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US 6,846,076 B2Granted
Methods employed in solvent-based ink jet printing
AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorShulong Li
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InventorShulong Li
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A porous substrate for organic solvent-based ink printing may be coated with a repellant composition to form a coated substrate surface that is suitable for high quality solvent-based ink jet printing. The coated substrate surface may exhibit a repellancy for butoxyethyl acetate solvent at a contact angle of between about 40 and about 90 degrees at ambient temperature. In some applications, the repellant composition includes a fluorocarbon polymer, or a urethane. Solvent-based ink applied to the porous substrate will form droplets which under the application of heat deposit ink in a controlled and advantageous manner upon the treated substrate surface. An optional acrylate-based latex material may be employed in the repellant composition. A printed substrate is produced which exhibits clear, sharp and high quality print.
An ink jet printing method comprising the steps of:
A method for preparing a substrate to receive an organic solvent-based ink, said method comprising the steps of:
A textile printing process comprising the steps of:
A method of forming a printing substrate comprising the steps of:
A method of forming an image upon a solvent-based ink jet printed article, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.