Etch-resistant inkjet inks for manufacturing printed circuit boards
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsJohan Loccufier, Rita Torfs
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Abstract
A radiation curable inkjet ink including an adhesion promoter including (1) at least one a free radical polymerizable group selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, an acryl amide and a methacryl amide; (2) at least one aliphatic tertiary amine; and (3) at least one carboxylic acid or salt thereof with the proviso that the carboxylic acid is linked to an aliphatic tertiary amine via a divalent linking group selected from the group consisting of an optionally substituted methylene group and an optionally substituted ethylene group.
Claims14
A method of inkjet printing comprising the steps of:
- forming a protected area on a metal or glass surface by printing and curing on the metal or glass surface a radiation curable inkjet ink comprising:
- an adhesion promoter including:
- at least one free radical polymerizable group selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, an acryl amide, and a methacryl amide;
- at least one aliphatic tertiary amine;
- and
- at least one carboxylic acid or salt thereof, wherein
- the carboxylic acid is linked to the at least one aliphatic tertiary amine via a divalent linking group selected from the group consisting of an optionally substituted methylene group and an optionally substituted ethylene group;
- removing metal or glass from an unprotected area of the metal or glass surface by etching;
- and
- at least partially removing the printed and cured radiation curable inkjet ink from the protected area of the metal or glass surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.