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AssigneeSeiren Co., Ltd.
InventorsSyungaku Nakamura, Ayumi Yamazaki
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Provision of an inkjet recording cloth that can be inkjet-printed using a pigment ink at a high shade depth and having excellent water and abrasion resistance without deterioration in its characteristic handling touch, a method of preparing such an inkjet recording cloth and a method of inkjet-printing the cloth. Application of an acidic solution containing a certain hydrophobic low molecular weight compound, whose melting or softening point is from 40° C. to 150° C., to a cloth forms an ink-accepting layer on the surface of the cloth before inkjet-printing it with pigment ink. Preferably, said ink-accepting layer contains a cationic resin which shows an electrical conductivity of 0.5 mS/cm to 10.0 mS/cm when dissolved in water at a concentration of 1%, and has a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 50,000.
An inkjet printing method comprising the steps of coating a cloth with an acid aqueous solution containing a hydrophobic low molecular weight compound whose melting or softening point is from 40-150°, drying the coated cloth to form an ink-accepting layer on its surface, printing on the ink-accepting layer with a pigment ink utilizing an inkjet recording system and thermally treating the inkjet printed cloth at a temperature not lower than the melting or softening point of the hydrophobic low molecular weight compound to form a film on the surface of the cloth.
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