Since digital printing technologies have matured to achieve robustness and consistency, the research development has gradually shifted to applying these printing technologies to an on-demand manufacturing process, i.e. functional printing, which offers various benefits over the traditional manufacturing process such as just-in-time and variable pattern fulfillment. This paper will describe an index-based digital texture printing workflow to accurately deposit one or multiple texture patterns selected from a list of predefined texture patterns at specified areas on a substrate such as paper or plastic/foil using the multilevel halftoning electrophotographic process and KODAK NEXPRESS Dimensional Clear Dry Ink.
Chunghui Kuo, "Index-based Digital Texture Printing Workflow" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP29), 2013, pp 81 - 84, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2013.29.1.art00024_1