carried out with a sublimation ink on hide or leather.
Laminar substrate for sublimation printing, said substrate being in the form of sheet or strip and comprising paper, plastic material, or a combination thereof, wherein on one side of the laminar substrate, is present a polymeric adhesive material comprising polyester, polyamide, polyurethane, polyethylene or a mixture thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.