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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Entrust Corporation, Shakopee, MN (US);
Inventor:
Patrick C. Cronin, Shakopee, MN (US);
Assignee:
Entrust Corporation, Shakopee, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 16/00 (2006.01); B41M 7/00 (2006.01); B41M 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 16/00 (2013.01); B41F 16/0046 (2013.01); B41M 7/0027 (2013.01); B41M 3/14 (2013.01); B41M 2205/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printing process that reduces the amount of flash that occurs when printing to a surface of a plastic card. The printing can occur by a retransfer printing process. The printing process includes generating an image canvas that has rounded corners instead of the conventional right angle corners. The use of rounded corners on the image canvas reduces the amount of printing in the image canvas at the corners compared to an image canvas that has right angle corners, thereby reducing the amount of printing that is present that could form flash at the corners of the card surface.