Digital offset lithography ink composition
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsC. Geoffrey Allen, Carolyn Moorlag, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis, Biby Esther Abraham, Jonathan Siu-Chung Lee
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Abstract
An ink composition for use in digital offset printing including at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer; an optional dispersant; an optional photoinitiator; and at least one non-radiation curable additive, wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a detergent or an emulsifying agent, or wherein the non-radiation curable additive functions as a detergent or emulsifying agent when in the presence of a cleaning fluid, and wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a solid at a temperature of from about 20° C. to about 40° C.
Claims21
An ink composition for use in digital offset printing, comprising:
- at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer;
- an optional dispersant;
- an optional photoinitiator;
- and
- at least one non-radiation curable additive,
- wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a detergent or an emulsifying agent, or wherein the non-radiation curable additive functions as a detergent or emulsifying agent when in the presence of a cleaning fluid,
- wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a solid at a temperature of from about 20° C. to about 40° C., and
- wherein the non-radiation curable additive is behenyl behenate or polycaprolactone-block-polytetrahydrofuran-block-polycaprolactone.
A process of digital offset printing with a digital offset printing device, the process comprising:
- applying an ink composition onto a re-imageable imaging member surface at an ink take up temperature, the re-imageable imaging member having dampening fluid disposed thereon;
- forming an ink image;
- transferring the ink image from the re-imageable surface of the imaging member to a printable substrate at an ink transfer temperature;
- wherein the ink composition comprises:
- at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer;
- an optional dispersant;
- an optional photoinitiator;
- and
- at least one non-radiation curable additive,
- wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a detergent or an emulsifying agent, or wherein the non-radiation curable additive functions as a detergent or emulsifying agent when in the presence of a cleaning fluid,
- wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a solid at a temperature of from about 20° C. to about 40° C.,
- wherein the non-radiation curable additive is behenyl behenate or polycaprolactone-block-polytetrahydrofuran-block-polycaprolactone.
A process comprising:
- combining at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer;
- an optional dispersant;
- an optional photoinitiator;
- and at least one non-radiation curable additive wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a detergent or an emulsifying agent, or wherein the non-radiation curable additive functions as a detergent or emulsifying agent when in the presence of a cleaning fluid, wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a solid at a temperature of from about 20° C. to about 40° C., and wherein the non-radiation curable additive is behenyl behenate or polycaprolactone-block-polytetrahydrofuran-block-polycaprolactone;
- optionally, heating;
- and
- optionally, filtering;
- to provide an ink composition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.