A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for overriding requests for a selected communication resource and indicating a different resource for communication. The digital control system converts the pattern data, expressed in terms of a color assignment for each individual pattern element comprising the desired pattern, into a series of logical firing instructions for each applicator as required to reproduce the assigned color on the substrate using one or more process colors. The resultant fabric has a pattern of holes or depressions which are essentially free of binder with excess binder squeezed from the depressions forming rings around the depressions.