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| 8114485 | Water resistant shrinkable medium for receiving ink The present subject matter includes apparatus and methods for a heat shrinkable water resistant image medium. The method can include providing a shrinkable coating comprising a polyurethane dispersion and applying the coating to a shrinkable substrate. The shrinkabl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8053044 | Media for inkjet web press printing A print media for inkjet web-press printing includes a paper base and a porous surface treatment. The porous surface treatment layer includes an inorganic pigment; at least one water-soluble and/or water-dispersible polymeric carrier; and at least one fixer. The fix... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8034422 | Glossy inkjet recording medium and methods therefor A manufacturing an ink-receiving medium comprising the steps of providing a support, treating the support with a salt of a multivalent metal cation, and coating upon one or each side of the support at least one porous ink-receiving top layer from an aqueous coating ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7972665 | Ink jet recording medium 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... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7923081 | Recording medium for water-based ink and method for determining ink absorbing characteristic thereof A mat type recording medium for ink jet printing is provided which exhibits optimum printability no matter which of dye ink and pigment ink may be used in printing. The recording medium, which is for recording with use of water-based ink containing an ink colorant, ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7867585 | Support for image recording material and image recording material A support for image recording material, comprising a base paper and thermoplastic resin layers formed on both faces of the base paper, wherein: a formation index of the base paper is 60 or more; a surface of the base paper, at least on a side where an image recordin... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7811643 | Inkjet recording sheet Provided is an inkjet recording sheet. The inkjet recording sheet includes a support film comprising homopolypropylene, a propylene-ethylene random copolymer, a propylene-ethylene block copolymer, high-density polyethylene, and polystyrene, a primer layer having lar... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7785679 | Support for image recording material and image recording material A support for an image recording material for receiving at least an image recording layer. The center surface average roughness SRa of the support surface to be provided with an image recording layer is 0.15 μm or less when measured under a condition of a cutoff of... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7771804 | Inkjet recording medium An inkjet recording medium, including a support and an ink receiving layer formed on at least one face of the support, wherein the inkjet recording medium satisfies at least one of the following conditions (i) and (ii): (i) the ari... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7754296 | Ink-jet media having an ink-vehicle permeable coating and a microporous coating An ink-jet media having an absorbent substrate with a front surface and a back surface. The front surface of the substrate is coated with an ink-vehicle permeable, preferably radiation-cured coating. A microporous ink-receptive coating is deposited on top of the ink... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7704573 | Porous membrane and recording medium comprising same The present invention relates to a porous membrane comprising multiple layers, at least one type of curable compound and at least two types of photo-initiator, wherein at least two layers each contain a the different photo-initiator. The invention further relates to... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7700169 | Recording sheet for ink jet printing A recording sheet for ink jet printing is described, which consists of a paper support having coated on the front side of the support at least one ink-receiving layer consisting of fumed silicon dioxide with a positively charged surface and at least one binder, wher... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7648746 | Ink jet recording paper An ink jet recording paper capable of compatible with high speed ink jet printers is provided. By using, as a fiber material, mercerized pulp obtained by applying an alkali treatment to pulp, an ink jet recording paper of high ink absorption speed and high ink color... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7563493 | Ink jet recording medium, method of ink jet image formation and photographic print An inkjet-recording medium has excellent various preservabilities, for example, the lightfastness of an image, resistance to bleeding under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions, and resistance to indoor fading and discoloration when a surface of a printing ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7364800 | Biaxially oriented polyester film with adhesion-promoting coating 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 o... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7291447 | Print medium with one side defined by a rib-like structure A print medium includes a planar film. A rib-like structure is arranged on one side of the film to define a series of columns that extend a length of the film to facilitate rolling of the print medium in one direction as opposed to an opposite direction. ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7264855 | Imaging member with vacuous core base The invention relates to an imaging member comprising an image layer and a base material wherein said base material comprises at least one oriented sheet laminated to a core sheet comprising a vacuous composite of polyolefin and polyester having a density of less th... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7244478 | Recording medium having ink-receiving layer and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a recording medium with an excellent productivity is provided. The method provides a recording medium having excellent ink absorbency and coloring property and includes an ink-receiving layer in which a binder is restricted and controlled. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7216967 | Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording method includes: forming a color image with color inks by while scanning a recording head multiple times on a same recording area, forming a thinned-out image, the recording head having a plurality of nozzle sections for jetting the color inks, w... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7204588 | Ink jet printed matter A printed mater prepared by jetted ink. The ink is hardened by irradiation of radiation or heat, and the ratio of total thickness of the ink layer to total thickness of the substrate is from 0.40 to 0.05. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199182 | Aqueous resin composition, ink jet recording material and ink jet recording method An aqueous resin composition is provided which does not use a high boiling point solvent, and yet displays favorable long term stability and excellent film formation, and does not suffer from problems such as skin generation. The aqueous resin composition comprises ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192476 | Fluorescent water base ink for ink-jet recording A fluorescent water base ink for ink-jet recording contains a fluorescent dye having a xanthene skeleton, and a glycol. In the fluorescent dye, the difference in hydrophilic index log P is not less than 2.6 between a substituent bonded to C-9 carbon atom of the xant... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7186499 | Print medium with anisotropic bending properties A print medium includes a sheet. A plurality of parallel rib elements extend along the sheet and are configured to provide the sheet with anisotropic bending properties. ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7151131 | Composition and media A coating composition comprising pigment, medium and a binder characterised in that (i) the binder comprises a cationic polymer comprising a repeat unit of Formula (1): wherein: | 12/19/2006 |
| 7141280 | Macroporous ink receiving media The invention provides an ink receiving medium comprising a macroporous substrate having a fluid management system and having a pigment management system in contact with surfaces of macropores of the substrate therein. In one embodiment, the pigment management syste... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7125611 | Polyester compositions useful for image-receiving layers The invention relates to a composition comprising a polyester copolymer that comprises (a) recurring dibasic acid derived units and polyol derived units, at least 50 mole % of the dibasic acid derived units comprising dicarboxylic acid derived units each containing ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122232 | Expandable print medium A print medium that is expandable and collapsible comprises two sheets separated by at least one collapsible brace. The collapsible brace includes a first wall attached to one of the sheets and a second wall that swings in relation to the first wall. The swinging mo... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122239 | Opaque polyester film containing a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) with good surface attachment, method for producing the same and use thereof The invention relates to an opaque, biaxially oriented polyester film comprising at least one base layer, characterized in that at least this base layer contains a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) in a concnetration of 2 to 60 wt. % in relation to the base layer, the g... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7097899 | Carrier of information bearing a watermark An information carrier comprising a support and a receiving layer is disclosed, together with the method of preparation. The information carrier further comprises (optionally personalized) information applied, preferably by ink jet printing, on the receiver layer, a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7074465 | Inkjet recording element comprising polyester ionomer and a method of use An inkjet recording element comprising an ink-permeable microvoided substrate comprising a porous ink-receiving layer over and adjacent to an ink-permeable microvoided substrate layer comprising, in a polyester continuous phase, a polyester ionomer, wherein the micr... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7070840 | Inkjet recording sheet An inkjet recording sheet has a colorant-receiving layer on a support. The colorant-receiving layer is provided with at least one of compounds represented by the following formulas (1) to (4) and which has either or both of an I/O value of at least 0.5 and a water s... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063940 | Curl resistant media A curl-resistant planar media comprises a plurality of fibers embedded in the media and configured such that the media has a stiffness in a first direction that exceeds the stiffness in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7056969 | Ink jet recording material suitable for use in wide format printing applications An aqueous coating formulation for use in preparing ink jet recording materials is provided. The coating formulation, which employs porous pigments and/or metal oxide gels in combination with inorganic pigments (i.e., calcium carbonate and mixtures of calcium carbon... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7014893 | Support material for recording layers A support material comprises a raw paper that may be coated on at least one side with a synthetic resin, and the raw paper or the resin coating on the raw paper is provided at least on the front side with a pigment layer wherein the pigment layer contains at least a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6984423 | Ink jet recording paper The present invention provides less expensive ink jet recording papers having high glossiness and high durability and being capable of quickly absorbing inks without causing bleeding. Accordingly, the present invention provides an ink jet recording paper having an i... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6977112 | Non-contact information recording medium for ink-jet recording and image forming process Disclosed herein is a non-contact information recording medium for ink-jet recording, on and from which information can be recorded and read in a non-contact state from the outside, comprising an electronic information storing circuit part and an image recording par... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974609 | Media for cold image transfer Image transfer media and methods of transferring images are provided. The image transfer media comprise a sheet having a nonporous micro-embossed surface topography comprising cavities on one major surface of the sheet and an ink release coating on the embossed surf... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6953618 | Light-stable colored transparent composite films Composite film structures exhibit a predetermined finished color tone comprised of a transparent film layer which exhibits a color deficiency as compared to the finished color tone, and a pigment which is visually associated with, and satisfies the color deficiency ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6911239 | Recording material and method A recording material which comprises a polymeric substrate having two surfaces, wherein one surface is coated with a sealing layer comprising a particulate polymer having a film forming temperature of between 60° C. and 160° C. and an average particle size between... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6896941 | Polyester film for use as an ink image receiving base film and ink 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 particl... | 05/24/2005 |
