Patent ID: 7072733
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: D06B,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A process by which a target design may be assembled on a computer terminal and used to pattern, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the surface of a selected substrate, said process comprising the steps of: a. assembling on said terminal a desired subject image and any desired artistic enhancements into a digitally-defined target design suitable for patterning a specified area on said substrate; b. transmitting, using an electronic communications link, said digitally-defined target design to a remotely-located patterning device comprising an array of individually-addressable liquid colorant applicators; c. transforming electronically said digitally-defined target design into a series of actuation commands to be sent to said array of individually-addressable colorant applicators; and d. actuating selected individually-addressable colorant applicators in accordance with said actuation commands and dispensing, on a pixel-by-pixel basis onto said specified area of said substrate surface, controlled quantities of liquid colorant, thereby forming said digitally-defined target design on said defined area.