Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080218570 | IMAGING ON FLEXIBLE PACKAGING SUBSTRATES - Methods and devices for forming, such as by printing, high quality, high throughput, ultraviolet curable gel ink images on flexible substrates for packaging applications are disclosed. The methods and devices have excellent image quality and do not require pinning of the ink during color printing or nitrogen inerting during curing. | 09-11-2008 |
20090038506 | Phase change ink compositions - A radiation curable phase change ink comprising a white colorant; a colorant dispersant; and an ink vehicle comprising at least one curable monomer; at least one gellant; optionally at least one photoinitiator; optionally at least one stabilizer; and optionally at least one wax. | 02-12-2009 |
20090097898 | HAND HELD PHOTOCHROMIC MARKING IMPLEMENT - Disclosed is a hand-held photochromic marking implement including photochromic colorants and a solid phase colorant carrier which can be used in direct-to-media marking and a method of forming same. | 04-16-2009 |
20090234041 | RADIATION CURABLE INK CONTAINING A CURABLE WAX - Curable monomer that is liquid at 25° C., curable wax and colorant together form a radiation curable ink. This ink may be used to form images by providing the radiation curable ink at a first temperature; applying the radiation curable ink to the substrate to form an image, the substrate being at a second temperature, which is below the first temperature; and exposing the radiation curable ink to radiation to cure the ink. | 09-17-2009 |
20100053287 | Ultra-Violet Curable Gellant Inks For Braille, Raised Print, And Regular Print Applications - An ink jet printing device including an ink jet print head and a print region surface toward which ink is jetted from the ink jet print head, wherein a height distance between the ink jet print head and the print region surface is adjustable; wherein the ink jet print head jets an ultra-violet curable phase change ink composition comprising an optional colorant and a phase change ink vehicle comprising a radiation curable monomer, or prepolymer; a photoinitiator; a reactive wax; and a gellant; wherein a print deposited upon the print region surface is Braille, raised print, or a combination of regular print and one or both of Braille and raised print. | 03-04-2010 |
20100075038 | Ink Carriers Containing Low Viscosity Functionalized Waxes, Phase Change Inks Including Same, And Methods For Making Same - A phase change ink including a colorant and a carrier including a tri-ester of the formula | 03-25-2010 |
20100130657 | SOLID INKS WITH LOWER COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION - A phase change ink that includes a colorant and a phase change ink carrier. The phase change ink carrier includes a diblock or tri-block co-oligomer wax of the formula H | 05-27-2010 |
20100323102 | System and Method for Preparing Conductive Structures Using Radiation Curable Phase Change Gel Inks - A system and method for preparing conductive features on a substrate including printing a radiation curable phase change gel masking material in a pattern of fillable channels on a surface of a substrate; curing the radiation curable phase change gel masking material; depositing a conductive material in the fillable channels; annealing the conductive material; and, optionally, removing the radiation curable phase change gel masking material. In embodiments, ultra-violet curable phase change gel is used to digitally prepare a pattern of dams for containing a thick layer of conductive material which is annealed to form an electronic structure. | 12-23-2010 |
20120175820 | DIGITALLY PREPARED STAMP MASTERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - Positive and negative stamp masters derived from UV curable ink molds comprising ultraviolet (UV) curable inks and methods for digitally preparing those stamp masters. In particular, the digitally prepared molds provide a method of printing micropatterns of fine variable features or images in a more efficient manner than the methods currently available. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177769 | DIGITALLY PREPARED STAMP MASTERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - Positive and negative stamp masters derived from UV curable ink molds comprising ultraviolet (UV) curable inks and methods for digitally preparing those stamp masters. In particular, the digitally prepared molds provide a method of printing micropatterns of fine variable features or images in a more efficient manner than the methods currently available. | 07-12-2012 |
20120302658 | BLACK ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE INKS - There is provided novel black ultraviolet (UV) curable ink compositions having substantially improved curing properties. The novel ink comprises low levels of carbon black in combination with two or more other colored or non-black pigments which result in a black UV curable gel ink with superior cure compared to conventional all-carbon black loaded UV curable gel inks. | 11-29-2012 |
20140071213 | Phase Change Ink Compositions For Image Robustness - A phase change ink composition including a carrier; a colorant; and an acidic wax which is present in an amount of 0.1 to less than about 6 percent by weight based on the total weight of the phase change ink composition. | 03-13-2014 |
20140154502 | SURFACE LAYER - There is described a surface layer or coating of a fluoropolymer. Dispersed in the fluoropolymer is a compound of the formula: | 06-05-2014 |