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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2019
Agfa NV, Mortsel, BE;
Rudi Lamproye, Mortsel, BE;
Peter Frings, Mortsel, BE;
Agfa NV, Mortsel, BE;
Abstract
An inkjet printing method for manufacturing a decorative surface comprising staggered decorative laminate panels including the steps of: i) digitally dividing a first master image () into decorative laminate panel images (); ii) digitally staggering neighbouring decorative laminate panel images () over a selected staggering distance () having a value between L/2 and L/20 with L representing the length of a decorative laminate panel; iii) digitally composing a second master image () from the neighbouring staggered decorative laminate panel images (); iv) printing the second master image () with one or more inkjet inks on a substrate, wherein the substrate is a paper substrate and the one or more inkjet inks are aqueous pigmented inkjet inks printed on the substrate before or after impregnation with a thermosetting resin; or wherein the one or more inkjet inks are UV curable inkjet inks and the substrate is a thermoplastic substrate based on a material selected from the group consisting of polyvinylchloride (PVC), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene-terephthalate (PET) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and combinations thereof.