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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2007
Dion Grotkowski, Pinckney, MI (US);
Michael John Brickwood, Winnipeg, CA;
Andrew Wojtowicz, Winnipeg, CA;
Lyle Harold Scrymgeour, Oakbank, CA;
Dion Grotkowski, Pinckney, MI (US);
Michael John Brickwood, Winnipeg, CA;
Andrew Wojtowicz, Winnipeg, CA;
Lyle Harold Scrymgeour, Oakbank, CA;
PoUard Banknote Limited Partnership, Winnipeg, MB, CA;
Abstract
In a row of lottery tickets each ticket has variable image printing game data printed onto a base layer on a substrate and a series of covering layers including at least one sealing layer and at least one scratch-off layer. Onto the scratch-off layer is a multi-color digital image for each ticket using a variable image printing system. At least part of the scratch-off layer can be left free from printed overlay graphics and the multi-color digital image can be printed subsequently at a different location from the ticket manufacturing location. The graphics can indicate different values for different ones of the tickets. The tickets in the row can be of different lengths and the graphics can be different for different length ones of the tickets.