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Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsLori P. Engle, Robert T. Fehr, Patrick R. Fleming, Paul D. Graham, Douglas A. Huntley, Verna J. LeMire, Jeffrey L. Solomon, Todd R. Williams, Caroline M. Ylitalo
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A receptor medium with a sheet having a random microembossed 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, electrically, thermally, or magnetically modifiable materials, and combinations thereof. The random microembossed 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 and also Moire' effects. Clear lines of demarcation between adjoining colors of a pigmented inkjet image graphic can be obtained without creation of the Moire' effects. Methods of making and using the inkjet receptor medium are also disclosed.
An inkjet printing medium comprising a polymeric sheet having a random, microembossed surface topography comprising cavities on one major surface thereof wherein the cavities are hemispherical, conical, truncated pyramidal, cube-corner shaped, or combinations thereof, wherein each cavity has a capacity of at least 10 pL and an aspect ratio of from 0.05 to 2, wherein the sheet is nonporous, and wherein a jettable material is deposited on the microembossed surface.
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