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US 10,202,516 B2Granted
Printed matter, printer, and printing method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTatsuya Tomura, Yoshimasa Miyazawa, Takuya Fujita
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Abstract
A printed matter is provided. The printed matter comprises a print medium and a print layer on the print medium. The print medium comprises a porous layer having an average pore diameter of from 100 to 400 nm and an average thickness of from 1 to 50 μm. The print layer comprises silver and an aliphatic compound having amino group and hydroxyl group, and has an average thickness of from 50 to 300 nm.
Claims16
A printed matter comprising:
- a print medium comprising a porous layer having an average pore diameter of from 100 to 400 nm and an average thickness of from 1 to 50 μm;
- and
- a print layer on the print medium, the print layer comprising silver and an aliphatic compound having amino group and hydroxyl group, the print layer having an average thickness of from 50 to 300 nm.
A printer comprising:
- a print medium comprising a porous layer having an average pore diameter of from 100 to 400 nm and an average thickness of from 1 to 50 μm;
- an ink comprising silver particles and an aliphatic compound having amino group and hydroxyl group;
- and
- a print layer former configured to apply the ink onto the print medium to form a print layer thereon.
1 more element
A printing method comprising:
- forming a print layer having an average thickness of from 50 to 300 nm on a print medium with an ink to form a printed matter,
- wherein the print medium comprises a porous layer having an average pore diameter of from 100 to 400 nm and an average thickness of from 1 to 50 μm,
- wherein the ink comprises silver particles and an aliphatic compound having amino group and hydroxyl group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.