Patent ID: 11944913
Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 3:
4. A lottery ticket comprising:
a substrate having opposing side edges and opposing end edges;
variable indicia printed on a first area of the substrate, the variable indicia comprising a plurality of different component colors printed by a first printer;
a background printed on a second area of the substrate adjacent to the first area and outside of a border of the first area, the background comprising: (a) for each of the plurality of different component colors of the variable indicia printed by the first printer on the first area of the substrate, a same corresponding component color printed by the first printer at a saturation level of at least 5%, and (b) an additional component color not present in the variable indicia printed with a saturation of less than 5% by the first printer, wherein the additional component color is different than each of the plurality of different component colors, wherein the first plurality of different component colors and the additional component form background artwork in the second area,
wherein the plurality of different component colors of the variable indicia printed by the first printer and the additional component color are all aligned in a straight line parallel to the side edges of the substrate such that a continuous printing error by the first printer of not printing a first one of the component colors of the plurality of different component colors in the first area would extend in a straight line parallel to the side edges of the substrate into the background on the second area but would not affect the additional component of the background; and
a scratch-off coating covering the variable indicia.