The method includes the steps of: applying atmospheric plasma on each area portion of the surface of a metal foil to be treated; increasing the surface free energy of the metal foil, making said surface free energy compatible with the surface tension of the varnish to be applied to the metal foil; applying a UV-cured varnish layer, which may be a oligomer, a monomer or a photo-initiator, having a solids content of 99% to 100% to the surface of the metal foil subjected to the atmospheric plasma; and curing the varnish layer using UV radiation to form a varnish coating adhered to the surface of the metal foil.

Provided is a vehicle coating structure formed on a surface of a base plate of an exterior member of a vehicle. The vehicle coating structure includes: a coating layer formed on the surface of the base plate of the exterior member; a peelable layer formed on a surface of the coating layer or the surface of the base plate, the peelable layer having peelability; and a transparent matte layer formed on a surface of the peelable layer, the transparent matte layer being made of a transparent matte coating material.

The invention relates to a device (100) and method for coating a surface, in particular a surface of a plate-shaped workpiece (W). The device and method can be used, for example, in the field of the furniture and components industry.

A method for plasma treating a target surface of a part, including: obtaining the target surface on the part; placing the part in a chamber of a plasma generator; evacuating the chamber to a pressure of between 10.sup.-6 and 10 mbar; injecting a suitable gas into the chamber until a pressure in the chamber of between 10.sup.-4 and 10.sup.2 mbar is reached; generating an electric current discharge within the chamber, via an electric generator, in order to generate a plasma; exposing the target surface of the part to the plasma for a predefined period of time depending on the power of the electric current discharge, on the gas injected into the chamber and on the material of the target surface, so as to deteriorate the surface condition of the target surface in order to increase the roughness thereof to make the target surface mat or more mat.

Disclosed is a method for treating a grained material. A nonlimiting example of the method includes the operations of providing a workpiece having grains, exasperating a surface of the workpiece to open the grains, applying at least one coat of a base paint to the exasperated surface, applying at least one layer of clear coat on the base paint, applying at least one of a glaze and a paint on the clear coat, and surface treating to reveal grains of the workpiece. Disclosed also are items of furniture and sheet materials treated by the aforementioned process.

An inkjet image printed onto a absorbable coated releasable carrier, transposed and adhered permanently to a surface designed for oil painting on, the removal of the releasable carrier, the exposure of a muted surface which color may be of a ghosted white, with the printed image being hidden from view and an oil being brushed into the ghosted white color surface to reveal the underlying color image, thereafter creating a finished oil painting.

FF properties of a multilayer coating film configured to exhibit a red color through a lustrous layer (14) and a translucent colored layer (15) are improved to achieve a metallic textured color having a high-quality color tone. The lustrous layer (14) is configured such that Y(10) is 50 or more and 950 or less and that Y(25) is 0.05 or more and 0.35 or less times the Y(10), where Y(10) represents a Y value, of an XYZ color system, of reflected light measured at a light receiving angle of 10 and Y(25) represents a Y value of the reflected light measured at the light receiving angle of 25 in a case where a light incident angle is 45. An inclination of a tangent to the spectrum of the spectral transmittance of the colored layer (15) at the wavelength of 620 nm is 0.012 nm.sup.1 or more and 0.03 nm.sup.1 or less, defined as an absolute value.

Disclosed is a method for treating a grained material. A nonlimiting example of the method includes the operations of providing a workpiece having grains, exasperating a surface of the workpiece to open the grains, applying at least one coat of a base paint to the exasperated surface, applying at least one layer of clear coat on the base paint, applying at least one of a glaze and a paint on the clear coat, and surface treating to reveal grains of the workpiece. Disclosed also are items of furniture and sheet materials treated by the aforementioned process.

A component (10) for a motor vehicle has a main body (12) produced from a magnesium material. The main body (12) has a visible surface (14) with an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 1 to 40 m. A clear lacquer coating (40) is disposed on the visible surface (14) of the main body (12) and has a layer thickness of at most 60 m. The clear lacquer coating (40) is applied so that the surface structure (15) of the main body (12) that is disposed below the clear lacquer coating (40) is distinguishable in a visible and haptic manner.

An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a varnish applying unit, a conveying unit, an irradiation unit, and a controller. The controller controls conveyance of a recording material so that a conveying speed of the recording material in a case that varnish is applied to the recording material with a toner image is formed is slower than a conveying speed of the recording material in a case that varnish is applied to the recording material with no toner image. The controller controls irradiation of the varnish with light so that intensity of the light with which the varnish is irradiated in a case that the varnish is applied to the recording material with the toner image is lower than intensity of the light with which the varnish is irradiated in a case that the varnish is applied to the recording material with no toner image.