Decorated leather manufacturing

A method for manufacturing a decorated natural leather comprising the steps of:

• jetting one or more radiation curable inkjet inks on a leather surface to form a decorative image;
• and
• curing the one or more radiation curable inkjet inks;
• wherein
• the one or more radiation curable inkjet inks comprise a colorant and a polymerizable composition comprising no polyfunctional polymerizable compounds or up to about 15.0 wt % of one or more polyfunctional polymerizable compounds and at least about 85.0 wt % of one or more monofunctional polymerizable compounds based on a total weight of the polymerizable composition;
• the one or more radiation curable inkjet inks comprise no organic solvent or up to about 35.0 wt % of organic solvent based on a weight of the radiation curable inkjet ink;
• one of the one or more radiation curable inkjet inks comprises at least about 17.5 wt % of a white pigment based on a weight of the radiation curable inkjet ink comprising the white pigment;
• and
• the glass transition temperature of the one or more radiation curable inkjet inks as calculated by Formula (I) is less than 25° C.,
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• Formula
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• wherein
• i and n are integers;
• n is a total number of the monofunctional polymerizable and the polyfunctional polymerizable compounds in the radiation curable inkjet ink;
• TgPC(i) is a glass transition temperature in degrees Celsius of a polymerizable compound PC(i);
• and
• Wt % PC(i) is a weight percentage of the polymerizable compound PC(i) based on the weight of the radiation curable inkjet ink.