Photosensitive semi-aqueous developable ceramic coating composition

In a photosensitive ceramic coating composition which is fireable in a substantially nonoxidizing atmosphere comprising an admixture of:

• (a) finely divided particles of ceramic solids having a surface area-to-weight ratio of no more than 10 m.sup.2 /g and at least 80 wt. % of the particles having a size of 1-10 .mu.m, and
• (b) finely divided particles of an inorganic binder having a glass transition temperature in the range from of 550.degree. to 825.degree. C., a surface area-to-weight ratio of no more than 10 m.sup.2 /g and at least 90 wt. % of the particles having a size of 1-10 .mu.m, the weight ratio of (b) to (a) being in a range from 0.6 to 2, dispersed in an organic medium comprising
• (c) an organic polymeric binder, and
• (d) a photoinitiation system, dissolved in
• (e) photohardenable monomer, and
• (f) an organic medium
• wherein the improvement comprises an organic polymeric binder containing a copolymer or interpolymer of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl acrylate, or C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl methacrylate, and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, wherein a moiety in the binder derived from the unsaturated carboxylic acid comprises from 5 to less than 15 weight percent of the polymer and wherein the binder has a molecular weight not greater than 100,000 and wherein the composition upon imagewise exposure to actinic radiation is developable in an aqueous solution containing by weight 0.62 percent sodium borate and 8.7 percent butyl cellosolve.