Abstract: A printing method according to the present invention includes an applying step of applying a curable resin-containing ink onto a transfer sheet (10), a heating and thickening step of heating the ink on the transfer sheet (10) to increase viscosity of the ink, a transfer step of transferring the ink on the transfer sheet (10) to a printing target (15), and a curing step of curing the ink on the printing target (15).

Abstract: Provided is an ink composition capable of forming images having excellent water resistance, excellent solvent resistance and excellent adhesiveness to base materials, the ink composition including (Component A) a polymer containing a repeating unit (a1) having at least one of an aromatic ketone structure and an aliphatic 1,2-diketone structure, a repeating unit (a2) having at least one of a tertiary amine structure and a thiol structure, and a repeating unit (a3) having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, and (Component B) a coloring material.

Abstract: Polycyclic aromatic compounds of formula (I) having at least two conjugated aromatic rings at least one of which has a substituent comprising a cyclic carbonate group can be used as sensitizers for cationic photoinitiators, especially iodonium compounds, and may also function as monomers in cationically initiated radiation curable compositions, especially coating compositions, such as printing inks and varnishes.

Abstract: A textured heat transfer label includes a textured portion formed from a highly cross-linked UV ink and a thermoplastic background ink.

Abstract: A system and method for creating an authentication mark on a recording medium by depositing marking material on a medium in an image area to create a marking material image and to create a marking material authentication image.

Abstract: Finishing set for a floor covering, whereby this finishing set at least consists of, on the one hand, a finishing profile and, on the other hand, a holder with at least an attachment portion for attaching said finishing profile at the holder, characterized in that the holder comprises an underlay portion, which at choice can or cannot be provided underneath the remaining portion of the holder as well as a stop-forming positioning portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an actinic ray curable ink composition for inkjet recording, which has a high sensitivity for inhibiting a blocking phenomenon and capability for forming an image, obtained by curing, which exhibits excellent shaping suitability and punching suitability, and which includes: a colorant; a polymerization initiator; a polymerizable monomer; and organic fine particles, the polymerizable monomer containing a monofunctional monomer in an amount of 90% by mass or more with respect to a total mass of the polymerizable monomer, and organic fine particles that are crosslinked.

Abstract: Provided are a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 20 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a black pigment (F1); and a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 10 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a yellow pigment (F2).

Abstract: Not only the applied ink has improved weathering resistance after the printing, but also the ink can be advantageously cured during the printing. A printing method having: an ink application step for applying an ultraviolet curing ink onto a recording medium, wherein the ultraviolet curing ink contains an ultraviolet light absorber having a transmittance with respect to an ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 360 nm or more, which is higher than a transmittance with respect to an ultraviolet light having a wavelength of less than 360 nm; and an ultraviolet light irradiation step for irradiating the ink on the recording medium with an ultraviolet light having a wavelength of from 365 to 410 nm from an LED.

Abstract: A primer-less coating composition for facestock comprises: a binder being a water-dispersible polymer; an ethylenically unsaturated compound which is aqueous-dispersible and miscible with or bonded to the water-dispersible polymer, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated compound is able to form a covalent bond with an ink; and a crosslinker that is suitable for binding the coating to the facestock. The coating composition may be applied to a substrate to form a printable film. A printed film having the coating may be used in a label, for example for use on a container such as a bottle.

Abstract: A small home/office tactile printing system comprises a print head assembly and a paper feed assembly. The print head assembly includes a print head for printing with ink and an applicator for applying a liquid. The paper feed assembly moves paper (or any other medium suitable for printing) relative to the print head assembly and its components for printing the ink on the paper, applying the liquid to the medium and curing the liquid. The liquid is ultraviolet (UV) curable glue and curing is exposure of the UV liquid to UV light. The present invention also includes a variety of methods including a method for printing tactile information, a method for copying a document having tactile printing, a method for binding sheets of a media, a method for scratch-off printing and method for copying a bound document.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a multilayer coat characterized by including the steps of coating a substrate with an undercoating material to form an undercoat layer, coating the undercoat layer with an active energy ray-curing type ink in an ink-jet system, curing the active energy ray-curing type ink through active energy ray irradiation, and coating the cured active energy ray-curing type ink with a top coating material to form a top coat layer, wherein the surface free energy of the undercoat layer is ?s=20-50 mN/m, the active energy ray-curing type ink has a surface tension at 40° C. of 20-35 mN/m, and the top coating material has a surface tension at 25° C. of 20-50 mN/m, as well as a multilayer coat obtained by the production method.

Abstract: An ink that is curable with high intensity visible light. Also, substrates, particularly game balls, printed with such ink, and a method for printing.

Abstract: Improved ultraviolet light-curable compositions are provided for printing onto a security document substrate in a predetermined pattern to make tactile features for use by people with impaired vision to, for example, recognize the denominations of banknotes. The improved compositions substantially comprise an acidic trifunctional acrylate ester, preferably in an amount of 60-80 wt %, and include urethane acrylate and effective amounts of flexibilizer (e.g. low viscosity aromatic monoacrylate having an elongation parameter of about 200), photoinitiator and a rheological additive (e.g. silica). The composition unexpectedly provides flexibility and is particular useful for printing tactile features in the form of relatively large continuous graphical patterns.

Abstract: Sports equipment, particularly game balls, are printed with an ink cured with light in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The ink uses a photoinitiator that absorbs light in both the ultraviolet region and in a range of from about 400 nm to about 690 nm in the visible light region, a Type I photoinitiator compound absorbing in only the visible region, or a Type II photoinitiator compound either containing an abstractable hydrogen or used with a free radical-curable material comprising an abstractable hydrogen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition comprising (a) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated natural oil which is the reaction product of an unsaturated natural oil with an unsaturated anhydride and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate, and (b) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated oligomer and/or monomer, and optionally an inert resin and/or filler, as well as their use for making inks and coatings.

Abstract: An ink for inkjet recording containing water, water-soluble organic solvent, water-dispersible resin, fluorochemical surfactant or derivative thereof, and coloring agent containing pigment, where the ink has a surface tension of 20-35 mN/m and viscosity of ?5 mPa·s at 25° C., total amount of the water-dispersible resin and the coloring agent in the ink is 5-40% by mass, and mass ratio A/B of the water-dispersible resin A to the coloring agent B is 0.5-4, where the ink is applied to a recording medium containing a support containing cellulose pulp, and one or more barrier layers disposed on a face of the support, and where the barrier layer contains ?30% by mass of inorganic pigment having refractive index of ?1.5, excluding aluminum hydrate, and ?10% by mass of inorganic pigment having a refractive index of <1.5.

Abstract: An active light-curable ink composition contains a polymerizable compound, a color material having an absorption peak in a wavelength region, and a polymerization initiator having an absorption peak in a different wavelength region from the color material.

Abstract: A free radical curable liquid for inkjet printing of food packaging materials includes no initiator or otherwise one or more initiators selected from the group consisting of non-polymeric di- or multifunctional initiators, oligomeric initiators, polymeric initiators, and polymerizable initiators; wherein the polymerizable composition of the liquid consists essentially of: a) 25-100 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds A having at least one acrylate group G1 and at least one second ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable functional group G2 different from the group G1; b) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds B selected from the group consisting of monofunctional acrylates and difunctional acrylates; and c) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds C selected from the group consisting of trifunctional acrylates, tetrafunctional acrylates, pentafunctional acrylates and hexafunctional acrylates.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink composition including a sensitizer represented by the following Formula (I), a photopolymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound having an ethylenic unsaturated bond. In the Formula (I), R1, R6 and R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group which may be substituted, or an alkoxy group which may be substituted. R2, R4, R5 and R7 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a cyano group. R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group which may be substituted, or a cycloalkyl group which may be substituted.

Abstract: A method for using a photocurable ink including applying this photocurable ink to a suitable substrate. The photocurable ink can be partially cured during application, or fully cured after application. The photocurable ink contains a colorant dissolved or dispersed within a solvent, a photoinitiator, an organic phosphite, an aldehyde, and a photocurable compound. The organic phosphite is present in a molar excess relative to the aldehyde moieties that are present. The photocurable ink can be used for imaging or other applications where a uniform or patterned image is desired.

Abstract: One embodiment of a method of manufacturing a textured surface may include providing a first thermally stable sheet, printing a pattern of material on the first sheet to form a three-dimensional textured surface, and curing the material, then using said first sheet to impart negative texture into Tedlar faced epoxy composite blanket, which is in turn used to impart texture into a decorative laminate.

Abstract: A photosensitive electromagnetic-wave interception ink composition containing a photosensitive metal complex, electrically conductive particles, soft magnetic particles and a solvent is used for forming a coated film on a surface of a particular circuit element mounted on a circuit board by an ink-jet method, and the film is irradiated with light, whereby an electrically conductive cured material 100 containing at least electrically conductive particles 120 originated from the photosensitive electromagnetic-wave interception ink composition and the soft particles 140 is formed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition comprising (a) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated natural oil which is the reaction product of an unsaturated natural oil with an unsaturated anhydride and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate, and (b) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated oligomer and/or monomer, and optionally an inert resin and/or filler, as well as their use for making inks and coatings.

Abstract: The invention describes a radiation-curable ink jet ink, which comprises at least 50% by weight of cyclic trimethylolpropane formal acrylate (CTFA), and further comprises a free-radical photoinitiator, and which is substantially free of volatile compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a metal film material, the method including: applying an ink composition by discharging the ink composition onto a substrate via an inkjet method, the ink composition containing at least one first monomer having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a cyano group, an alkyloxy group, an amino group, a pyridine residue, a pyrrolidone residue, an imidazole residue, an alkylsulfanyl group, or a cyclic ether residue, at least one second monomer that has polyfunctionality, and at least one polymerization initiator, a total monomer content in the ink composition being 85% by mass or greater; forming a cured film by carrying out at least one of light exposure or heating of the ink composition that has been applied; applying a plating catalyst or a precursor thereof to the cured film; and a plating processing step of performing plating with respect to the plating catalyst or precursor thereof that has been applied.

Abstract: This patent application relates to an ultraviolet ink for surface printing. The ultraviolet ink includes: between 10% to 30% by weight of n-butyl acetate, between 10% to 30% by weight of acrylic resin, between 20% to 40% by weight of polyvinyl chloride urethane resin, between 15% to 35% by weight of monomer and between 3% to 8% by weight of photoinitiator. The advantages of using the ultraviolet ink made by the above-mentioned formula for plastic UV spraying surface printing include high wear resistance, hard to fall off, simplified preparation process and lower production cost.

Abstract: The wiring substrate includes a substrate; a plurality of conductive patterns on a surface of the substrate, the plurality of conductive patterns including a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of wirings connected to at least one of the plurality of sensing electrodes and the plurality of driving electrodes; and a photo solder resist layer on the surface of the substrate, the photo solder resist layer including a body and a plurality of protrusions extending from a side of the body, wherein an end portion of each protrusion is formed on each of the respective wirings, and a width of the end portion is smaller than a width of a starting portion of each protrusion that is in contact with the side of the body.

Abstract: An image can be formed onto a device such as a cell phone or a tablet by laser engraving the image onto a housing of the device. A coloring agent can then be applied to the engraved image to modify the color of the image. The coloring agent can darken the engraved image. The coloring agent can include multiple colors of ink (e.g., UV curing ink) that can be applied to form a multi-color image. The coloring agent can be applied without requiring the use of a masking layer, for example, by aligning the laser engraved image with a coloring agent applicator so that the coloring agent is applied to substantially only the engraved image on the device.

Abstract: Provided are a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 20 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a black pigment (F1); and a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 10 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a yellow pigment (F2).

Abstract: A seasoning apparatus includes: a table on which a stack of paper sheets is loaded; a ceiling plate which is arranged above the table to cover an upper side of the paper stack on the table; a front side plate and a rear side plate which are arranged to oppose to each other at front and rear sides of the paper stack on the table, at least one of the front and rear side plates being advanceable and retractable relatively to each other; a right-hand side plate and a left-hand side plate which are arranged to oppose to each other at a right-hand side and a left-hand side of the paper stack on the table, at least one of the right-hand and left-hand side plates being advanceable and retractable relatively to each other; and an air blowing device which blows air horizontally toward the paper stack on the table.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink composition including a polymerizable compound represented by following Formula (1), a polymerization initiator and water: XA)n??Formula (1) wherein, in Formula (1), X represents a divalent or trivalent nitrogen-containing linking group represented by any one of following Formulae (X1) to (X3), A represents a polymerizable functional group having an amide group, and n represents 2 or 3: wherein, in Formulae (X1) to (X3), Z represents an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, or a divalent linking group including an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms and an oxygen atom; and R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Provided are a lenticular lens sheet which can be used in a stereoscopic display, a rear projection display, a projection screen, and the like, and means for manufacturing the lenticular lens sheet at low cost without using any mold. The lenticular lens sheet includes at least a transparent support substrate; a plurality of lenticular lenses; and a partition between adjacent ones of the plurality of lenticular lenses, and the lenticular lens sheet is obtained by applying a transparent resin composition ink by an inkjet method to an area partitioned by the partition and subsequently curing the transparent resin composition ink with ultraviolet rays.

Abstract: A radiation curable gel ink leveling method for digital direct-to-substrate radiation curable gel ink printing includes depositing radiation curable gel ink directly onto a substrate, irradiating the gel ink to increase a viscosity of the gel ink, adding sacrificial release fluid to a hydrophilic leveling roll surface, the leveling roll surface including metal oxide, and leveling the ink with the leveling roll. UV gel ink printing systems and leveling apparatus include a leveling roll having a metal oxide surface suitable for use with water based release fluids that contain a surfactant and/or polymer.

Abstract: A surface decoration method in which an article for printing that serves as a underlayer is printed with a plurality of lines of ultraviolet curing ink in a row having spaces such that the underlayer is exposed.

Abstract: Provided are a color display device capable of colorized display in a reflection type display device which is adopted to electronic paper and the like without degrading the degree of brightness and with high efficiency, and also with ease and lower costs, and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: In a building board, a base coating film, an inkjet coating film and a clear coating film are sequentially formed on a surface of an inorganic board; the inkjet coating film is a cured product of a UV-curable ink; and the clear coating film contains 0.1 to 10.0 wt % of a light stabilizer and/or ultraviolet absorbent. A method of producing a building board includes the steps of: implementing base coating onto a surface of an inorganic board; performing inkjet coating by coating a UV-curable ink onto the surface of the base-coated inorganic board and curing the UV-curable ink through irradiation of UV rays; and performing clear coating by applying a clear coating material containing 0.1 to 10.0 wt %, on solids basis, of a light stabilizer and/or ultraviolet absorbent, onto the surface of the inkjet-coated inorganic board.

Abstract: Described herein are methods for applying multiple layers of a composition to an article. Also presented are articles produced by the methods described herein. The methods include applying a first composition to the outer surface of a game card to produce a first layer, applying a second composition to the outer surface of the first layer to produce a second layer, applying an ink to the outer surface of the first layer, or the outer surface of the second layer, or both, so as to form an image, and applying a third composition to the outer surface of the second layer to produce a third layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an resist material for imprinting comprises a first resin component nonvolatile at a substrate on which to form an imprinting pattern, a second resin component volatile at the substrate, and a coupling reaction initiator that promotes curing of the first resin component.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous ink composition including at least a sensitizing dye represented by the following Formula (i), an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing water-soluble polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator and water: wherein, in Formula (i), X represents O, S or NR; n represents an integer of 0 or 1; R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an acyl group; each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, provided that any neighboring two of R1, R2, R3 and R4 may be bonded to each other to form a ring, and R5 and R7 or R8, or R6 and R7 or R8, may be bonded to each other to form an aliphatic ring but do not form an aromatic ring.

Abstract: A photocurable composition is provided that includes a compound represented by Formula (I) below, in Formula (I), X denotes O, S, or NRa, n1 denotes 0 or 1, and R1 to R14 and Ra independently denote a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a monovalent substituent, at least one of R1 to R14 and Ra not being a hydrogen atom). There is also provided an inkjet recording method that includes (a1) a step of discharging the photocurable composition onto a recording medium and (b1) a step of curing the photocurable composition by irradiating the discharged photocurable composition with light.

Abstract: An ink composition comprising: (A) an isoindoline-based pigment; (B) a pigment dispersing agent; (C) a radically polymerizable compound; and (D) a polymerization initiator; the radically polymerizable compound (C) comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by Formula (I) to Formula (III): wherein R1 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A1 denotes a single bond or a divalent linking group, R2 denotes a monovalent substituent, m denotes an integer of 0 to 13, and when m is an integer of 2 to 13, the R2s may be identical to or different from each other, R3 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A2 denotes a single bond or a divalent linking group, and n denotes an integer of 1 to 5.

Abstract: A light-cyan radiation-curable gel ink including at least one curable monomer, at least one organic gellant, at least one photoinitiator, and a colorant. The colorant includes a cyan colorant, a hue-adjusting colorant that absorbs light having a wavelength of from about 500 to about 600 nm, and an optional shade-adjusting colorant that absorbs light having a wavelength of from about 400 to about 500 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition containing: a polymer having a polyoxyalkylene group and a partial structure selected from the group consisting of a fluoroalkyl group, a siloxane skeleton and a long-chain alkyl group; a polymerizable compound; and a polymerization initiator.

Abstract: An ink curable with actinic energy rays characterized by containing a photocleavage type photopolymerization initiator (A) comprising ?-aminoalkylphenone compound (A1) having a molar absorption coefficient measured at a wavelength of 363 nm of 100 (l/mol·cm) or more and less than 100,000 (l/mol·cm) and/or an acylphosphine oxide compound (A2) having a molar absorption coefficient measured at a wavelength of 365 nm of 100 (l/mol·cm) or more and less than 100,000 (l/mol·cm); and a hydrogen abstraction type photopolymerization initiator (B) comprising 4,4?-dialkylaminobenzophenone having a molar absorption coefficient at a wavelength of 365 nm of 10,000 (l/mol·cm) or more and less than 1,000,000 (l/mol·cm) and by optionally containing a tertiary amine compound (C) having a molar extinction coefficient as measured at a wavelength of 365 nm of 1 (l/mol·cm) or lower. The ink further includes a resin, a pigment, and a compound having an acrylate group.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a digital printing ink and to the ink thus obtained. The inventive method comprises the following phases consisting in: dispersing pigments in a mixture of oligomers and monomers, including polyol acrylates, with a maximum particle size of 1 micrometer; diluting same with a mixture of monofunctional and multifunctional acrylic monomers until a viscosity of between 10 and 30 centipoise is obtained; introducing a photoinitiator system, which starts the polymerization of the oligomers and monomers from the first phase, in the presence of ultraviolet radiation; and subjecting the resulting ink to a filtration process.

Abstract: The present invention provides an actinic energy radiation curable ink-jet ink exhibiting excellent ink storage stability, nozzle ink repellency, and ejection stability, and also exhibiting excellent curability, anti-abrasion properties, solvent resistance, flexibility, weather resistance, and substrate adhesion properties even under various ambience factors and irradiation conditions, as well as an ink-jet recording method and printed matter using the same. In an actinic energy radiation curable ink-jet ink containing a cationically polymerizable compound and a photo-cationic polymerization initiator, an actinic energy radiation curable ink-jet ink wherein a cationically polymerizable compound having a vinyl ether group as a reactive group is contained at 50.0% by mass or more and the halogen ion content is 1.0 ?g/g of the ink-100 ?g/g of the ink.

Abstract: A seasoning apparatus includes: a table on which a stack of paper sheets is loaded, each of the paper sheets having at least one face on which active light curable aqueous ink has been deposited; an air blowing device which blows air in an air blowing direction to a side of the stack loaded on the table; an active light emission device which emits the active light in an active light emitting direction to a side of the stack loaded on the table; and a control device which causes the air blowing device to blow the air to the stack to create gaps between faces of the paper sheets, and causes the active light emission device to emit the active light to the stack to cause the active light to enter the gaps.

Abstract: The radiation-curable phase-change ink composition having at least one radiation curable fluorescent co-monomer and a gellant. The radiation-curable phase-change ink composition offers both document security features as well as potential brand highlight features. The radiation-curable phase-change ink composition combines the unique attributes of the UV curable gel system, with its tremendous substrate latitude, with the ability to add tunable fluorescent effects without the safety concerns of small molecule fluorescent additives. Exemplary ink compositions include a first co-monomer, least one radiation curable fluorescent co-monomer, and a gellant. Methods for making and using these ink compositions and ink compositions are also provided.

Abstract: This invention relates to the printing of a substrate having a pre-printed “print pattern” with a “design layer” of ink where there is differential adhesion within and without the print pattern. The print pattern is receptive to an ink, and the design layer ink forms a durable image material with good bond to the print pattern, but the ink does not form a durable image material on the portions of the substrate outside the print pattern. The design layer ink is a UV-curable ink, and the print pattern may have a higher surface energy than the portions of the substrate outside the print pattern.