Abstract:
An inkjet printing method includes, in order, the steps of a) jetting a radiation curable inkjet ink on the outside surface of a packaging including a substance for human or animal consumption or administration; b) curing the radiation curable inkjet ink on the outer surface of the packaging; and c) treating the radiation curable inkjet ink and the packaging including the substance with a heat treatment to kill micro-organisms present on the inside surface of a packaging; wherein the radiation curable inkjet ink includes at least 5 wt % of a (meth)acrylated silicone surfactant based on the total weight of the radiation curable inkjet ink.
Abstract:
A method for inkjet varnishing a substrate includes the steps of jetting a micro-pattern of a varnish having a viscosity of less than 30 mPa·s at 45° C. and at a shear rate of 30 s−1 to a portion of the substrate by one or more printheads having nozzles with a nozzle diameter of no more than 30 μm, and at least partially curing the micro-pattern within 500 milliseconds after jetting to provide a micro-roughness to the portion of the substrate.
Abstract:
An inkjet printing method includes, in order, the steps of a) providing to an inkjet printer at least two or more colorless liquids having a different composition and at least one color inkjet ink; b) mixing the color inkjet ink in a controlled amount with the two or more colorless liquids; and c) printing the ink-mixture of the color inkjet ink and the two or more colorless liquids with the inkjet printer onto an ink-receiver.
Abstract:
A method for preparing a surface modified organic pigment includes the steps of a) reacting the organic pigment in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent with a surface modifying reagent to form a surface modified organic pigment; and b) washing and drying the surface modified organic pigment; wherein the surface modifying reagent is represented by Formula (I): wherein, X is selected from the group consisting of O, S and N—R3; Y is selected from the group consisting of —O and NR4; R1 to R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a -aralkyl group, an alkaryl group, and an aryl group and s heteroaryl group; with the proviso that when Y—R1 is different from OH that at least one of R2 to R4 is substituted by at least one functional group having a pKa between 2.5 and 9.
Abstract:
A free radical curable liquid for inkjet printing of food packaging materials includes no initiator or otherwise one or more initiators selected from the group consisting of non-polymeric di- or multifunctional initiators, oligomeric initiators, polymeric initiators, and polymerizable initiators; and a polymerizable composition of the liquid consists essentially of: a) 25-100 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds A having at least one acrylate group G1 and at least one second ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable functional group G2 selected from the group consisting of a vinlyether group, an allylether group, and a allylester group; b) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds B selected from the group consisting of monofunctional acrylates and difunctional acrylates; and c) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds C selected from the group consisting of trifunctional acrylates, tetrafunctional acrylates, pentafunctional acrylates and hexafunctional acrylates.
Abstract:
A radiation curable inkjet printing method for producing printed flexible foils and plastic bags wherein a web-like polymeric substrate having a maximum value for Tan δ between 40° C. and 110° C. and a surface energy Ssub is printed upon using a single pass inkjet printer with a non-aqueous radiation curable inkjet liquid having a surface tension SLiq, wherein SLiq is smaller than Ssub by at least 4 mN/m, and curing the radiation curable liquid on the substrate at a surface temperature equal or higher than the temperature of the maximum value for Tan δ and smaller than the melting point of the polymeric recording medium. A single pass inkjet printer is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing an embossing element for decorative surfaces includes the steps of: a) UV curable inkjet printing a decorative pattern on a metallic surface; and b) forming a relief by etching metal from the metallic surface.
Abstract:
A free radical radiation curable liquid includes a) a photoinitiator; and b) a monomer or oligomer including an alkali hydrolyzable group. The alkali hydrolyzable group is an oxalate group located in the atomic chain between two free radical polymerizable groups of the monomer or oligomer including the alkali hydrolyzable group.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a security document including a security pattern generation method includes the steps of selecting a bounding region, an image object, and a raster image or a function; cutting the image object into image object partitions; and repeating the image object as a pattern, preferably a lattice pattern, in the bounding region wherein each of the image object partitions of an image object is transformed depending on the position area of the image object in the lattice pattern and the rank of the image object partition.
Abstract:
A method of inkjet printing a color image including a metallic or pearlescent color includes the steps of applying on part of an ink receiver a layer containing a pearlescent or metallic pigment having a volume mean particle size of at least 3.0 μm as measured by laser diffraction; and inkjet printing on part of the layer containing the pearlescent or metallic pigment a layer with a white inkjet ink containing a white pigment having an average particle size between 250 and 400 nm as measured by differential centrifugal sedimentation.