The disclosure concerns an absorbent article(1), such as an incontinent shield, sanitary napkin, panty liner, open-type diaper, pant-type diaper, or the like, having a longitudinal direction(x)and a transverse direction(y). The absorbent article(1)comprises a front portion(3),a rear portion(4), a centre portion(5)located between and bordering to the front and rear portions(3, 4), and a liquid pervious topsheet (10)bonded to an underlying layer by means of a plurality of large and small binding points(16, 17). The small binding points(17)have a surface area in the range of 0.01 -2.5 square millimetres and the large binding points(16)have a surface area above 2.5 square millimetres. A colour printing pattern is visible on a topsheet side of the absorbent article(1). All printed surface area of the colour printing pattern onto which a disc with a diameter of 1.5 millimetres can be mapped without extending beyond a periphery of the printed surface area defines one or more continuous coloured regions(20), and each continuous coloured region (20)within at least the centre portion(5)of the absorbent article(1)is substantially free from large binding points(16).The disclosure also concerns a method for manufacturing a corresponding absorbent article (1).La descripción se refiere a un artículo absorbente (1), tal como un protector para incontinencia, toalla femenina, pantiprotector, pañal tipo abierto, pañal tipo calzón, o lo similar, teniendo una dirección longitudinal (x) y una dirección transversal (y). El artículo absorbente (1) comprende una porción frontal (3), una porción posterior (4), una porción central (5) ubicada entre y adyacente a las porciones, frontal y posterior, (3, 4), y una hoja superior permeable a líquido (10) unida a una capa subyacente por medio de una pluralidad de puntos de unión grandes y pequeños (16, 17). Los puntos de unión pequeños (17) tienen un área de superficie en el rango de 0.01-2.5 milímetros cuadrados y los puntos de unión grandes (16)
