Printing of lottery tickets

A method of printing a row of lottery tickets comprising:

• in a printing process at a printing facility carrying out all the following steps:
• providing a substrate in a continuous strip;
• printing onto the substrate in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a repetitive printing roller one or more base layers;
• printing onto said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets game data using a first variable image printing system so that the game data of each ticket is different from the game data of a next adjacent ticket in the row;
• printing onto the game data on said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a series of repetitive printing rollers a series of covering layers including at least one sealing layer and at least one scratch-off layer so that the game data are hidden from view until exposed by removing said at least one scratch-off layer;
• printing onto the scratch-off layer in the continuous strip for each of the tickets of the row of tickets a multi-color digital image different from the game data using a second variable image printing system;
• and using the second variable image printing system to change the image printed so that different images are printed on different tickets of the row;
• wherein at least part of said multi-color image of at least some of the tickets is printed subsequently at a different location.

A method of printing a row of lottery tickets comprising:

• in a printing process at a printing facility carrying out all the following steps:
• providing a substrate in a continuous strip;
• printing onto the substrate in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a repetitive printing roller one or more base layers;
• printing onto said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets game data using a first variable image printing system so that the game data of each ticket is different from the game data of a next adjacent ticket in the row;
• printing onto the game data on said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a series of repetitive printing rollers a series of covering layers including at least one sealing layer and at least one scratch-off layer so that the game data are hidden from view until exposed by removing said at least one scratch-off layer;
• printing onto the scratch-off layer in the continuous strip for each of the tickets of the row of tickets a multi-color digital image different from the game data using a second variable image printing system;
• using the second variable image printing system to change the image printed so that different images are printed on different tickets of the row;
• forming the row into tickets wherein some of the tickets are of a different purchase price from others of the tickets;
• such that the different multi-color images of the different tickets provide different graphics for the different purchase price tickets.

A method of printing a row of lottery tickets comprising:

• providing a substrate in a continuous strip;
• printing onto the substrate in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a repetitive printing roller one or more base layers;
• printing onto said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets game data using a first variable image printing system so that the game data of each ticket is different from the game data of a next adjacent ticket in the row;
• printing onto the game data on said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a series of repetitive printing rollers a series of covering layers including at least one sealing layer and at least one scratch-off layer so that the game data are hidden from view until exposed by removing said at least one scratch-off layer;
• printing onto the scratch-off layer in the continuous strip for each of the tickets of the row of tickets a multi-color digital image different from the game data using a second variable image printing system;
• using the second variable image printing system to change the image printed so that different images are printed on different tickets of the row;
• forming the row into tickets wherein some of the tickets are of a different value from others of the tickets;
• such that the different multi-color images of the different tickets provide different graphics for, the different value tickets;
• including forming the row into tickets wherein said at least one of the tickets is of a different length from others of the tickets such that the different multi-color image of said at least one of the tickets provides different graphics for the different length tickets.

A method of printing a row of lottery tickets comprising:

• providing a substrate in a continuous strip;
• printing onto the substrate in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a repetitive printing roller one or more base layers;
• printing onto said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets game data using a first variable image printing system, so that the game data of each ticket is different from the game data of a next adjacent ticket in the row;
• printing onto the game data on said one or more the base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a series of repetitive printing rollers a series of covering layers including at least one sealing layer and at least one scratch-off layer so that the game data are hidden from view until exposed by removing said at least one scratch-off layer;
• printing onto the scratch-off layer in the continuous strip for each of the tickets of the row of tickets a multi-color digital image different from the game data using a second variable image printing system;
• using the second variable image printing system to change the image printed so that different images are printed on different tickets of the row;
• forming the row into tickets wherein some of the tickets are of a different length from others of the tickets;
• such that the different multi-color image of the tickets provides different graphics for the different length tickets.