Method and apparatus for making a graphic product
CA 2108516 C · Owner: Voelker, Martin C. · Inventors: Voelker, Martin C.; Logan, David J.; Stempien, Joseph W.
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A method and apparatus for preparing graphic products utilizes a printer to print on sheet material and a cutter to cut the sheet material with the printed material within the periphery of the cut edges. Both the printer and the cutter are controlled by machine readable data having a common data base so that the printed material and the cut material correspond positionally in the final graphic product. The printer is a thermal printer that places the printed material on a strip of sheet material generally before the sheet material is cut The thermal printer utilizes a donor web bearing a transfer ink to create enhanced printed images on the sheet material with half tones color and other …
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- Filed October 15, 1993 and granted February 8, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 15, 2013.
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