Abstract:
A POROUS, INK CONTAINING TRANSFER MEDIUM IS PREPARED BY COATING THE SURFACE OF A POLYMER FILM, SUCH AS A POLYAMIDE, WITH A PORE FORMING AGENT, SUCH AS AMMONIUM BICARBONATE, CONTAINED IN A SOLVENT SUCH AS ETHANOL, WHICH IS AT LEAST A PARTIAL SOLVENT FOR THE POLYMER FILM, TO IMPREGNATE A PORTION OF THE PORE FORMING AGENT INTO THE SURFACE OF THE POLYMER FILM. THE SOLVENT IS REMOVED AND THE FILM IS HEATED TO CAUSE THE PORE FORMING AGENT TO VAPORIZE AND FORM AN OPEN PORED CAPILLARY STRUCTURE IN THE SURFACE OF THE FILM. THE MARKING MATERIAL CAN BE INCORPORATED EITHER WITH THE PORE FORMING EITHER WITH THE PORE FORMING AGENT OR AFTER THE OPEN PORED CAPILLARY STRUCTUE HAS BEEN FORMED.
Abstract:
HIGH IMPACT RIBBONS COMPRISE A TRANSFER LAYER OF A POROUS RESIN MATRIX CONTAINING EXPRESSIBLE INK AND A SECOND POLYMER FILM BACKING LAYER COEXTENSIVE WITH AND BONDED TO THE BACK SURFACE OF THE TRANSFER LAYER BY A THIN INTERMEDIATE LAYER OF ELASTOMERIC ADHESIVE POLYMER.
Abstract:
A TRANSFER MEDIUM SUITABLE FOR USE, FOR EXAMPLE, AS A TYPERWRITER RIBBON IS FORMED BY COATING A MIXTURE OF INK AND RESIN CONTAINED IN A VOLATILE ORGANIC SOLVENT ON A POLYMER FILM AND HEATING TO REMOVE THE SOLVENT. THE INK, COMPRISING COLORING MATERIAL DISPERSED IN A VEHICLE, THE RESIN AND THE SOLVENT ARE SELECTED SUCH THAT THE INK IS PREFERENTIALLY SOLUBILIZED IN THE SOLVENT. DURING THE EVAPORATION OF THE SOLVENT, THIS RESULTS IN THE INK BECOMING CONCENTRATED AT THE EVAPORAING SURFACE TO PRODUCE A TRANSFER MEDIUM HAVING AN EXPOSED, INK RICH SURFACE.
Abstract:
Ink receptive convertible films suitable for use in copying systems or projection slides are prepared by coating the surface of a transparent film with a fusible polymer material such as polyvinyl acetate with a pore forming agent such as ammonium carbonate. The polymer containing the pore forming agent to volatilize and render the film porous, and ink receptive. The film is then readily printed with a conventional ink after which the nonprinted portion of the opaque coating is rendered transparent through the application of heat and/or pressure, or the action of solvent vapors. The printed matter substantially retains the print quality it possessed during the ink receptive opaque stage.
Abstract:
A MULTICOLOR TRANSFER MEDIUM IS PROVIDED BY A PROCESS WHICH COMPRISES MAKING A FIRST MATRIX MATERIAL BY MIXING A FLUID TRANSFER INK OF A FIRST COLOR WITH A SOLUTION OF A FILM FORMING POLYMER IN A SOLVENT FOR THE POLYMER, COATING THE RESULTING DISPERSION ON A FIRST SUBSTRATE AND EVAPORATING THE SOLVENT TO FORM THE MATRIX MATERIAL OF A FIRST COLOR. A MATRIX MATERIAL OF A SECOND COLOR IS FORMED IN AN IDENTICAL MANNER UTILIZING A FLUID TRANSFER INK OF A SECOND COLOR. THE TWO SUBSTRATES SUPPORTING THE MATRIX MATERIALS ARE
THEN PLACED IN ADJACENT EDGE ALIGNED RELATIONSHIP TO ONE ANOTHER ON A THIRD SUBSTRATE WHICH HAS BEEN COATED WITH A FUGITIVE ADHESIVE AND A POLYMER IS THEREAFTER BACK COATED OVER THE TWO MATRIX MATERIALS TO SEAL THEM TOGETHER. THE RESULTING UNITARY MULTICOLORED TRANSFER MEDIUM IS THEN STRIPPED FROM THE SUBSTRATES AND SLIT, IF REQUIRED, TO A DESIRED WIDTH.