Patent ID: 8074570

Claim:
A method of printing a row of lottery tickets comprising: in a printing process at a printing facility carrying out all the following steps: providing a substrate in a continuous strip; printing onto the substrate in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a repetitive printing roller one or more base layers; printing onto said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets game data using a first variable image printing system so that the game data of each ticket is different from the game data of a next adjacent ticket in the row; printing onto the game data on said one or more base layers in the continuous strip for each ticket of the row of tickets using a series of repetitive printing rollers a series of covering layers including at least one sealing layer and at least one opaque scratch-off layer so that the game data are hidden from view until exposed by removing said at least one scratch-off layer; printing onto the scratch-off layer in the continuous strip for each of the tickets of the row of tickets a multi-color digital image different from the game data using a second variable image printing system; and using the second variable image printing system to change the image printed so that different images are printed on different tickets of the row.