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Dieter Jancart

Jens Lenaerts

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Johan August Loccufier

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Guido Fransen

Pantelis Yiannakou

Mark Donders

Angela Maliali

A manufacturing method of decorated natural leather including the steps of: attaching a crusted leather () with its corium side by an adhesive () to a temporary carrier (); inkjet printing the crusted leather () on its grain side with one or more pigmented inkjet inks; wherein the surface area of the temporary carrier () is larger than the surface area of the crusted leather ().

Decorated natural leather

A manufacturing method of decorated natural leather includes applying a base coat on crusted leather, inkjet printing a decorative image on the base coat using one or more pigmented inkjet inks, and applying one or more identification codes.

A manufacturing method for decorating natural leather with a decorative image includes applying on a crusted leather a base coat containing a pigment for providing a chromatic colour or an achromatic colour different from black, inkjet printing a colour image on the base coat using one or more pigmented UV curable inkjet inks, optionally applying a protective top coat on the image, and optionally applying a heat pressing or embossing step, wherein the chromatic colour or the achromatic colour different from black of the base coat and the inkjet printed colour image are used in combination to provide the decorative image.

Decorating natural leather

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Mortsel, Belgium

Dieter Jancart