Patent ID: 7396800

Claim:
A sublimation ink carrier media comprising: a support sheet having a planar surface, said sheet and planar surface having a machine direction and a substantially perpendicular cross direction, said support sheet being substantially non-extensible in said machine direction; a polymer film having opposite first and second planar surfaces, said film and said film first and second planar surfaces having a machine direction and a substantially perpendicular cross direction, the first planar surface of said film being attached to the planar surface of the support sheet such that the machine directions of said support sheet and said polymer film are substantially aligned; a sublimation ink printed in a pattern on the second planar surface of said film; wherein when said polymer film is peelable from the planar surface of the support sheet, said polymer film is substantially non-extensible in the machine direction when the film is attached to the support sheet, said polymer film is extensible in the machine and cross directions after being peeled from said carrier support sheet, and said polymer film has a melting temperature of at least 190° C.