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

Claim 6:
7. 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 first plurality of different component colors printed by a first printer;
a scratch-off coating covering the variable indicia; and
a display background printed on a second area of the substrate that is outside of a border of the first area, the display background comprising: (a) for each of the first plurality of different component colors of the variable indicia printed by the first printer, a same component color printed at a saturation level of at least 5% by the first printer in a straight line with said component color printed by the first printer in the first area, and (b) an additional component color not present in the variable indicia printed with a saturation of less than 5% by the first printer in the straight line, wherein the additional component color is different than each of the first plurality of different component colors, wherein the straight line is parallel to the side edges of the substrate, wherein the display background is not covered by any scratch off coating, and wherein a continuous printing error by the first printer of not printing a first one of the component colors of the plurality of component colors would extend from the variable indicia into the display background and would not affect the additional component of the display background, and wherein the first plurality of different component colors and the additional component form background artwork in the second area.