Patent ID: 8062477

Claim:
A method of forming a moulded and printed product from pulp material comprising the steps of: forming a pre-form mould to have at least one of the following: planar surfaces, compound conjoined planar surfaces and two dimensional curved surfaces; transferring an amount of pulp slurry material to said pre-form mould; forming a moulded pre-form from said transferred pulp slurry material, said moulded pre-form having at least one of the following: planar surfaces, compound conjoined planar surfaces and two dimensional curved surfaces; applying printing to said at least one of said planar and dimensional curved surfaces of said pre-form in a pre-distorted configuration, said step of applying printing using at least one of the following: letter press printing, in-mould printing where a pre-printed piece of film or label is inserted into said pre-form mould which is then transferred to said pulp pre-form by at least one of heat, pressure and adhesive, therimage heat transfer, pad printing and screen printing; and one of moulding and re-moulding the printed pre-form to a final shape whereby said printed surfaces retain said printing without running and said printing conforms to a desired post distortion configuration.