PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONALLY EXPANDING AND PRINTINGA PICTURE IMAGE

A programmable system for dimensionally expanding and printing a picture ima ge on a printable sheet preferably having a canvas texture for use in making a picture print thermoforming female mold of castible shrinkable material, the programmable system comprising: i) a programmable computer having a memory in which the picture image is digitally stored, ii) a computer driven printer having a moveable printing head for printing the picture image on a sheet as the printing head moves relative to a canvas-textured sheet; iii) the computer having a program for dimensionally expanding a picture image stored in the memory, the program expanding a stored picture image from. a) an original dimensional size having a length and a width identical to a final picture print size on a thermoformable plastic sheet to be molded in such female mold, and to b) an expanded dimensional size having an expanded length and width equal to an extent to which such female mold of such castible shrinkable material shrinks from its original poured state to its hardened state; iv) the computer being actuated to drive the printer to print such expanded image onto the sheet.