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A process and system to fabricate jewelry or curios. A conventional drawing program is used to create, manipulate or input an image. The image is reversed or flipped to make a mirror view of the image. This mirror view of the desired image is then printed on heat shrinkable material base material wh

A process and system to fabricate jewelry or curios. A conventional drawing program is used to create, manipulate or input an image. The image is reversed or flipped to make a mirror view of the image. This mirror view of the desired image is then printed on heat shrinkable material base material which has been specially coated. The sheet of base material with the mirror image is then shrunk utilizing heat. A this point the image can be viewed by looking through the non printed side of base material. Viewing the image through the base material (which is possible because the image is reversed) has been found to create a much sharper image. The printed side of the resulting curio is coated with a transparent material in order to add water fastness and durability. Finally the printed side of the curio is coated with an opaque white coating. It has been found that applying this opaque coating dramatically increases the quality of the image when the curio is placed on a dark background material.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A process for making a curio having the steps of:forming an image using a computerized drawing program,generating a mirror view of said image,printing said mirror view on a heat-shrinkable base material which has been coated to make said printed mirror view adhere to said base mater

[ I claim:] [1.] A process for making a curio having the steps of:forming an image using a computerized drawing program,generating a mirror view of said image,printing said mirror view on a heat-shrinkable base material which has been coated to make said printed mirror view adhere to said base material,heating said base material to shrink said base material and said printed mirror view,coating said shrunk printed mirror view with a layer of transparent varnish adapted to preserve said base material and said shrunk printed mirror view, andcoating said layer of transparent varnish with an opaque white paint to improve the appearance of said shrunk printed mirror view,wherein said shrunk printed mirror view can be viewed through said heat-shrinkable base material against the contrast of said opaque white paint.