Abstract:
A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes a binder including an hydroxyalkanoic acid polyester and one or more co-binder, wherein the co-binder is not polyester.
Abstract:
An ink jet printing method, comprising the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading the printer with an ink jet recording element comprising a support having thereon in order: a) a hydrophilic, fluid-absorbing layer, and b) an image-receptive layer capable of retaining an ink jet image, the image-receiving layer comprising an open-pore membrane of a mixture of a water-insoluble polymer and a water-absorbent polymer, the mixture containing at least about 25% by weight of the water-absorbent polymer; C) loading the printer with an ink jet ink composition; and D) printing on the ink jet recording element using the ink jet ink in response to the digital data signals.
Abstract:
An imaging support element comprising a polymeric film support and a thermally stable single subbing layer is made by forming a coating over the polymeric film support, the coating having a surface including amine reactive groups in a density of at least 1010 per cm2 and then heat treating the polymeric film support with the coating thereon at a temperature in the range of from about 50° C. below the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric support up to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric support. The polymeric film support is nitrogen plasma treated. The layer is formed by applying to the polymeric support web a coating including at least one non-amine reactive comonomer and at least one comonomer having amine reactive side groups.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a blend of certain polyesters and polymers that are miscible with polystyrene, such as polyphenylene oxide. The blend is characterized by the presence of a compatibilizing amount of a copolymer having repeating units derived from an aromatic vinyl compound monomer and a vinylphenol monomer. The polyester is thermoplastic and is characterized in that the diacid component of the polyester includes aromatic groups and the diol component comprises at least about 20 percent by weight of a noncyclic, aliphatic diol.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an optical multilayer comprising a polymeric substrate having a non-zero out-of plane birefringence and an amorphous polymeric overlayer that comprises an amorphous polymer having a Tg value above 160° C. and having the sign of its out-of-plane birefringence opposite to that of the polymeric substrate so as to provide a total out-of-plane phase retardation of said optical multilayer of between −30 nm and 30 nm for wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nm.
Abstract:
A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes a polyvinylacetal copolymer as a binder.
Abstract:
Aqueous-based thermally sensitive emulsions and imaging materials include a mixture of binders in at least one imaging layer. These binder mixtures include from 70 to about 99 weight % of hydrophilic binders such as gelatin and gelatin derivatives, and the remainder of the total binder weight is composed of one or more hydrophobic binders or water-dispersible polymer latexes. These binder mixtures are particularly useful in imaging layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials and provide long term keeping and reduced crystallization of fatty acids.
Abstract:
An ink jet printing method, comprising the steps of: A) providing an inkjet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading the printer with ink-receptive elements comprising a support having thereon an image-receiving layer comprising a cationic, water-dispersible, quaternized imidazole-containing polymer; C) loading the printer with an inkjet ink composition comprising water, a humectant, and a water soluble anionic dye; and D) printing on said image-receiving layer using said ink jet ink in response to said digital data signals.
Abstract:
An ink jet printing method, comprising the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading the printer with an ink jet recording element comprising a support having thereon an image-receptive layer capable of accepting an ink jet image, the layer comprising an open-pore membrane of a mixture of a water-insoluble polymer, a water-absorbent polymer and a mordant, the mixture containing at least about 25% by weight of the water-absorbent polymer, at least about 7% by weight of the mordant, and the balance being the water-insoluble polymer, the mordant comprising a polymer or copolymer containing a quatemized nitrogen moiety; C) loading the printer with an ink jet ink composition; and D) printing on the ink jet recording element using the ink jet ink in response to the digital data signals.
Abstract:
The present invention is recyclable photographic film base which includes a cellulose acetate support. An antistatic layer is superposed on one side of the support and includes an antistatic agent. A barrier layer comprising a polymeric composition having a glass transition temperature of less than 90.degree. C. overlies the antistatic layer. In a preferred embodiment the polymeric composition of the barrier layer in poly(isobutyl methacrylate).