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US 11,001,965 B2Granted
Textile printing with inkjet inks
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHector Lebron, Raffaella Fior, Stephen G. Rudisill, Jesiska Tandy, Alexey S. Kabalnov
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Abstract
A printing method includes selecting an inkjet ink including a dye, and selecting an active agent, including an electromagnetic radiation-absorbing active material, and an aqueous or non-aqueous vehicle. The method further includes inkjet printing the dye sublimation inkjet ink and the active agent directly onto a textile fabric. The textile fabric having the ink and active agent thereon is exposed to electromagnetic radiation.
Claims16
A printing method, comprising:
- selecting an inkjet ink including a dye;
- selecting an active agent, including:
- an electromagnetic radiation-absorbing active material;
- and
- an aqueous or non-aqueous vehicle;
- inkjet printing the inkjet ink and the active agent directly onto a textile fabric;
- and
- exposing the textile fabric having the ink and active agent thereon to electromagnetic radiation, wherein the exposing is accomplished at an amount of time ranging from about 1 second to about 15 seconds.
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A printing method, comprising:
- selecting an inkjet ink including a dye;
- selecting an active agent, including:
- an electromagnetic radiation-absorbing active material;
- and
- an aqueous or non-aqueous vehicle;
- inkjet printing the inkjet ink and the active agent directly onto a textile fabric;
- and
- exposing the textile fabric having the ink and active agent thereon to electromagnetic radiation;
- wherein the inkjet ink is a dye sublimation inkjet ink, and wherein the method further comprises warming the textile fabric having the ink and active agent thereon at a temperature below a sublimation temperature of the dye sublimation inkjet ink:
- i) before the exposing;
- or ii) concurrently with the exposing;
- or iii) both before and concurrently with the exposing;
- and wherein the temperature at which the textile fabric is warmed ranges from about 110° C. to about 150° C.
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A printing method, comprising:
- selecting an inkjet ink including a dye;
- selecting an active agent, including:
- an electromagnetic radiation-absorbing active material;
- and
- an aqueous or non-aqueous vehicle;
- inkjet printing the inkjet ink and the active agent directly onto a textile fabric;
- and
- exposing the textile fabric having the ink and active agent thereon to electromagnetic radiation;
- wherein the inkjet ink is a dye sublimation inkjet ink, and wherein the method further comprises warming the textile fabric having the ink and active agent thereon at a temperature below a sublimation temperature of the dye sublimation inkjet ink:
- i) before the exposing;
- or ii) concurrently with the exposing;
- or iii) both before and concurrently with the exposing;
- and wherein the warming takes place for an amount of time ranging from about 0.1 seconds to about 30 seconds.
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A printing method, comprising:
- selecting an inkjet ink including a dye;
- selecting an active agent, including:
- an electromagnetic radiation-absorbing active material;
- and
- an aqueous or non-aqueous vehicle;
- inkjet printing the inkjet ink and the active agent directly onto a textile fabric;
- and
- exposing the textile fabric having the ink and active agent thereon to electromagnetic radiation;
- wherein:
- the inkjet ink is a dye sublimation inkjet ink;
- the active agent is applied directly onto the textile fabric before the dye sublimation inkjet ink is applied;
- and
- the method further comprises warming the textile fabric having the active agent thereon at a temperature below a sublimation temperature of the dye sublimation inkjet ink:
- i) before the dye sublimation inkjet ink is applied;
- and ii) before the exposing.
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A liquid fluid set for dye sublimation inkjet printing, comprising:
- a dye sublimation inkjet ink;
- and
- an active agent, including:
- an electromagnetic radiation-absorbing active material;
- and
- an aqueous or non-aqueous vehicle;
- wherein the electromagnetic radiation-absorbing active material comprises a plasmonic resonance absorber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.