Abstract: The present invention provides a recording material comprising a plastic layer and an ink receiving layer sequentially laminated on a supporting body in such a manner that the supporting body and the plastic layer are delaminatable. By having such a structure, the recording material enables high-quality printing even when printing such as inkjet printing is performed on a substrate which is composed of a resin other than PVC. It also exhibits excellent scratch resistance and tamper resistance. The invention also provides a method for easily and productively manufacturing a printed matter or a card using such a recording material.

Abstract: A housing includes a substrate and a decorative layer formed on one surface of the substrate. The decorative layer includes two colored ink coatings, each of which is partially interlaced with the other and has a color depth decreasing from one end thereof towards the other colored ink coating to another end thereof and partially mixed with the other colored ink coating.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording medium which has an excellent ink absorbability, suppresses an ink blur, and has an improved surface glossiness, and a process for manufacturing the medium. The invention provides a process for manufacturing an inkjet recording medium having an ink image-receiving layer having a porous structure on at least one surface of a support, in which the process comprises forming an ink image-receiving layer having a porous structure on at least one surface of the support, and calendar-treating the support having the ink image-receiving layer with a long nip calendar comprising a metal roll and a shoe roll, and a synthetic resin belt therebetween and having a nip width of 10 mm or more. The invention also provides an inkjet recording medium manufactured by the process.

Abstract: A printing sheet of this invention includes a substrate sheet and a printing layer which is formed on a surface of the substrate sheet and contains a semi-solidified plaster precursor. Printing is effected on the surface of the printing layer by using, for example, an ink-jet printer. Upon effecting the printing by using the printing sheet, a highly durable image can be vividly formed featuring rugged feeling and painting-like deepness.

Abstract: An ink jettable overprint composition includes at least one of a polymerizable monomer and/or a polymerizable oligomer; at least one photoinitiator; and at least one wax.

Abstract: The present invention provides textile articles of commerce and their production via a method for applying a sparkling reflective, luminescent, semi-metallic, or metallic image to a receptor element having valleys or pores, which comprises the steps of (i) providing a transfer sheet comprising a support having a first surface and a second surface and having printable ink receiving media as a top layer for recording a positive or negative sparkling, reflective, luminescent, semi-metallic, or metallic image comprising a sparkly reflective, luminescent, semi-metallic or metallic substrate coated with a semi-opaque or opaque primarily inorganic and/or organic polymeric porous particles and a binder containing ink-receptive layer that is rendered semi-translucent or translucent upon recording of an ink image, and a coating capable of receiving an image on the first or second surface of the support, (ii) imaging the coating with a positive or negative image, (iii) dry peeling the coating from the support in the abs

Abstract: The present invention relates to a material intended for forming or printing images, comprising a support and at least one hydrophilic binder-based layer, and its manufacturing method, said method enabling the gelation process of the hydrophilic binder to be controlled. The material according to the invention is characterized in that in at least one of said hydrophilic binder-based layers, said hydrophilic binder is gelated by complexation with a complexing agent present on a heat-sensitive polymer or copolymer, that is hydrophobic at temperatures higher than its lower critical solution temperature LCST to protect the complexing agent, and water-soluble at temperatures less than its LCST to make the complexing agent accessible, the LCST of the heat-sensitive (co)polymer being higher than the setting temperature of said hydrophilic binder. The material according to the invention can be used as photographic material or as material taking aqueous ink compositions applied by the inkjet printing technique.

Abstract: Fusible print media, systems for preparing a fused ink-jet image, and methods of preparing a fused ink-jet image, are provided. One exemplary fusible print medium, among others, includes a substrate and an ink-receiving layer disposed on the substrate. The ink-receiving layer includes a first layer having ultrafine polymer particles and a second layer having hollow beads.

Abstract: An ink jet recording media system is described which comprises at least one coating layer that comprises a zwitterionic polymer or oligomer. The media system exhibits excellent light fastness as well as good dry time and good image-forming properties.

Abstract: A printing medium with which various kinds of information relating to the printing medium can be held on the printing medium itself, an element provided in or on that printing medium, a printing apparatus for printing on that printing medium, and a computer system having such a printing apparatus and a computer main unit connected to that printing apparatus are realized. The printing medium has an element on which information can be written by the printing apparatus.

Abstract: To provide an ideal inkjet recording method capable of full-color printing and of inexpensively providing prints that have a texture similar to those of commercial prints and that offer excellent print quality, image density, image fidelity and smear resistance, by combining a specific recording media and a specific pigment-based inkjet ink. The inkjet recording method uses an ink containing particulate coloring material for printing on a media that includes a substrate composed primarily of cellulose pulp and one or more coated layers formed on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the media has an air permeability of 0.1 ml/min to 30 ml/min as measured using a Parker Print-Surf.

Abstract: A transfer paper for use in dry transfer printing in witch a transfer paper is pressed with heating against a natural or synthetic fibrous material to transfer an ink thereto. It is characterized in that it is produced by applying a water-soluble dye ink to a transfer paper having a release agent layer and an ink-receiving layer overlying the layer and the ink-receiving layer comprises a hydrophilic synthetic resin and a hydrophilic adhesive, the hydrophilic adhesive being contained in an amount of 1-50 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the hydrophilic synthetic resin. Also provided is a method of dry transfer printing characterized by pressing the transfer paper for dry transfer printing against a natural or synthetic fibrous material with heating to thereby transfer the water-soluble dye ink applied to the transfer paper to the fibrous material and subsequently fixing the ink.

Abstract: An additive used in a print medium to reduce bronzing. The additive increases a pH of the print medium. The additive is an organic base or an inorganic base. The additive reduces bronzing of an image printed with a dye-based inkjet ink.

Abstract: Silica-based, chemically-bonded porous coatings, synthesized via the reaction of organo silanes with silica, are used as coatings for inkjet image printing. Silica is used as the base material in all cases, due to its favorable chemical properties of the surface, and the favorable pore structure. The silane-silica reaction product substantially retains the original pore structure of the pre-reacted silica. The disclosed embodiments solve the problems in the prior art in that any catalytic activity of the silica surface towards image fade is eliminated by the chemical modification of silica. This improves the image fade and humid fastness properties of the coating.

Abstract: An ink jet recording medium is disclosed which includes, on a support, at least one ink receiving layer and a colloidal silica layer containing a cationic compound and a compound having an amine oxide group in this order.

Abstract: Novel and innovative PCC pigments, having a reduced production cost, able to be used in a paper coating formulations to manufacture coated high-quality matt papers, in particular for inkjet applications. Process for the preparation of same, using a reduced flow rate of a carbon dioxide-containing gas in the PCC carbonation step, which produces stable, porous, agglomerates of PCC featuring unique properties and structure, this step being followed by an upconcentration step to increase the solids content.

Abstract: A fluorescent recorded image and an image forming method capable of achieving the compatibility between fluorescence intensity and recorded matter density are provided. The image is composed of multiple layers formed from fluorescent ink, or preferably fluorescent ink containing a surfactant. The method includes superimposing the fluorescent ink to form the fluorescent image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inkjet recording element having good stability to light and ozone over time. Said recording element comprises a support and at least one ink-receiving layer, said ink-receiving layer comprising at least one hydrosoluble binder and at least one fibrous aluminosilicate polymer obtainable a preparation method consisting in a controlled hydrolysis of aluminum halide and silicon alcoxide, and in a heat treatment in the presence of silanol groups for sufficient time to form the fibrous aluminosilicate polymer.

Abstract: The invention is to provide an aqueous ink, a recorded image and a recording method capable of improving an image fastness and a color-developing property of a recorded image, and is featured in that components of the aqueous ink are so prepared as to realize, at least on a surface portion of a recording medium, a fixed state of an ink droplet in which a contour portion of a second coloring material is formed around a central portion in which a first coloring material is fixed.

Abstract: A media sheet can comprise a media substrate, an ink receiving layer applied as a coating to at least one surface of the substrate, and a UV protection layer applied as a coating to the ink receiving layer. The ink receiving layer can include hollow particulates, and the UV protection layer can include UV absorbing latex particulates. This media substrate can be used in a system wherein a dye-based ink-jet ink is printed thereon, and a fusion system is configured to fuse UV protection layer and the ink receiving layer after printing of the ink-jet ink, thereby forming an ink-jet image with high image quality, air fastness, and light stability.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor includes a support and an ink-receptive layer containing a microcapsule.

Abstract: A coating for a substrate is formed by milling cationic pigment particles in the presence of a water-soluble polymer, where the water-soluble polymer acts as a binder and a dispersant for the cationic pigment particles.

Abstract: Papers are provided which exhibit rapid ink setting and ink drying. These papers include a topcoat layer, and a penultimate coating layer that draws ink through the topcoat layer. In some implementations, the penultimate coating layer includes a high internal pore volume filler, and/or has a fine external pigment pore structure.

Abstract: An image recording medium has a substrate having a hot melt extruded ink-receiving layer formed on a first side of the substrate. The ink-receiving layer includes at least 50% of a hydrogel by weight. The hydrogel is capable of absorbing at least 50% of its dry weight of water.

Abstract: A porous polymeric ink-jet receiver prepared by generating an emulsion comprising a first phase having a first carrier fluid and a second phase having a second carrier fluid, said first and second carrier fluids being immiscible; coating the emulsion onto a support; carrying out a first treatment to at least one component of the first phase to form and/or maintain a skeletal structure of the treated at least one component of the first phase; and carrying out a second treatment to the second phase to substantially remove the carrier fluid thereby generating a large capacity porous structure defined by the skeletal structure is capable of rapid uptake of large quantities of ink, especially when using a high internal phase water-in-oil emulsion.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink jet recording medium package comprising a main body, a flap, and a self-adhesive layer, wherein the main body accommodates an ink jet recording medium and has an opening through which the ink jet recording medium is taken out, the flap closes the opening, the self-adhesive layer allows repeated adhesion of the main body to the flap, and the self-adhesive layer is composed of an olefin-based elastomer.

Abstract: An active ray curable composition, including an epoxy compound which is represented by Formula (A) and an oxetane compound, The active ray curable compound exhibiting a viscosity of 1 to 500 mPa·s at 25° C.

Abstract: A composite sheet of individual rectangular media cards for ink jet and laser printers includes a rectangular card stock sheet, and an adhesive releasably adhering the card stock sheet to a liner. Widthwise and lengthwise media card definition cuts extend through the card stock sheet but not the linear to define the media cards. Spaced-apart liner flex cuts are formed aligned with at least one lengthwise media definition cut and spaced from adjacent corners of adjacent media cards.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet ink, an ink-jet recording material or an ink-jet system containing at least one water-soluble hindered amine compound of the general formula (I): wherein G1 and G2 are independently alkyl 1 to 4 carbon atoms or are together pentamethylene; Z1 and Z2 are each methyl, or Z1 and Z2 together form an unsubstituted linking moiety or a linking moiety substituted by one or more groups selected from an ester, ether, hydroxy, oxo, cyanohydrin, amide, amino, carboxy or an urethane group; E is alkoxy of 1 to 18 carbon atoms, cycloalkoxy of 5 to 12 carbon atoms or aralkoxy of 7 to 15 carbon atoms, or E is —O-T-(OH)b; T is a straight or branched chain alkylene of 1 to 18 carbon atoms, cycloalkylene of 5 to 18 carbon atoms, cycloalkenylene of 5 to 18 carbon atoms, a straight or branched chain alkylene of 1 to 4 carbon atoms substituted by phenyl or by phenyl substituted by one or two alkyl groups of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; b is 1, 2 or 3 with the proviso that b cannot exceed the

Abstract: Pigment suitable for use in coating compositions for inkjet recording media. Surfaces of an inorganic particulate are interacted with a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt in an aqueous medium. The treated particle surfaces have a significant cationic surface charge imparted to them. The salt is a salt of a metal of Group II or Group III of the Periodic Table. Inkjet recording media treated with a coating composition containing the above pigment provide high density, fast-drying, and non-feathering ink images with suitable water fastness, while the coating compositions also offer cost advantages and improved rheology at higher pigment levels over coatings based on silica pigments.

Abstract: The invention relates to an in-line coated, biaxially oriented polyester film in which at least one surface has a coating formed from the dried residue of an aqueous coating composition, where the aqueous coating composition includes from 1 to 20% by weight (based on the weight of the coating composition) of EAA (ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer) particles whose median particle size (d50 value) is from 1 to 200 ?m.

Abstract: An ink receptive article including a substrate having applied on at least a portion thereof a layer of an ink receptive coating, wherein the ink receptive coating layer includes a cross-linked polymer and an ink absorbing polymer, wherein the ink absorbing polymer has a solubility parameter of equal to or less than 9 (cal/cm3)1/2.

Abstract: A composition for forming a receiving layer for inkjet printing is provided. The composition, which is a solution or dispersion of a binder resin and a water-containing synthetic silica obtained by a wet gelling method in a solvent containing 10-80% by weight of alcohol, has a low viscosity, exhibits excellent applicability, can adsorb a large amount of ink, and can form a hard receiving layer suitable for inkjet printing. A method of manufacturing the composition and a recording sheet for inkjet printing having a receiving layer formed from the composition are also provided.

Abstract: A printing medium and a printing method thereof, for a photo printer using the printing medium, wherein the printing medium includes a printing region, and a first tab region and a second tab region extending from both tabs of the printing region in a lengthwise direction and having different lengths from each other, and having a direction display unit formed in a penetrated manner in any one of the first tab region and the second tab region and displaying an inserting direction. The printing medium can also include an ID display unit including a plurality of slits formed in any one of the first tab region and the second tab region in order to display information regarding the printing medium.

Abstract: Ink jet printing paper capable of providing, by using a low permeablity or a nonpermeable supporting sheet, a high surface glossiness and a high dot reproducibility of a silver halide photograph level, an excellent absorptivity of ink, and a high recording density, and preventing cockling by ink solvent, comprising the low permeablity or the nonpermeable supporting sheet, at least one ink receiving layer coated on the supporting sheet, and a luster layer coated on the ink receiving layer, the ink receiving layer in contact with the luster layer comprising pigment, as a main component, having a specific surface area-based mode diameter of pore distribution of 100 nm or less and an average secondary particle size of 1.3 ?m or less, and the luster layer comprising pigment, as a main component, having an average primary particle size of 5 to 100 nm.

Abstract: An ink jet recording medium including an ink receiving layer disposed on at least one side of a support, wherein the ink receiving layer is formed by applying an ink receiving layer coating solution. The ink receiving layer coating solution includes a water-soluble resin and a fine silica dispersion that has been prepared by finely dispersing a preliminary silica dispersion. The preliminary silica dispersion includes fumed silica, a cationic polymer having an I/O value of 2.4 or less, and alcohol.

Abstract: An improved ink-jet recording material is disclosed comprising a support and at least one ink receiving layer containing a water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer, characterized in that said polymer comprises a repeating monomeric unit having a moiety capable of chelating boric acid by means of at least one nitrogen containing functional group and at least one hydroxyl group thereby forming a five- or six-membered ring.

Abstract: A printing medium includes: a rectangular lens sheet that has a surface formed in a predetermined lens shape; and a thin base that is fixed to a rear surface of the lens sheet on which no lens is formed and has an extending portion extending from one side of the lens sheet to the outside. In the printing medium, when a region corresponding to the rear surface of the lens sheet is referred to as a unit region, the extending portion includes a plurality of unit regions adjacent to one another with adjacent portions, which are common sides, interposed therebetween, and a first printing surface and a second printing surface having predetermined images formed thereon are formed in corresponding unit regions on one surface of the base that is fixed to the rear surface of the lens sheet or the other surface of the base. In addition, at least one unit region is additionally interposed between the unit region where the first printing surface is formed and the unit region where the second printing surface is formed.

Abstract: A plurality of unit areas (bit) B are set on a base board. A liquid drop made of a liquid member is ejected to the unit area B from a liquid drop ejecting head so as to form a layer on the base board. A first pattern is formed by a first nozzle group Na in nozzles N which are formed in the liquid drop ejecting head. A second pattern is formed by a second nozzle group Nb which is different from the first nozzle group Na. By doing this, it is possible to maintain a stable ejection operation so as to form a pattern in preferable accuracy when patterns having different features are formed on the base board by using the liquid drop ejecting apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention is a decorative laminated article including an image bearing thermoplastic interlayer wherein the image has been printed on the interlayer using an ink jet printing process, wherein the image includes a white pigment on the surface of the thermoplastic interlayer. The present invention is also a process for ink-jet printing white pigment ink on a thermoplastic polymer to obtain an image bearing laminate with good adhesive qualities.

Abstract: Ink jettable, radiation curable overprint compositions containing at least one radiation curable oligomer/monomer, at least one photoinitiator, and at least one surfactant are disclosed. The overprint compositions are particularly well-suited for protecting ink-based and toner-based images on substrates subjected to abrasives, heat, and/or sunlight since the compositions protect such images from smearing, cracking, and fading.

Abstract: A method of producing ink-jet printed images with high resistance to physical and chemical damage on plastic surfaces, by coating the plastic object with an inkjet receptive layer comprising a mixture of hydrophilic polymers and UV curable pre-polymers deposited from an emulsion, ink-jetting an image onto the coating using ink-jet ink comprising a colorant and aqueous carrier, warming the printed surface to drive part of the water in the ink into the surface coating and to evaporate the other part of the water, UV curing the dried surface and over-coating the UV cured surface with lacquer or with lamination material.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing a nozzle plate which includes a nozzle having a tapered section and a linear section includes the steps of: forming an etching stopper layer for stopping dry etching of a silicon substrate, on a first surface of the silicon substrate; forming a mask layer on a second surface of the silicon substrate reverse to the first surface; performing a first patterning process with respect to the mask layer so that an opening section is formed in the mask layer; carrying out the dry etching of the silicon substrate through the opening section in the mask layer so that the tapered section of the nozzle is formed in the silicon substrate; carrying out dry etching of the etching stopper layer through the opening section in the mask layer so that at least a part of the linear section of the nozzle is formed in the etching stopper layer; and removing the mask layer.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an image-recording material that may prevent a flocculation of a coating liquid for image-recording layer that contains a water-dispersible emulsion and a water-soluble polymer compound, and that may exhibit an enhanced stability, present an improved film-forming performance, and provide superior surface conditions. In order to achieve the object, an image-recording material according to the present invention is provided, in which the image-recording material comprises a support and at least one image-recording layer on the support, wherein the image-recording layer is formed from a water-dispersible emulsion of which volume-average particle size is 55 nm or more and a water-soluble polymer compound of which weight-average molecular weight (Mw) is 400,000 or less. Preferably, the water-dispersible emulsion is a polyester emulsion. Preferably, the water-soluble polymer compound is polyethyleneoxide.

Abstract: Pyrogenically produced aluminum-silicon mixed oxides with a BET surface of more than 300 m2/g and a composition of 0.01 to 99.99% by wt. AI2O3, remainder SiO2 are produced in accordance with the method of flame pyrolysis or preferably flame hydrolysis by a joint combustion of the gaseous raw substances. They can be used to produce coating colors, especially for inkjet papers or inkjet foils or other inkjet materials.

Abstract: The present invention is a decorative glass laminate comprising a rigid interlayer bearing a printed image that has been ink-jetted onto at least one of the interlayer surfaces, and a process for preparing same. The interlayer has a storage young's modulus of 50–1000 Mla at 0.3 Hz and 25 C, as determined according to ASTM D 5026-95a and a finite thickness of less than equal to about 0.38 mm.

Abstract: An ink jet recording medium having an ink receiving layer formed on a substrate, wherein an ink fixing agent contained in the ink receiving layer is a serpentine compound containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mg and Zn, and an ink fixing agent which comprises a serpentine compound containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mg and Zn and is used in the ink jet recording medium. According to the present invention, an ink jet recording medium having excellent ink absorptivity (color development, resolution) and excellent water resistance and light resistance for an image recorded on the medium can be provided by using a serpentine compound as an ink fixing agent. That is, according to the present invention, there can be provided an ink jet recording medium which is best suited for recording with a water/oil ink, can record a high-definition image at a high reproducibility and has excellent keeping properties, especially water resistance and light resistance.

Abstract: An inkjet recording element having a support having thereon in order: a) a fusible, porous ink-receptive layer of fusible polymeric particles and a binder; b) a fusible, porous ink-transporting layer of fusible, polymeric particles and a film-forming, hydrophobic binder. The invention is also directed to an inkjet printing process wherein the ink-receptive layer and/or the support, each either alone or in combination, is capable of receiving substantially all of the ink carrier liquid received after the ink carrier liquid has passed through the ink-receptive layer.

Abstract: An image forming method comprises a step of reacting an ink containing a coloring material with a liquid composition containing fine particles reactive to the coloring material on a recording medium, where the reaction between the coloring material and the fine particles occurs in a liquid, the coloring material is adsorbed on the surfaces of the fine particles while keeping the monomolecular state as in the ink, and the fine particles having the coloring material on the surface aggregate each other. This method can provide images of high optical density and high color saturation, with less occurrence of white stripes in the image.

Abstract: Pigment suitable for use in coating compositions for inkjet recording media. Surfaces of an inorganic particulate are interacted with a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt in an aqueous medium. The treated particle surfaces have a significant cationic surface charge imparted to them. The salt is a salt of a metal of Group II or Group III of the Periodic Table. Inkjet recording media treated with a coating composition containing the above pigment provide high density, fast-drying, and non-feathering ink images with suitable water fastness, while the coating compositions also offer cost advantages and improved rheology at higher pigment levels over coatings based on silica pigments.