Patent ID: 8605322
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: B41J,B41M,G03G,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for printing data on a substrate comprising a color-changeable material, the system comprising: a first data source configured to provide variable data to be printed on the substrate, wherein the variable data comprises, for a print process comprising a plurality of print operations, data that is changed between at least two of the plurality of print operations; a processing circuit; and a device comprising an energy source; wherein at least a portion of a printed publication is printed on the substrate using a commercial printing press based on fixed data received from a second data source, wherein the fixed data comprises data that is common to all of the plurality of print operations of the print process; wherein the device comprising the energy source is configured to add variable data to the substrate after at least a portion of the printed publication has been printed on the substrate using the commercial printing press based on the fixed data, wherein the processing circuit is configured to retrieve the variable data from the data source and to control the energy source to change a color of the color-changeable material based on the retrieved variable data to provide at least a portion of the printed publication; and wherein the processing circuit is configured to control the energy source to change the color of the color-changeable material in-line with a flow of the substrate through one of a printing line, a finishing line, or a packaging line of the commercial printing press.