Method for transferring holographic and other microstructure or refractive images onto a web-carried resin coating in registration with printing on the web

A method of preparing a carrier web having printed images spaced at a first repeat distance with impressed images in registration with the printed images comprising:

• providing a carrier web with printed images spaced at a first repeat distance and corresponding registration marks;
• providing a master drum carrying an impressing image on its outer surface;
• establishing at least one registration location on the master drum;
• applying an energy curable resin coating to the carrier web;
• aligning the registration marks of the carrier web and the registration mark of the master drum as the carrier web moves past the master drum with the energy curable resin coating nipped between the carrier web and the surface of the master drum by stretching the carrier web as needed to thereby impress images on the coated carrier web in registration with the printed images;
• applying curing energy to the energy curable resin coating while the resin coating remains in contact with the impressing image;
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• collecting a finished carrier web with a cured coating bearing the impressed image.

A method of preparing a carrier web having printed images spaced at a first repeat distance with impressed images in registration with the printed images comprising:

• providing a carrier web with printed images spaced at a first repeat distance and corresponding registration marks;
• providing a master web with impressing images at a second repeat distance and corresponding registration marks where the second repeat distance is less than the first repeat distance;
• applying an energy curable resin coating to the carrier web on the side opposite the printed images;
• stretching the master web to align the registration marks of the carrier web and the master web;
• nipping the master web to the coated carrier web at a nip location point to thereby impress images on the coated carrier web in registration with the printed images;
• applying curing energy;
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• separating the master from the carrier web to leave an impressed image on the carrier web in registration with the printed images on the carrier web.