Appeal No. 1998-0668
Application 08/036,650
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 20-36.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a process for
transferring a multicolored image of an original onto a
textile substrate by printing as may be understood from
claim 20, reproduced below.
20. A process for transferring a multicolored image of
any original onto a textile substrate by printing
comprising the steps:
(a) printing a color atlas on a test substrate, which
test substrate has the same composition as the textile
substrate, wherein the color atlas comprises color
charts that are composed of color fields wherein
specified volumes of up to three selected printing inks
are printed one on top of the other under specified
printing conditions, which selected printing inks are
selected from a set of printing inks comprising at
least three printing inks;
(b) dividing said multicolored image of the original
into image areas;
(c) determining a color impression for each of the
image areas of the original;
(d) determining the relative volumes of each of the
selected printing inks required to reproduce the color
impression of each image area by comparing the color
impression with the color atlas;
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