Printing with differential receptivity
AssigneeContra Vision Ltd.
InventorsGeorge R. Hill, Mark D. Godden
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Abstract
A method of imaging a substrate is disclosed, the method consisting of applying a first layer to the substrate to form a “print pattern” and a second step of presenting an “addressed design” to the substrate both within an outside the area of the print pattern. In the method of the invention, within the print pattern the addressed design is formed into a “durable image material” forming at least a part of the design layer and outside the print pattern, the addressed design does not form a durable image material.
Claims109
A method of making a printed panel having a design printed thereon, said design comprising a durable image material design color layer, said method comprising:
- printing a print pattern onto a substantially imperforate substrate to form a patterned substrate, said print pattern subdividing said imperforate substrate into printed areas and non-printed areas;
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- presenting a design-generating medium to said patterned substrate to form an imaged substrate without regard to whether said design-generating medium is being presented to said printed areas or to said non-printed areas of said patterned substrate;
- wherein said design-generating medium causes said durable image material design color layer to be formed only on the printed areas of said patterned substrate but not on the non-printed areas of said patterned substrate, said durable image material design color layer being formed by a digital printing method and not extending over the whole of the printed areas of the print pattern;
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- wherein said design-generating medium causes either (i) no image material to be formed on the non-printed areas of said patterned substrate or (ii) only non-durable image material to be formed on the non-printed areas of said patterned substrate, said non-durable image material being defined as material which can be substantially removed from the non-printed areas of said patterned substrate by the application of water at a pressure of 200 psi (14 kg/cm2) at a flow rate of 10 liters per minute.
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