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Abstract

A sheet of material having a single color of ink or other printing medium applied thereto to produce a multicolor appearance. In the disclosed embodiment, the sheet material is a metallic foil, such as alluminum foil of thin flexible construction, used as a flower pot wrap with the foil being laminated to a thin plastic film or sheet of polypropylene or the like. The printing technique which produces a multicolor appearance uses a conventional printing apparatus with one print station being employed with the multicolor effect resulting from different thicknesses of ink of the same color being laid onto the substrate surface thereby providing a color applied in varying intensities to produce a multicolor effect or appearance when using a single color ink at a single print station as compared with conventional techniques of printing several colors onto sheet material with the printing press including individual printing stations for each color required with each printing station being provided with ink of the color desired with the colors being individually matched to the color standard required and each print station being kept in register by adjustments on the printing press and each printing station requiring an individually made and mounted print cylinder or other printing device. With this technique, the multicolor appearance produced by using a single color at a single printing station materially reduces the cost and time involved in producing the multicolor appearance on the sheet material.

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First Claim