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US 6,958,177 B2Granted
Recyclable image-recording medium
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshimitsu Fujiwara, Chiaki Yamaoka
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Abstract
The present invention is to provide a recyclable mage-recording member from which a printed material such as toner can be removed, characterized in that the printed material can be removed selectively.
Claims11
A recyclable image-recording medium comprising:
- a base layer;
- a surface layer comprising a water-swelling resin, the surface layer allowing printed materials formed thereon to be separated upon application of an aqueous solvent, in which the surface of the image-recording medium has a portion that is not covered with the surface layer, wherein
- the water swelling resin comprises a water-soluble resin which has been cross-linked to the extent that the layer swells when contacted with an aqueous solvent, thereby loosening the bond between an image present on the surface layer and said layer and allowing the image to be removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.