Patent ID: 6935235

Claim:
A method for applying printing ink to a printing material, which comprises producing ink-conducting and ink-repelling areas on an at least approximately flat surface; producing a plurality of areas with defined color acceptor properties for producing the ink-conducting areas on the surface; bringing the surface into contact with color particles, including a subgroup selected from the group consisting of dyes, pigments, colored molecules and colored particles, at least one of the subgroups colored molecules and pigments having surface acceptor properties corresponding to the color acceptor properties of the areas; providing the at least one of the subgroups colored molecules and pigments as a mixture in a container for transferring the color particles to the surface; depositing the at least one of the subgroups colored molecules and pigments on the areas of defined color acceptor properties of the surface corresponding to the surface acceptor property thereof; and transferring the deposited at least one of the subgroups colored molecules and pigments from the surface to a printing material.