Abstract: A rotatable self-lam for attachment to an elongate object can be made by variations to conventional self-lams. In some forms, the rotatable self-lam can be made by folding a portion of the head end of the self-lam onto itself to provide an adhesive-free length which is first wrapped around the elongate object during marker application. In other forms, a bifurcated release liner can have a portion proximate the head end of the marker which can be removed to help template or accommodate the fold to create the adhesive-free length or can have a portion proximate the head end which is retained when the portion proximate the tail end is removed such that the retained portion of the release liner provides an adhesive-free surface during application.

Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to material sets and 3-dimensional printing systems that include a fusing agent. One example of a material set can include a fusing agent and a detailing agent. The fusing agent can include water, a carbon black pigment, and a water-soluble co-solvent in an amount from 20 wt % to 60 wt %. The detailing agent can include water and a black dye. In another example, a material set can include a fusing agent and a thermoplastic polymer powder.

Abstract: A printable recording material that contains an opaque supporting substrate; a resin-rich barrier layer; a coating composition with bimodal pore size distribution; and an ink colorant-receiving layer. Also disclosed herein are the method for making such material and the method for producing printed images using said printable recording material.

Abstract: A printable recording material containing an opaque supporting substrate; a resin barrier layer; an ink vehicle-receiving layer having a first structure with inorganic particles and, at least, a binder and a second structure with nano-porous particles and, at least, a binder; and an ink colorant-receiving layer. Also disclosed are the method for making such material and the method for producing printed images using said printable recording material.

Abstract: A graphic medium and a method of making same employs a paper core having a normalized opacity within a range of about 0.15 to about 0.4 percent/grams per square meter. The graphic medium includes a first material layer on a first side of the paper core and a second material layer on one or both of the first side between the paper core and the first material layer and a second, opposite side of the paper core. The graphic medium has a translucent opacity between about 40% and about 90%. The method includes mechanically refining a mixture of wood fibers until a paper substrate is formed having the normalized opacity. The paper substrate is calendered using a paper making machine and the first and second material layers are applied to form the graphic medium.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides low grammage recording media, and associated methods and systems. In one example, a low grammage recording medium can comprise a raw base paper having a basis weight of 65 gsm or less, the raw base paper comprising wood fiber and 2 wt % to 10 wt % filler including calcium carbonate. A surface treatment solution is applied to the raw base paper and comprises a surface sizing agent and 3 wt % to 15 wt % calcium carbonate.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet recording ink and recording media set, which contains: an inkjet recording ink; and a recording medium, wherein the inkjet recording ink comprises at least: water; a water-soluble organic solvent; and a colorant containing carbon black, and having a volume average particle diameter of 40 nm to 100 nm, wherein the recording medium contains: a substrate; and a coating layer on at least one side of the substrate, and wherein an amount of pure water transferred to the recording medium, as measured with a dynamic scanning absorptometer at 23 C and 50% RH, at a contact time of 100 ms is 2 ml/m2 to 35 ml/m2 while an amount of pure water transferred to the recording medium at a contact time of 400 ms is 3 ml/m2 to 40 ml/m2.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording method including recording onto a recording medium a black image of composite black using a black ink and color inks, wherein the black ink includes water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a surfactant, and a carbon black whose volume average particle diameter is 40 nm to 100 nm, and the color inks include a cyan ink, a magenta ink and a yellow ink, wherein the mass ratio (A/B) of a solid content A to a water-soluble organic solvent content B in the black ink is in the range of 1/8 to 1/15, and wherein the recording medium includes a support with a coating layer, and the amounts of purified water transferred to the recording medium at contact periods of 100 ms and 400 ms at a temperature of 23 C and a relative humidity of 50% are 2 ml/m2 to 35 ml/m2 and 3 ml/m2 to 40 ml/m2 respectively.

Abstract: An inkjet-printable, self-laminating wire marker comprising: A. A transparent substrate layer having top and bottom facial surfaces; B. A topcoat layer having top and bottom facial surfaces with the bottom facial surface of the topcoat layer in direct contact with at least a part but not all of the top facial surface of the substrate layer; C. A transparent adhesive layer having top and bottom facial surfaces with the top facial surface of the adhesive layer in direct contact with the bottom facial surface of the substrate layer. In one embodiment an opaque white primer layer having top and bottom facial surfaces is interposed between the substrate and topcoat layers such that the bottom facial surface of the primer layer is in direct contact with the top facial surface of the substrate layer and the top facial surface of the primer layer is in direct contact with the bottom facial surface of the topcoat.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink jet recording medium comprising a support and an ink receiving layer provided on at least one surface of the support. In one embodiment, a center line average roughness average Ra of a surface of the ink-receiving layer, measured with a 2.5 mm measuring length and 0.8 mm cut-off value, is in a range of 0.3 ?m or more but less than 0.8 ?m. In another embodiment, a center line average roughness average Ra of the surface of the support measured with a 2.5 mm measuring length and 0.8 mm cut-off value, is preferably in a range of 0.3 ?m or more but less than 1.0 ?m. An image clarity of the surface of the ink receiving layer is preferably in a range of 2 to 40%.

Abstract: An article in the form of a paper substrate having a first surface and a second surface; an internal paper sizing agent present in an amount sufficient to impart to the paper substrate an HST value of from about 50 to about 250 seconds; one or more optical brightening agents present in an amount below a “green over” effect excess but sufficient to impart an ISO Brightness value of at least about 92; and a metal salt drying agent mixture of multivalent and monovalent metal drying salts in a molar ratio of multivalent to monovalent cations of from about 3:1 to about 1:18 to provide a percent ink transferred (“IT %”) value equal to or less than about 65% and a black print density value of at least about 1.45. Also, a method for treating the optically brightened paper substrate with a mixture of multivalent and monovalent metal drying salts.

Abstract: The invention is directed to copy protected paper, to a method for producing said paper, the use of a specific layer for copy protection of paper, and a method for protecting a printable paper from being copied. Copy protected paper comprising a printable paper having, on a side to be printed or a printed side, a first transparent layer, wherein said first transparent layer has a difference in refractive index with i) said paper; or ii) an optional second transparent layer being provided on said paper on the side to be printed or the printed side, wherein said difference in refractive index is at least 0.05.

Abstract: A composition includes an alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent or an alkyl ketene dimer sizing agent. The alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent is present in an amount ranging from about 1.0 pounds per ton to about 4.0 pounds per ton. The alkyl ketene dimer sizing agent is present in an amount ranging from about 2.0 pounds per ton to about 10.0 pounds per ton. A metallic salt is also incorporated in the composition.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a light transmitting support, at least one ink-receptive layer provided on one surface of the support and at least one back-coating layer provided on the opposite surface of the support, wherein at least one of the back-coating layers contains inorganic fine particles having an average particle size of a primary particle of 5 to 50 nm and a binder, and a void ratio of the layer is 70% by volume or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a support and an imaging element utilizing the support, wherein the support comprises at least one nacreous resin layer, wherein the uppermost layer comprises nacreous pigment in a polyolefin matrix polymer, and wherein the FLOP value of the imaging element, and, hence, the support, is greater than 25. Also included is a method of making the nacreous support.

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 anti-copy film is disclosed. The film has a light transmissive imageable substrate having opposing first and second surfaces. Each surface has an image receptive coating. Complementary positive and negative images are disposed on the first and second surfaces such that an imaged area on the first surface is in registration with a non-imaged area on the second surface. The anti-copy film appears substantially opaque when viewed orthogonally to and appears partially transparent when viewed obliquely to either the first or second surfaces.

Abstract: A white biaxially oriented polyester film for use as a base film for receiving an ink jet printer image and a base film for receiving an ink jet printer image which satisfy the following requirements (1) to (4): (1) the content of titanium oxide particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m in the polyester film is 5 to 20 wt %; (2) the polyester film has an average glossiness of 65 to 95%; (3) the polyester film has an X-ray diffraction intensity ratio (F-1/F-2) represented by the following formal (1): 0.05?F-1/F-2?0.15 (1) ?wherein (F-1) is an X-ray diffraction intensity on a plane (1{overscore (1)}0) parallel to the surface of the film and (F-2) is an X-ray diffraction intensity on a plane (100) parallel to the surface of the film; and (4) the polyester film has a static friction coefficient of 0.3 to 0.6. The base film for receiving an ink jet printer image of the present invention is excellent in adhesion, glossiness, opacifying properties and transportability.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording sheet comprising a reflective support having thereon a porous ink absorbing layer containing a dye or a pigment, wherein a color difference ?abL defined by the following formula is not more than 7: ?abL=[(a1?a2)2+(b1?b2)2+(L1?L2)2]1/2 wherein (L1, a1, b1) and (L2, a2, b2) each are a set of coordinates (L*, a*, b*) defined in a CIELAB color space and measured on a surface of the reflective support adjacent to the ink absorbing layer and on an outermost surface of the ink absorbing layer respectively, and a2 is in a range of ?2 to 2 and b2 is in a range of ?4 to 4.

Abstract: Disclosed is a recording sheet which comprises a substrate and a material selected from the group consisting of purine compounds, pyrimidine compounds, benzimidazole compounds, imidazolidine compounds, urazole compounds, pyrazole compounds, triazole compounds, benzotriazole compounds, tetrazole compounds, pyrazine compounds, and mixtures thereof. Also disclosed is a recording sheet which consists essentially of a substrate, at least one material selected from the group consisting of purine compounds, pyrimidine compounds, benzimidazole compounds, imidazolidine compounds, urazole compounds, pyrazole compounds, triazole compounds, benzotriazole compounds, tetrazole compounds, pyrazine compounds, and mixtures thereof, an optional binder, an optional antistatic agent, an optional biocide, and an optional filler.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging element comprising an imaging layer and a support, wherein the support comprises a base material having thereon at least two polyolefin layers, wherein the uppermost layer of the at least two polyolefin layers comprises a mixture of optical brighteners comprising a Compound A having the following formula: a Compound B having the following formula: and a Compound C having the following formula: wherein the layers below the uppermost layer of the at least two polyolefin layers comprise migratory optical brightener; and wherein the imaging layer is on the same side of the base material as the at least two polyolefin layers. The inventive support unexpectedly minimizes exudation of the brightener at the polyolefin surface and provides excellent absorption/emission characteristics, brightening power and heat to meet the critical requirements of the photographic field.

Abstract: In an ink jet recording sheet including a substrate sheet having a base paper sheet and at least a front polyolefin laminate layer formed on at least a front surface of the base paper sheet, and an ink receiving layer formed on the front polyolefin laminate layer, the surface of the front polyolefin laminate layer has a center-line mean roughness (Ra) of 0.1 to 10 &mgr;m, determined in accordance with JIS B 0601-1982, the ink receiving layer contains a mixture of hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose with polyvinyl pyrrolidone in a mixing weight ratio of 100:10 to 100:150 and has a 75° specular gloss of 30% or more determined in accordance with JIS P 8142-1993.

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: An ink jet recording sheet includes a substrate, an ink receiving layer, and a clay-containing layer between the paper substrate and the ink receiving layer. The clay-containing layer contains platelet clay particles having an average aspect ratio of at least 10:1, and an orientation such that at least 50% of the platelet clay particles have a major axis within 30° of parallel to the substrate. The sheet exhibits little or no cockle formation, even at high ink laydowns. A method of preparing the ink jet recording sheet and a method of printing using the ink jet recording sheet are also described.