Embossed receptor media
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsCaroline M. Ylitalo, Lori P. Engle, Verna J. LeMire, Patrick R. Fleming
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Abstract
A receptor medium with a sheet having an embossed imaging surface as one major surface thereof The receptor medium can receive jettable materials, which include inks, adhesives, biological fluids, chemical assay reagents, particulate dispersions, waxes, and combinations thereof. The embossed medium unexpectedly solves such common inkjet printing problems as feathering, banding, and mudcracking in inkjet printing systems by controlling how an inkjet drop contacts and dries on an inkjet receptor medium. Clear lines of demarcation between adjoining colors of a pigmented inkjet image graphic can be obtained, Methods of making and using the inkjet receptor medium are also disclosed.
Claims16
A method of producing an image, comprising the step of printing a jettable ink through an inkjet printing head onto a receptor medium comprising a sheet having an engineered embossed surface as one major surface thereof, the engineered embossed surface comprising a plurality of elements in a repeating pattern wherein the sheet is nonporous and wherein each element of the engineered embossed surface has a capacity of from about 20 pL to about 1,000 pL.
A method of producing an image. comprising the step of printing a jettable material through an inkjet printing head onto a receptor medium comprising a sheet having an engineered embossed surface as one major surface thereof, the engineered embossed surface comprising a plurality of elements in a repeating pattern wherein the sheet is nonporous, wherein the jettable material selected from the group consisting of biological fluids, pharmaceuticals, chemical assay reagents, and combinations thereof, and wherein each element of the engineered embossed surface has a capacity of from about 20 pL to about 1,000 pL.
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