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US 9,242,501 B2Granted
Printed article
AssigneeNovalia Ltd.
InventorKate Stone
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Abstract
A printed article (1) comprises a substrate (2) and an image (3) printed on the substrate. The image includes line art (4) comprises conductive ink. The image includes representations of at least two items (61, 62) which overlap such that line art of a first item is joined at least one point (71) to line art of a second item.
Claims7
A printed article comprising:
- a substrate;
- an image printed on the substrate, wherein the image includes line art comprising conductive ink, the image including representations of at least two items which overlap such that line art of a first item is directly joined, at least at one connection point, to line art of a second item and the line arts of the first and second items include breaks in lines or at junctions which are imperceptible to the naked eye or hidden by an overlying layer of ink.
A method of forming a printed article, the method comprising:
- providing an image which includes line art;
- arranging the line art so that representations of at least two items overlap such that line art of a first item is directly joined, at least at one connection point, to line art of a second item, the line arts of the first and second items include breaks in lines or at junctions which are imperceptible to the naked eye or hidden by an overlying layer of ink;
- and
- printing the line art using conductive ink.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.