Fabric printable medium
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsXiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu, Dheya M. Alfekri, Douglas Knight, Ronald J. Selensky
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Abstract
A fabric printable medium includes a fabric base substrate, which includes yarn strands and voids among the yarn strands. The fabric printable medium further includes a finishing coating attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands. The finishing coating includes a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network. The fabric printable medium has pore spaces among the coated yarn strands that coincide with at least some of the voids of the fabric base substrate.
Claims16
A fabric printable medium, comprising:
- a fabric base substrate including yarn strands and voids among the yarn strands;
- a finishing coating attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands, the finishing coating including a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network, wherein the first and second crosslinked polymeric networks collectively represent from about 80 wt % to about 99 wt % of a total weight of the finishing coating;
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- pore spaces among the coated yarn strands and coinciding with at least some of the voids of the fabric base substrate.
A fabric printable medium, comprising:
- a fabric base substrate including yarn strands and voids among the yarn strands;
- a finishing coating attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands, the finishing coating including a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network;
- pore spaces among the coated yarn strands and coinciding with at least some of the voids of the fabric base substrate;
- a waterproof coating attached to a back-side of the coated yarn strands, wherein the waterproof coating includes:
- a physical networking agent selected from the group consisting of an acrylate copolymer, a polyacrylic acid copolymer, a polyether copolymer, a polyurethane copolymer, and combinations thereof, the physical networking agent having a weight average molecular weight from 300,000 Mw to 1,000,000 Mw;
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- a waterproof agent selected from the group consisting of polyvinylidene chloride, a polyolefin, poly(ethylene terephthalate), a wax, perfluorooctane sulfonate, perfluorooctanoic acid, a hydrogen siloxane, a long chain hydrocarbon, and a modified fatty resin.
A method for forming a fabric printable medium, comprising:
- applying a finishing composition, including a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network, to yarn strands of a fabric base substrate, thereby forming a finishing coating i) attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands, and ii) having a dry coat-weight of 6 gsm or less;
- and pore spaces among the coated yarn strands that coincide with at least some voids of the fabric base substrate, wherein the first and second crosslinked polymeric networks collectively represent from about 80 wt % to about 99 wt % of a total weight of the finishing coating.
A printing method, comprising:
- obtaining a fabric printable medium including:
- a fabric base substrate including yarn strands and voids among the yarn strands;
- a finishing coating attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands, the finishing coating including a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network, wherein the first and second crosslinked polymeric networks collectively represent from about 80 wt % to about 99 wt % of a total weight of the finishing coating;
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- pore spaces among the coated yarn strands and coinciding with at least some of the voids of the fabric base substrate;
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- applying an ink composition onto an image-side of the coated yarn strands to form a printed image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.