Abstract: A polybrominated flame-retardant compound, a process for forming a flame-retardant material, and an article of manufacture are disclosed. The polybrominated flame-retardant compound includes a cyclododecane moiety, at least two bromo groups, and at least one substituent having a reactive functional group. The process includes forming a polybromocyclododecane (PBCD) compound having at least one reactive functional group and incorporating the PBCD compound into a polymer in a process that includes covalent binding of the PBCD compound. The article of manufacture includes a flame-retardant material that comprises a polymer with a covalently-bound PBCD compound.

Abstract: Use of a derivative containing C—O—P bonds in a controlled release form to treat patients with kidney failure. Moreover, it comprises the use of said derivatives together with other active substances, which particularly may be selected from a list comprising a calcimirnetic, vitamin, phosphate binder, thiosulfate, bisphosphonate, pyrophosphate, citrate, diuretic, antihypertensive and anticholesteraemic agent.

Abstract: The fluoropolymer compositions of the present invention generally incorporate ingredients comprising one or more fluoropolymers, an ultraviolet light protection component (hereinafter UV protection component), and optionally one or more additional ingredients if desired. The UV protection component includes a combination of at least one hindered tertiary amine (HTA) compound having a certain structure and a weight average molecular weight of at least 1000. This tertiary amine is used in combination with at least one organic, UV light absorbing compound (UVLA compound) having a weight average molecular weight greater than 500. When the HTA compound and the UVLA compound are selected according to principles of the present invention, the UV protection component provides fluoropolymer compositions with significantly improved weatherability characteristics for protecting underlying materials, features, structures, components, and/or the like.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. Such films exhibit superior resistance to ink-transfer when printed to high optical densities, which is desirable for medical imaging applications.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. Such films exhibit improved ink-drying and smudging performance. These films exhibit high maximum optical densities and have low haze values. These films are useful for medical imaging.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. These films can exhibit high maximum optical densities, rapid ink drying, low curl, excellent adhesion between the coating layers and the substrate, and negligible ink transfer between stacked ink-jet recording films after imaging. Such films are useful in medical imaging applications.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. These compositions and methods can impart excellent adhesion properties between film layers and the transparent support. These films are useful for medical imaging.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. These compositions and methods can impart excellent adhesion properties between film layers and the transparent support. These films are useful for medical imaging.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. Such films do not exhibit excessive ink drying times. These films can be free of such visual effects as mud cracking. These films are useful for medical imaging.

Abstract: Addition of a surfactant to either the under-layer, the image-receiving layer, or to both the under-layer and the image-receiving layer provides a quick-drying, transparent ink-jet recording film capable of achieving an optical density of at least 2.8 while still having a low haze and producing a number of grey levels.

Abstract: The compositions and methods of the present application can provide transparent ink-jet recording films that may be used by printers relying on optical detection of fed media. Such films can be useful for medical image reproduction.

Abstract: The compositions and methods of the present application can provide transparent ink-jet recording films with increased image-receiving layer thicknesses. Such films can exhibit high maximum optical densities and rapid ink drying.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. These films can exhibit high maximum optical densities, rapid ink drying, low curl, excellent adhesion between the coating layers and the substrate, and negligible ink transfer between stacked ink-jet recording films after imaging. Such films are useful in medical imaging applications.

Abstract: Transparent ink-jet recording films, compositions, and methods are disclosed. These compositions and methods can impart excellent adhesion properties between film layers and the transparent support. These films are useful for medical imaging.

Abstract: A display panel has a resin substrate and a printed layer formed on at least a part of the resin substrate through inkjet printing. The printed layer is formed from cured products of UV-curable inks each containing UV-curable monomers which are polymerized and cured by UV irradiation, and the printed layer has at least two such cured products having different pencil hardness values.

Abstract: An ink receptive article including a substrate having on at least a portion of a major surface thereof an antistatic layer, and wherein the antistatic layer has on at least a portion of a major surface thereof an ink receptive layer, wherein the ink receptive layer includes a crosslinked polymer selected from the group consisting of polyurethanes, polyethers, polyesters, polyacrlylics, polyureas, copolymers thereof, and blends thereof.

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 process for preparing an advertisement comprising printing an ink onto an ink receptive substrate, wherein the ink receptive substrate comprises a transparent or translucent support layer and a porous layer comprising polymerised monomers at least 30wt % of which monomers are alkylene glycol diacrylate(s) having an Mw below 500.

Abstract: A multilayer white polymeric film having a core layer with an optical transmission density greater than 2.0, a white polyester outer layer on either side of the core layer and an ink receptive layer on the outer surface of the white polyester layers.

Abstract: A card based business communication is produced in a unique manner in which a pigmented coating is applied over one face of the card substrate so as to change the appearance of the card material and provide a based for a high resolution image. An image is applied either directly over the pigmented coating or alternatively, the image may be reverse printed on a transparent film such that when the film is applied over the pigmented coating, the image will be visible through the face of the film.

Abstract: A tamper-indicating printable sheet. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a tamper-indicating printable sheet comprising a retroreflective layer comprising a plurality of microbeads partially embedded in an inkjet receptive beadbond layer; and a reflector layer between one of the microbeads and the inkjet receptive beadbond layer. The present invention provides a method of making a tamper-indicating printable sheet.

Abstract: A tamper-indicating printable sheet. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a tamper-indicating printable sheet comprising a retroreflective layer comprising a plurality of microbeads partially embedded in an inkjet receptive beadbond layer; and a reflector layer between one of the microbeads and the inkjet receptive beadbond layer. The present invention provides a method of making a tamper-indicating printable sheet.

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 print medium is encoded with information bearing indicia. A transparent layer or substrate which receives the printed information during printing has a first surface, a second surface and a leading edge. A strip of tape is applied to the first surface. A machine readable information bearing indicia is applied to at least one surface of the tape strip. The indicia is formed by a pattern of fluorescent material which upon excitation by radiation of a given spectral excitation range emits radiation in a fluorescent spectral range. The tape reflects radiation in the given excitation spectral range and in the fluorescent spectral range. One type of indicia is a bar code pattern, although other types can also be employed.

Abstract: Patterns are aligned on the front and back surfaces of a document to provide an anti-counterfeiting security device. The document is sufficiently transparent to allow see-through of the partial image on the back of the document to be superimposed on the partial image on the front of the document to form a complete image if the patterns are properly aligned. The complete image will disappear if misaligned.

Abstract: A substrate for ink-jet printing which is coated or impregnated with a water dissipatable nitrile polymer having a Mn of less than 25,000 comprising 5 to 70% w/w of nitrile monomers. Also processes for ink-jet printing and printed substrates.

Abstract: A recording material for back-printing contains (i) a back-printing sheet comprising a transparent substrate, an ink-absorbing layer that is provided on the transparent substrate, and a porous ink-receiving layer that is provided on the ink-absorbing layer and has filler dispersed in a binder resin, and (ii) a back-printing sheet cover film having a cover substrate, and an adhesive layer that has an adhesive resin and is formed on the cover substrate, the refractive index of the filler and the refractive index of the adhesive resin are different to one another. Specifically, the difference between the refractive index of the filler and the refractive index of the adhesive resin is at least 1.0.

Abstract: A backprinting recording medium includes a transparent substrate, an ink-absorbing layer formed on the transparent substrate and a porous ink-permeable layer formed on the ink-absorbing layer and produced by dispersing a filler in a binder resin, wherein the binder resin constituting the ink-permeable layer has a glass transition temperature of 10° C. or higher, and a Shore D hardness at 25° C. of 40 or higher.

Abstract: There is described an inkjet recording medium that can display image suitable for observation without employing wet development processing. The recording medium is substantially transparent and includes a supporting base shaped in a sheet; and an ink-absorbing layer that is formed on at least one of both sides of the supporting base, and that absorbs ink particles so as to form the image. The diffuse transmission density of a first area, being a part of the recording medium on which no image is formed, is in a range of 0.45-0.15, and a Q-factor of the first area is in a range of 1.50-1.00; and the recording medium is so constituted that a Q-factor of a second area, being a part of the recording medium on which an image is formed so as to adjust a diffuse transmission density at 1.00, is in a range of 1.20-1.00.

Abstract: A recording paper usable in both inkjet recording and electrophotographic recording, and an image recording method using the recording paper. The recording paper includes a base paper that is composed mainly of pulp fibers, contains a filler, and is coated with a cationic resin on one or both sides, wherein surface electric resistivity at 22° C. and 55% relative humidity is 1.0×109 to 1.0×1011 &OHgr; and volume electric resistivity at 22° C. and 55% relative humidity is 1.0×1010 to 1.0×1012 &OHgr;·cm.

Abstract: The present invention provides transparent film sheets for use in projection by an OHP which can be used both in dry copying and in the ink-jet printing of characters and/or pictures, can be directly printed with a jet printing ink without the intervention of a layer receptive to the jet printing ink, can be disposed of in a state capable of maintaining secrecy after use without the necessity of being shredded, and can be disposed of as a class of recycling waste like common white paper. Specifically, the present invention provides transparent film sheets formed of a cellulose ether derived from cellulose which is the basic component of common paper.

Abstract: A recording sheet for use with inkjet printers which achieves high color density while being free of bleeding is provided. The recording sheet has an ink-receiving layer and an ink permeable layer arranged on a surface of the ink-receiving layer. The ink permeable layer includes a filler, a surfactant, and a binder. The surfactant includes a fluorosurfactant having perfluoro-alkyl groups in its chemical structure. The ink permeable layer is made hydrophobic as well as lipophobic since hydrophilic groups on the surfaces of the filler particles will be covered by perfluoro-alkyl groups of the fluorosurfactant. This prevents aqueous ink added an organic solvent from dispersing within the ink permeable layer. The ink permeable layer includes a binder containing a water-insoluble resin having a hydroxyl value of 4 or higher (mgKOH/g) to lower the affinity to the ink.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a back print type ink jet recording sheet, and, particularly, an object of the invention is to provide an ink jet recording sheet coping with oily ink. The ink jet recording sheet comprising an intermediate layer and an ink-receiving layer laminated on a light-transmittable substrate, wherein the intermediate layer is formed of a rubber-based resin, the receiving layer is formed of a hydrophobic resin and a ratio Y/X of reflection density Y of the substrate side to reflection density X of the receiving layer side in a print section when printing using oily ink on the receiving layer is 1.0 or more.

Abstract: A recording material for back-printing contains (i) a back-printing sheet comprising a transparent substrate, an ink-absorbing layer that is provided on the transparent substrate, and a porous ink-receiving layer that is provided on the ink-absorbing layer and has filler dispersed in a binder resin, and (ii) a back-printing sheet cover film having a cover substrate, and an adhesive layer that has an adhesive resin and is formed on the cover substrate, the refractive index of the filler and the refractive index of the adhesive resin are different to one another. Specifically, the difference between the refractive index of the filler and the refractive index of the adhesive resin is at least 1.0.