Abstract: Various methods for forming dyed microspheres are provided. One method includes attaching a hydrophilic dye to chemical groups to form a bubble. The bubble includes the chemical groups surrounding the hydrophilic dye and an aqueous solution. The chemical groups are soluble in aqueous and organic solvents. The method also includes disposing the bubble and a microsphere to be dyed in a solvent such that the bubble is incorporated into the microsphere thereby dyeing the microsphere. Another method includes adsorbing a hydrophilic dye on a surface of a hydrophobic polymer core of a microsphere to be dyed thereby dyeing the microsphere. The method also includes attaching chemical groups to the hydrophilic dye. The chemical groups are soluble in aqueous and organic solvents. The chemical groups attached to the hydrophilic dye form an enclosure surrounding the hydrophilic dye and an aqueous solution.

Abstract: Calcined kaolin clay pigments having improved color are manufactured by adding a blue agent to the kaolin clay pigment prior to calcination, and then calcining the pigment and blue agent mixture.

Abstract: A pigment dispersion comprising pigment, an aqueous carrier selected from water and a mixture of water and at least one organic solvent, and a pigment dispersant is described. The pigment dispersant has core and arm star-type architecture, and is prepared by controlled radical polymerization, e.g., atom transfer radical polymerization, using (i) arm-core, (ii) arm-core-arm, (iii) core-arm, or (iv) concurrent core and arm methods. The arms of the pigment dispersant each have hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymeric chain segments.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a sulfide of a rare earth and an alkali, a process for its preparation and its use as a colored pigment. The sulfide is characterized in that it has the formula ABS2 where A represents at least one alkali and B represents at least one rare earth and in that it is constituted by grains with an average size of 1.5 &mgr;m at most. The preparation process for the sulfide is characterized in that at least one rare earth carbonate or hydroxycarbonate is brought into the presence of at least one gas selected from hydrogen sulfide or carbon disulfide. The product obtained is optionally deagglomerated. The sulfide can be used as a pigment in plastics, paints, finishes, rubbers, ceramics, glazes, paper, inks, cosmetics, dyes, laminated coatings and materials based on or obtained from at least one inorganic binder.

Abstract: A method for making coated pigment particles by forming a suspension of the desired pigment particles in a medium that also comprises a polymer characterized by having hydrophobic moieties on the polymer backbone and ionic moieties that are present on, or can be formed on a polymer side chain or at the polymer terminals; allowing the suspension of pigment particles to contact said polymer at a temperature above the softening point of the polymer, allowing the resultant suspension to cool to a temperature below the solidification temperature for the polymer while maintaining the pigment particles in suspension, and, if required, forming the ionic moieties.

Abstract: The deliveries to the printing ink industry of pigment preparations in the form of flushed pastes increasingly take the form of containers. Given the required high pigment content of the pastes and the attendant high viscosity and thixotropy, there are very frequent problems with filling the containers and complaints concerning the emptying of the containers. There is a demand for a homogeneous, pumpable pigment paste having a long shelf life. According to the invention, this demand is met in the case of pigments based on arylpararosanillnesulfonic acids by the use of specific aids of the type of the condensation products of aliphatic amines or ammonium compounds with polyesters of hydroxy fatty acids as part of the flushing process of the pigment using the customary or slightly modified binder systems which for the same pigment contents bring about a distinctly lower viscosity and thixotropy. The printing properties are not adversely affected.

Abstract: Pigment preparations whose pigment portion is composed essentially of organic pigments and of pigment additives of the formula I ##STR1## in which P is a radical of an organic pigment and X in the methylene groups of the lactam ring is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, phenyl, hydroxyl, NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 or COOM, m is an integer from 3 to 20 and n can have a value from 0.1 to 4, are suitable for pigmenting high-molecular-weight organic materials in solvent-borne as well as aqueous systems.The pigment preparations have high flocculation stability and good rheological properties.

Abstract: Opal and opal oleate with aniline contents of less than 500 parts per million are prepared by dissolving opal in sulfuric acid and recrystallizing. The recrystallized opal is converted to opal oleate using oleic acid. The opal oleate with low aniline content finds application in the specialty colorants field.

Abstract: Solid pigment formulations containing from 70 to 97% by weight, based on the total weight of the formulation, of one or more pigments and also from 3 to 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the formulation, of at least one surfactant which is an adduct of ethylene oxide and optionally propylene oxide with ethylenediamine, the proportion of ethylene oxide being from 46 to 100% by weight, based on the total weight of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide in the adduct, and the adduct having an average molecular weight of from 5000 to 40,000, are useful for pigmenting printing ink and gloss paint compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to readily storable flushed pastes of pigments of the arylparaosanilinesulfonic acid series, consisting essentially of (a) up to 50% by weight of the pigment, in a binder combination of (b) natural resin esters based on unmodified or modified natural resins with monohydric or polyhydric C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alcohols, and (c) long-oily alkyd resins having an oil content of 60% to 90% by weight dissolved in high-boiling mineral oil. These formulations are prepared from aqueous presscakes of pigment (a) by flushing in the presence of the solution of a mixture of at least one natural resin ester (b) and at least one alkyd resin (c) in mineral oil (d) with elimination of water. The novel pigment formulations are used for producing printing inks for letterpress and offset printing.

Abstract: The alkali blue dry toner comprises 60 to 98 weight percent alkali blue pigment particles, 1 to 20 weight percent of di- and tri-decyl phosphate esters of free acids, and 1-20 weight percent of dehydroabietyl amine. The toner exhibits a high strength and soft texture in comparison with prior art pigment compositions made from similar ingredients.

Abstract: A process for preparing a soft textured high strength Alkali Blue pigment toner comprising preparing an initial mixture from an alkali metal hydroxide, Alkali Blue pigment, resin, oil or varnish, free fatty acid and water and adding a mineral acid to said mixture to precipitate the pigment product.