Patent ID: 6295928
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: B41C

Abstract:
A method for producing a print image on a carrier material, comprising the steps of:defining ink-attracting areas and areas to be ink-repellant on a surface of a print carrier in conformity with a structure of the print image to be printed,providing the areas to be ink-repellant with a layer of an ink-repellant medium to form ink-repellant areas,supplying ink onto the surface, said ink adhering to the ink-attracting areas and being not picked up by the ink-repellant areas,printing the ink distributed on the surface onto the carrier material,using a substance in its solid phase as the ink-repellant medium in said ink-repellant areas,cooling the surface of the print carrier to produce the solid phase of the substance on the surface of the print carrier,wherein the substance on the surface of the print carrier is water.