Printing medium, production process thereof, textile printing process using the medium and ink-jet printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiromitsu Hirabayashi, Masahiro Haruta, Shoji Koike, Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Yuji Akiyama, Hitoshi Sugimoto, Miyuki Matsubara, Takashi Saito
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a printing medium comprising a cloth and having a Clark stiffness not lower than 10, but not higher than 400 at least at its ends.
Claims9
A printing medium for an ink jet printer having an ink ejection orifice and supporting means provided facing the orifice for supporting a printing medium, said printing medium having a Clark stiffness not lower than 10, but not higher than 400 at least at its ends and comprising a cloth and a stiffening agent having a non-dyeing property imparted to the cloth and being subjected to a smoothing treatment at its surface so that a degree of the irregularity of the surface is smaller than a half of the distance between the ink-ejection orifice and the surface of the supporting means of the ink-jet printer.
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