5685 results about "Printing ink" patented technology

Radiation curable compositions with a polymeric co-initiator are disclosed comprising a dendritic polymer core with at least one co-initiating functional group as an end group. The dendritic polymeric core is preferably a hyperbranched polymer. Industrial applications include varnishes, lacquers and printing inks. The polymeric co-initiator is especially useful in radiation curable inkjet ink.

A camera system comprising:

• • at least one area image sensor for imaging a scene;
  • a camera processor means for processing said image scene in accordance with a predetermined scene transformation requirement; and
  • a printer for printing out said processed image scene on print media, utilizing printing ink stored in a single detachable module inside said camera system;
  • said camera system comprising a portable hand held unit for the imaging of scenes by said area image sensor and printing said scenes directly out of said camera system via said printer.

Ink jet printing can be used in the production of electro-optic displays for (a) forming a layer of a polymer-dispersed electrophoretic medium on a substrate; (b) forming a color electro-optic layer; (c) forming a color filter; and (d) printing electrodes and/or associated conductors on a layer of electro-optic material.

A printing method includes steps of applying an ink-receptive coating to a substrate; printing an actinic radiation-curable ink jet ink over the coating; and curing the printed ink jet ink. An article printed by the method has a ink-receptive coating layer with a cured print. An apparatus for carrying out the method includes a coating station at which the ink-receptive coating is applied to a substrate, an ink jet printhead at which the energy-curable ink jet ink is applied, and a source of actinic radiation for curing the applied ink. The ink may be applied in sufficient amount to achieve a color density comparable to that obtained using other printing processes such as flexographic or gravure printing processes. The ink-receptive coating layer may be of a thickness sufficient to provide improve surface smoothness and/or reduced drop spread relative to an uncoated substrate.

A method of enhancing print quality of a continuous ink jet printing device and such a printing device in which selected droplets in a stream of droplets are selectively deflected to impinge on a print medium, the method including the steps of providing a plurality of ink droplets, each printing ink-droplet being substantially same size, providing a gas flow that deflects the plurality of ink droplets, monitoring uniformity of the gas flow, and adjusting a flow characteristic of the gas flow based on the monitored uniformity. The step of adjusting flow characteristic of the gas flow is attained by changing flow rate of the gas flow or flow area of the outlet. In one embodiment, the step of monitoring uniformity of gas flow includes monitoring trajectory paths of the deflected plurality of ink droplets.

Specific core-shell binders and additives for use in ink-jet printing ink compositions are provided. One class of specific core/shell binders has the general formula [AmBnC'p]x, where A and B are hydrophobic components in which A exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg between about -150° and +25° C. and B exhibits a glass transition temperature greater than 25° C., C' is a component that forms a hydrophilic or water-soluble component in the polymer chain, and has an ionic or non-ionic structure, m<30 wt %, n>40 wt %, and p<30 wt %, with the total of m+n+p=100 wt %, and x=1 to 100,000. The molecular weight (weight average) of the polymer is between about 1,000 and 2,000,000. The polymers useful in the practice of the invention are prepared by emulsifying the monomers and then conducting a free-radical polymerization in water. The foregoing binder polymer is used in conjunction with additives comprising either (a) amine alcohols having the general formulawhere R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, and phenoxy, R is alkyl, X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, -OH, -COOH, -CHO, and substituted groups or (b) organic acids (water-soluble or water-dispersive), including polymeric acids. Other additives include amines, polyalcohols, polyamines, and polyesters. In the ink compositions of the present invention, the ratio of binder (1) to colorant (pigment) is greater than 1 to 10. The concentration of the additive is within the range of 0.005 to 50 wt %. The general ink formulation comprises: 5 to 50 wt % water-miscible solvent; 0.5 to 10 wt % colorant; 0.005 to 50 wt % additive; and water.

An ink cleaner consists of fatty acid monoalkyl ester, water, a water soluble nonionic surfactant, an anion active agent and a cosurfactant. The ink cleaner provided by the invention has the advantages of simple preparation, stable latex, strong cleansing power and the like and is especially applicable to cleaning printing ink.

To carry out drying of printing ink with the use of Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam. Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam being clustered on Nano oder is generated and jetted to the print side of printed material so that the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam imparts intramolecular vibrational energy to ink of the print side. Consequently, the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam being clustered on Nano oder not only passes through fiber pores in the printed material but also collides with the ink of the print side. The Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam having collided with the ink of the print side imparts thermally excited energy as intramolecular vibrational energy to the ink containing polar molecules. The ink is dried by the intramolecular energy.

A polymeric dispersant of the structure:

wherein R₁ is selected from the group consisting of H, CH₃, and a combination thereof, and n is an integer from 4 to 200, for use in printing inks.

A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising: a support; an image recording layer comprising (A) an actinic ray absorber, (B) a polymerization initiator, and (C) a polymerizable compound, wherein the image recording layer is capable of being removed with at least one of a printing ink and a fountain solution; and an overcoat layer comprising an inorganic laminar compound. And a lithographic printing method comprising: mounting a lithographic printing plate precursor on a printing press; imagewise exposing the lithographic printing plate precursor with laser beams; and feeding at least one of a printing ink and a fountain solution to the lithographic printing plate precursor to remove a laser beams non-exposed area in an image recording layer; and performing printing.

The invention discloses a conductive graphene carbon slurry printing ink and a preparation method thereof; the printing ink comprises a conductive function unit containing graphene, solvent, auxiliary agent and resin bridging agent; the components comprise 10-70 parts of conductive units by weight, 10-90 parts of solvent by weight, 0.1-30 parts of auxiliary agent by weight, and 0-70 parts of resin bridging agent by weight. The preparation method comprises the preparation of conductive unit dispersion liquid and the preparation of conductive slurry. The preparation method of the conductive graphene carbon slurry printing ink is simple in method; compared with the conventional carbon slurry, the conductive graphene carbon slurry printing ink is high in conductivity, thin, uniform and smooth in printing film, excellent in performance, and is suitable for many printing technology and base materials.

Provided are an electrode for a secondary battery employing an active material layer having improved thickness uniformity by printing low-viscosity ink on the active material layer, a manufacturing method of the electrode, and a secondary battery having improved electrode capacity due to the employing of the electrode. The electrode includes a current collector, and an active material layer formed by printing ink having a viscosity not exceeding 500 mPa·s on the current collector and drying the current collector, wherein the current collector has a surface roughness (Ra) in a range from about 0.025 to 1.0 μm.

The present invention features a multi-layer ink-jet recording medium, suitable for recording images with dye and pigmented inks and thereby providing light-emitting, reflective, glossy, metallic-looking or holographic images, comprising a substrate coated with at least two layers comprising: (a) a first transparent ink-receptive layer comprising a polymeric binder and a cross-linker and optionally having a plasticizer and pigment particles such as alumina and silica coated over the substrate, wherein the cross-linker comprises and azetidinium polymer or a salt thereof, and/or a polyfunctinal aziridine or a salt thereof or a polyfunctional oxazoline or a salt thereof; and (b) a second ink-receptive layer comprising an opaque or semi-opaque coating composition, wherein the opaque or semi-opaque coating composition is capable of accepting a printed image and thereby becoming semi transparent or clearly transparent from application of ink-jet printing ink or similar inks, while presenting a light-emitting, reflective, glossy, metallic-looking or holographic image of high clarity and quality, wherein said first layer is located between said second layer and the substrate in said recording medium and the first and second layers are chemically coupled.

The present invention provides a method for forming an electrode of a flat panel display device using ink for ink jet printing and an ink jet printer. The ink for ink jet printing is prepared by a method comprising the first step of contacting the vapor of a metal with the vapor of the first solvent, according to the vapor phase-evaporation technique, to thus give a dispersion of metal ultrafine particles; the second step of adding a low molecular weight polar solvent as the second solvent to the dispersion prepared in the first step to thus precipitate the metal ultrafine particles and removing the first solvent; and the third step of adding the third solvent to the precipitates thus prepared to carry out the solvent substitution and to give a dispersion of independently dispersed metal ultrafine particles, and prepared by adding a dispersant in or during the foregoing first and/or third steps, and the ink for ink jet printing consists of a dispersion excellent in ink characteristic properties. In the dispersion, metal ultrafine particles having a particle size of not more than 100 nm are independently and uniformly dispersed. The electrodes of FPD devices are formed using this ink for ink jet printing.

The invention relates to block-copolymeric polyalkylene oxides containing styrene oxide, obtained by alkoxylation, and their use as low-foam pigment wetting agents in aqueous pigment pastes with or without cosolvent and in aqueous and low-solvent coating materials and printing inks.

Disclosed herein is an illuminated signboard using a plane light source in which edges of two light guide plates are cut in an inclined form, an opaque plate having high surface reflectivity is inserted between the two light guide plates to optically block the two light guide plates from each other, and the light guide plates and the opaque plate are combined to form a second lighting part. U-shaped frames including LEDs are connected to construct a frame housing and the second lighting part is combined with the frame housing. Light emitted from the LEDs and transmitted in the light guide plates is dispersed by a dispersing mechanism formed on the backsides of the light guide plates using paint, print ink or engraving to transmit the light guide plates and graphics or natural color pictures formed on transparent plates attached to the outer sides of the light guide plates so as to illuminate the graphics or the natural color pictures.

This invention provides a printing head which can prevent an increase in the number of block enable signal lines, and can prevent changes in printing ink density caused by interference due to the relative pressures of nozzles generated in ink discharge, and an image printing apparatus using the printing head. For this purpose, an increase in the number of input signal lines along with an increase in the number of blocks is prevented using a block clock signal or the like instead of a block enable signal as an input signal to the printing head. Three ring counters generate signals having different nozzle driving orders. These signals are selectively used by a ring counter selection signal. Ink is not always discharged from the nozzles in the same output order. This can prevent changes in ink density caused by pressure interference.

This invention pertains to inkjet printing on non-porous or low porous media and to a pretreatment solution for the non-porous or low porous media that allows high quality printing thereon. The preferred digitally printed inks are disperse dye or pigmented inks.

The invention provides a wet-method transfer printing process of natural fiber and nylon, which mainly comprises the following steps: (1) selecting acidic printing ink or active printing ink; (2) printing: printing the surface of PET or BOPP film with the selected printing ink to obtain a transfer printed film; (3) transfer printing: treating natural fiber and nylon with a soaking liquid, subjecting the transfer printed film and printed fabric simultaneously to the compression by a rolling machine; and (4) oven-drying: oven-drying the fabric after the transfer printing is completed and baking to allow color fixation. The invention has the advantages of high transfer printing rate, high color yield of fabric, bright color, good color fastness, less pollution, reduced water consumption, simple process, high production efficiency, low cost, and success in non-paper transfer printing.

The invention discloses the ultra-violet light solidified printing ink. The ultra-violet light solidified printing ink hasn't volatile organic solvent, avoiding the pollution and improving the durability and flexible. The invention uses the national standard GB/T 1731-93 to test, and the baseboard uses soft PVC film. The invention uses national standard GB/T 1766-95 to test durability, and uses GB/T 1865-97 to test printing ink. The flexible is 1mm, the discoloration is 2 grade, the efflorescence is 0 grade, and the cracking is 0 grade.

A printing unit for a web-fed rotary printing machine is provided having at least one carrying wall, a plurality of cylinders mounted on the carrying wall, a drive motor corresponding to each cylinder and a slide corresponding to each cylinder. Each slide carries its corresponding cylinder and receives the corresponding drive motor. A drive means is provided for driving the slides and a plurality of guide elements are mounted on the carrying wall and arranged laterally next to the adjacent end faces of the cylinders for guiding the slides along the wall. The guide elements are arranged opposite and parallel to one another on the carrying wall. Optionally, the carrying wall includes panels defining an orifice to allow cylinders, journals and sleeves of the printing machine of varying sizes to be changed readily.

The invention provides a method for printing a pattern of ink on a substrate, such as corrugated paperboard, with a relief printing form made from a photosensitive element. The method includes forming an in-situ mask for the photosensitive element, exposing the element to actinic radiation through the in-situ mask in an environment having an inert gas and a concentration of oxygen between 190,000 and 100 ppm, and treating the exposed element to form the relief printing form having a pattern of printing areas. Printing is accomplished by securing the relief printing form to a print press, applying the ink to the printing areas on the printing form, and contacting the ink from the printing areas to the substrate to transfer the pattern of ink onto the substrate.

A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a memory. The memory includes means for spacing ink stroke representations, means for recognizing outline elements, means for performing deferred recognition, means for highlighting drawing areas and means for storing and displaying ink stroke representations. These means operate together to provide a pen-based or graphics oriented computer system with improved performance and added functionality for manipulating the space between ink stroke representations. The preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises several novel methods that provide this functionality including: a method for managing space between ink stroke representations, a method for displaying drawing elements in a visually distinct manner, a method for recognizing bullets and dashes, a method for storing ink stroke representations, a method for displaying and printing ink stroke representations, and a method for performing deferred character or word recognition.

The invention relates to light-cured ink jet nanometer conductive printing ink for printed circuit boards, and preparation and use methods thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: an acrylic ester low viscosity resin and an acrylic ester active monomer are added into nanometer metal dispersing solution and the mixture adopts a double cured mode that the mixture is subjected to light cure firstly and heat treatment secondly, wherein the light-cured treatment ensures that a coat is cured rapidly and achieves good mechanical performance; and the heat treatment ensures that the nanometer metal is nodulized together to achieve good conductive performance. The light-cured ink jet nanometer conductive printing ink which adopts the ink jet technique can be painted in the specific area of a base material. A conductive path is obtained after the double cured treatment. The light-cured ink jet nanometer conductive printing ink has the advantages of short cured time, low cured temperature, good conductivity and high resolving capability. The manufactured conductive membrane has good adhesiveness, high hardness, good flexibility and excellent conductivity.

A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising: a support; an undercoat layer; and an image recording layer containing a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and an infrared ray absorbing agent, the image recording layer being removable with at least one of a printing ink and a fountain solution, in this order, wherein the undercoat layer contains a compound having (a) an ethylenically unsaturated bond and (b) a functional group capable of adsorbing to a surface of the support.

A water plastic-film intaglio printing ink consists of alkali soluble acrylic copolymer, low-Tg value acrylate copolymer emulsion, high-Tg value acrylate copolymer emulsion, silicon modified acrylate copolymer emulsion as grinding dispersing medium and filming medium. Adhesion modifier, interface modifier and other various accessories are added into ink and the ink can be produced proportionally for red ink, yellow ink, blue ink, black ink and other-color inks. It has bright color, better saturation degree, alkali-resistance and dispersion.

The invention discloses magnetic OVP, said pigment consisting of thin-layer flakes having a basic metal-dielectric-metal structure to result in a viewing-angle dependent color appearance, and having, in addition to said viewing-angle dependent color appearance, incorporated magnetic properties, to make them distinguishable from OVP of similar appearance but not having said magnetic properties. The invention discloses as well methods for obtaining such pigments and the use of such pigments as security elements in inks, coatings and articles.

An easily adhesive polyamide film has been created from unstretched or uniaxially stretched non-heated polyamide film coated with a water-base coating mixture, whose main constituents are (A) water polyurethane resin containing acetylene glycol in which each carbon atom immediately adjacent to the triple-bonded carbon atom is replaced with a hydroxyl group and a methyl group, and/or an ethylene oxide addition product of the acetylene glycol; (B) a water-soluble polyepoxy compound; and (C) particles with an average diameter between 0.001 and 1.0 mum, of which the solid-content weight ratio is 98-30/2-70/0.1-10, the coating amount after stretching is between 0.005 and 0.030 g/m2, and the film is stretched in at least one direction and then heated. This newly invented film possesses good blocking resistance and excellent adhesiveness with print ink, laminate, and other coating mixtures, and is especially suitable for boiling sterilization, retort sterilization, and packaging of liquids.

A printed cloth in which a dye is deposited in dots on the cloth to form a desired printed pattern. Said dot deposition is formed in a length of 0.05 to 0.3 mm to the longitudinal direction of the fiber in single fiber unit of the yarn constituting said cloth. A fine printed pattern is deposited clearly in good reproducibility. The printed pattern can be formed by using the dyes of the three primary colors or of the three primary colors and black color. It is preferred that Dyes I, II and III having a perceived chromaticity index (a) and (b) defined in the color range [CIE 1976 (L, a, b) space] on the cloth within the following range are used as said dyes of three primary colors and DyeIV is used as said black dye. - I Yellow: (a) -20 DIFFERENCE 0 (b) 50 DIFFERENCE 90 - II Red: (a) 50 DIFFERENCE 70 (b) 0 DIFFERENCE 20 - III Blue: (a) -50 DIFFERENCE -1 (b) -50 DIFFERENCE -20 - IV Black: (a) -6 DIFFERENCE 6 (b) -6 DIFFERENCE 6 - Such a printed cloth can be prepared by a procedure in which a printing ink is deposited in dots on the surface of a cloth by using a dye spraying device having a nozzle of 80 dots/mm or more and controlled based on the image signal.

Polymer emulsion compositions for use in printing inks and printing inks made from the compositions are provided. The emulsion compositions include an aqueous continuous phase containing water and a dissolved carboxylic acid-functional support polymer. The dispersed phase of the emulsion composition contains crosslinked, dispersed polymer particles. The emulsion compositions also include at least one multivalent metal crosslinker and at least one stabilizing agent. The polymer emulsion compositions display superior printability properties in inks and other coatings formulated with them, yet are stable at elevated temperatures for long periods of time.