Decor paper or foil
AssigneeUnilin BV
InventorBenjamin Clement
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Abstract
A decor paper or foil for application to panel shaped substrates may include a base layer, an inkjet receiving surface, and a digitally printed pattern. The digitally printed pattern may be obtained by printing with a single-pass printer. The digitally printed pattern may include a matrix of a plurality of printed ink dots per inch. The matrix, in the width direction of the paper or foil, may be uniformly made up with uniformly sized printed ink dots, with the exception of a minority of an area of the printed pattern, in which the matrix may be modified. The modification may include the presence of one or more printed dots in the matrix which have a smaller or a larger dot size.
Claims13
A decor paper or foil for application to panel shaped substrates, the decor paper or foil comprising:
- a base layer;
- an inkjet receiving surface formed by an inkjet receiver coating that includes CaCl2 as an ink destabilizing agent;
- and
- a digitally printed pattern obtained by printing with a single-pass printer and including a matrix of a plurality of printed ink dots per inch;
- wherein the matrix, in the width direction of the paper or foil, is uniformly made up with uniformly sized printed ink dots, with the exception of a minority of an area of the printed pattern wherein the matrix is modified;
- wherein the modification at least includes the presence of one or more printed dots in the matrix which have a smaller or a larger dot size;
- wherein the digitally printed pattern is formed using water-based pigmented inks having only the colors cyan, red, yellow, and black;
- and
- wherein the digitally printed pattern forms a representation of a wood grain.
A decor paper or foil for application to panel shaped substrates, the decor paper or foil comprising:
- a base layer;
- an inkjet receiving surface formed by an inkjet receiver coating that includes CaCl2 as an ink destabilizing agent;
- and
- a digitally printed pattern obtained by printing with a single-pass printer having at least one inkjet head;
- wherein the inkjet head includes a plurality of nozzles for firing ink droplets, each droplet forming an ink dot;
- wherein the digitally printed pattern includes a matrix of a plurality of printed ink dots per inch;
- wherein the matrix, in the width direction of the paper or foil, is uniformly made up with uniformly sized printed ink dots, with the exception of a minority of an area of the printed pattern wherein the matrix is modified;
- wherein the digitally printed pattern includes areas in which the matrix is corrected on a nozzle level;
- wherein the correction at least includes the modification of the dot size of one or more of the printed dots in the matrix;
- wherein the digitally printed pattern is formed using water-based pigmented inks having only the colors cyan, red, yellow, and black;
- and
- wherein the digitally printed pattern forms a representation of a wood grain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.