Patent ID: 7465695

Claim:
In a method of manufacturing a printed textile ribbon, the method including applying at least on one side of the ribbon a printed image having at least one or more colors, and simultaneously producing on the one side of the ribbon a figure in a color which deviates from the color of the printed image; the improvement comprising manufacturing a web which will later form the ribbon with the desired figure from two different materials, wherein a first ribbon material which is capable of connecting to sublimation colors extends over all surface areas of the one side of the ribbon in which the printed image is to appear with the exception of the figure, while a second ribbon material is provided in that area of the figure which does not absorb or insufficiently absorbs the sublimation colors; pressing and heating the printed image without the figure in a digital printing technology by means of sublimation colors against the web, such that the sublimation colors are absorbed by receptive areas on the one side of the web and form the printed image on the one side of the web, wherein the materials formed by the second ribbon material and not interacting with the sublimation colors come into contact with the sublimation colors but do not absorb the sublimation colors, so that the color of the figure on the web remains unchanged.