Patent ID: 9073383
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: B41M,B44C

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: printing at least one of a fixed data or graphic on a first portion of a first transparent support surface of a transparent heat transfer label; coating a second portion of the first transparent support surface with a solid ink block comprising multiple ink layers, the solid ink block and the at least one fixed data or graphic contacting the first transparent support surface on one side while being open and exposed at an opposing side; pressing a support substrate surface against the coated and printed transparent support surface, the support substrate surface either having a chemical facilitating removal of ink from the ink block or being made of a material receptive to ink of the ink block; heat treating selected portions of the coated ink block; and drawing the support substrate away from the coated and printed transparent support surface so as to selectively remove only an exposed top ink layer of the heat treated portions, thereby defining a variable data or graphic remaining on the transparent support surface.