System and method for lenticular image printing and print media

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9927626-B2
Application number	US-201514948208-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2015
Priority date	Aug 23, 2013
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

A method of forming a lenticle on a substrate includes operating a plurality of inkjets to eject a plurality of ink drops of an optically transparent ink onto a surface of a substrate between a first printed line of an optically opaque ink and a second printed line of the optically opaque ink to form a lenticle from the optically transparent ink, the first printed line being formed substantially parallel to the second printed line with a separation between the first printed line and the second printed line corresponding to a predetermined width of a lenticle to be formed on the substrate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A print medium comprising:
a first substrate having a first side and a second side, the first substrate substantially comprising an optically transparent material;
a first printed line formed on the first side of the first substrate with an optically opaque ink, the first printed line having substantially zero height above the first side of the first substrate;
a second printed line formed on the first side of the first substrate with the optically opaque ink, the second printed line being formed substantially parallel to the first printed line and the second printed line having substantially zero height above the first side of the first substrate; and
a lenticle formed from an optically transparent ink on the first side of the first substrate between the first printed line and the second printed line, the lenticle being formed with a shape to focus light that is directed to the first side of the first substrate to a plurality of locations on the second side of the first substrate.

2. The print medium of claim 1 wherein the transparent ink that forms the lenticle covers a region of the first side of the first substrate between the first printed line and the second printed line with one edge of the lenticle contacting the first printed line and another edge of the lenticle contacting the second printed line.

3. The print medium of claim 2 wherein the transparent ink that forms the lenticle covers the first printed line and the second printed line.

4. The print medium of claim 1 , the first substrate substantially comprising an optically transparent polymer.

5. The print medium of claim 1 wherein the optically transparent ink substantially comprises a phase-change ink.

6. The print medium of claim 1 wherein the optically opaque ink substantially comprises a phase-change ink.

7. The print medium of claim 1 further comprising:
an interleaved printed image formed on the second side of the first substrate.

8. The print medium of claim 1 further comprising:
a second substrate with a first side bearing an interleaved printed image, the first side of the second substrate being adhered to the second side of the first substrate.

Assignees

• Xerox Corp

Inventors

• Liu Chu-Heng
• Mantell David Allen
• Zhou Jing
• Mantell Eli Berkley

Classifications

• B41M3/06

  Veined printings; Fluorescent printings; Stereoscopic images; Imitated patterns, e.g. tissues, textiles · CPC title

• Y10T428/24802

  Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.] · CPC title

• B41M5/0064

  on plastics, horn, rubber, or other organic polymers · CPC title

• G02B3/0012

  characterised by the manufacturing method · CPC title

• B41J3/407

  for marking on special material · CPC title