Patent ID: 8178187
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: B44C,B44F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An article having a surface protected by a decorative layer comprising a wholly united layer of an ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite absorbed in an ink pattern, the ink pattern absorbing the hardening resin to provide said united layer as a single layer of the combined ink pattern and hardening resin, said united layer being applied to said surface by transfer under water pressure and hardened by ultraviolet irradiation, said ink pattern including adjacent abutting ink pattern portions formed of ink containing ink pigment, said hardening resin being absorbed by said ink portions in amounts corresponding with the amount of ink pigment in said ink pattern portions, one of which contains ink pigment that absorbs greater amounts of hardening resin and the other of which contains ink pigment that absorbs lesser amounts of hardening resin, said adjacent ink pattern portions respectively containing corresponding greater and lesser amounts of absorbed hardening resin, said ink pattern portions containing greater amounts of absorbed hardening resin having a low gloss and said ink pattern portions containing lesser amounts of absorbed hardening resin having a high gloss as compared with said low gloss.