Digitally printed heat transfer label
AssigneeAvery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
InventorsJoseph M Daley, Robert Starling, Osman N. Tanrikulu
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Abstract
A digitally printed heat transfer label and method of manufacture is disclosed. The heat transfer label and method of manufacture provides a more efficient process with less waste, as well as prevents halos. The method comprises adding adhesive powder to a digital image printed on a substrate to produce a high stretch, multi-color photographic quality label for the apparel industry.
Claims18
A digitally printed heat transfer label for use on apparel, comprising:
- at least one printed image applied to a substrate layer;
- a polymeric coating, which can stretch at least about 5% and applied over the printed image;
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- an adhesive layer having a powder and applied over the polymeric coating layer and printed image, while the printed image is still wet.
A digitally printed heat transfer label for use on apparel, comprising:
- a release layer applied to a substrate layer;
- at least one digitally printed image applied to the release layer and the substrate layer;
- a polymeric coating, which can stretch at least about 5% and applied over the printed image;
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- an adhesive powder layer having a powder and applied over the polymeric coating layer and printed image, while printed image is still wet.
A method for manufacturing a digitally printed heat transfer label, comprising:
- a sheet or roll-fed process;
- applying a release coating to a substrate;
- printing an image on the substrate;
- applying a polymeric coating which can stretch at least about 5% over the image;
- applying polymeric adhesive powders to the polymeric coating;
- drying the polymeric coating;
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- cooling resulting images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.