Abstract: A colored glass frit with a specific surface area of less than 2 square meters per gram that contains from about 1 to about 80 weight percent of metallic element material and from about 30 to about 80 mole percent of glassy network forming oxide material. The frit has a transmission density per micron of thickness of at least about 0.1; when formed into a continuous film of 3 microns thickness and deposited onto a glass substrate, its transmission density is at least 0.3. The glassy network forming oxide material is homogeneously disposed in the flit, and the metallic element material is inhomogeneously dispersed within the glassy network forming oxide material. The metallic element material is in particulate form and has a particle size distribution such that at least 95 weight percent of its particles are smaller than 300 nanometers.

Abstract: A thermal transfer ribbon comprised of a support and an ink layer disposed above the support. The ink layer has a thickness of from about 0.1 to about 10 microns; it contains at least 75 weight percent of particulate conductive metal material and from about 1 to about 25 weight percent of binder; and it has a surface resistivity of less than about 1,000,000 ohms per square. When the ink layer is transferred to a substrate, the surface resistivity of the transferred ink is less than 100 ohms per square when printed onto a flexible substrate at a printing speed of 2 centimeters per second and a printing energy of 7.6 joules per square centimeter. The particulate conductive metal preferably contains a noble metal and has a melting point of at least 800 degrees Celsius and a particle size such that least about 95 weight percent of its particles are smaller than 50 microns.

Abstract: Disclosed in this specification is a ceramic correction fluid and methods for applying the same. The ceramic correction fluid is suitable for patching imaged substrates, including both glass and ceramic substrates, such that voids in the image are corrected.