Methods for printing unidirectional and see-through graphics
Abstract
A convenient, time-efficient, easy-to-use method for creating a substrate covering comprising graphic images, such that the substrate covering can be substantially opaque to an observer looking from one side of the substrate (allowing him to see an image), yet the observer is able to see through the substrate covering from the other side of the substrate, or such that an observer would be able to see the images as well as objects beyond the substrate, comprising the steps of creating an outline for the substrate covering (501); creating at least one artwork (502); launching a window wizard, which allows a user to select the position of the covering with respect to the substrate; at least one artwork; and at least one primer in accordance with the desired visual effects (503); selecting the position of the covering with respect to the substrate; at least one artwork; and at least one primer in accordance with the desired visual effects (504); and sending the window wizard output for printing onto a substantially clear laminate that could be applied to the substrate (505), wherein stacked layers of the selected artwork and selected primers are printed with perforations onto said laminate, wherein the perforations of the stacked layers are aligned.

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- 1535750
- Application
- 42927673
Titles3
- German
- Verfahren zum Drucken unidirektionaler und durchsichtiger Graphiken
- English
- Methods for printing unidirectional and see-through graphics
- French
- Methode pour imprimer des graphiques unidirectionelles et transparentes
Classification
- CPC, 7
- B44C1/16
- B41M3/148
- B44F1/06
- Y10T428/14
- Y10T428/24736
- Y10T428/2457
- Y10T428/24612
- IPC, 9
- B42D15 00
- B44F1 06
- B05D1 32
- B32B1 00
- B32B3 00
- B32B3 30
- B32B33 00
- B41M3 14
- B44C1 00
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- Austria
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- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
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- Spain
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- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
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- Ireland
- Iceland
- Italy
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- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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- Romania
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- Slovakia
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- Extension states, 6
- Albania
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- North Macedonia
- Yugoslavia, later Serbia and Montenegro (until 2006)