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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Michel Tollhupp, Beaune, FR;
Michel Tollhupp, Beaune, FR;
Gaming Partners International, Savigny les Beaune, FR;
Abstract
Sublimable pad-printing ink and a method of marking an object with the ink, wherein the ink includes a hardening transparent pad-printing ink base and at least one sublimable colored pigment. The hardening transparent pad-printing ink base resists a sublimation temperature of the at least one sublimable colored pigment. The method includes pad-printing the object with a marking that includes a monochrome or polychrome marking composition having at least one monocolor pigmented component including fine particles of at least one sublimable monocolor colored pigment and heating at least one of the object and the pad-printed marking composition.