Radiation-curable ink compositions and methods of printing including the compositions are disclosed. In some embodiments, a radiation-curable hot melt ink composition includes a colorant, a polymerizable monomer, and a photoinitiating system. The photoinitiating system can include 0. 5-1. 5% by weight of an aromatic ketone photoinitiator, 2-10% by weight of an amine synergist, 3-8% by weight of an alpha-cleavage type photoinitiator, and 0. 5-1. 5% by weight of a photosensitizer.
A printing method includes printing an ultraviolet light curable jettable ink including a colorant, a photoinitiating system, and cationic reagent onto a substrate provide a marking, and exposing the marking to ultraviolet radiation after at least two second. The ultraviolet light curable inkjet ink having Brookfield viscosity of between about 1 and 50 centipoise at printing temperature, and between about 170 and 500 centipoise at a shear rate of 20 Sand at a temperature of about 20 C.
Richard Larson - Walpole NH, US Michael Secord - Winchester NH, US Richard Woudenberg - Keene NH, US
International Classification:
B32B009/04 C08G077/00
US Classification:
428/447000, 528/010000
Abstract:
A marking composition includes a polymerizable first material that comprises silicon and a second material capable of extending polymeric chains of the first material, wherein the marking composition is capable of undergoing a change that can be detected optically when the composition is contacted with energy.
Richard Larson - Walpole NH, US Michael Secord - Winchester NH, US Richard Woudenberg - Keene NH, US
International Classification:
C08F002/46
US Classification:
427/487000
Abstract:
A marking composition includes a polymerizable first material that comprises silicon and a second material capable of extending polymeric chains of the first material, wherein the marking composition is capable of undergoing a change that can be detected optically when the composition is contacted with energy.
Benjamin J. Brown - Keene NH, US Richard C. Woudenberg - Keene NH, US Ann Benjamin - Keene NH, US Corey Williams - Keene NH, US
Assignee:
Markem-Imaje Corporation - Keene NH
International Classification:
B41J 2/015 C08L 33/08 C08L 61/00 C08L 71/10
US Classification:
347 20, 524556, 524592, 524611
Abstract:
Solvent-based inkjet ink formulations including an organic solvent, a resin, a surfactant, and a colorant are provided. The inks have many desirable attributes such as extended decap time.
Hybrid Additive Manufacturing With Dual Phase-Change Materials
A method includes manufacturing a kernel that comprises a quantity of a phase-change material and heating the thermoplastic past a softening temperature thereof. This softening temperature is greater than the phase-change material's melting temperature. The method continues with pressing this heated thermoplastic onto a contact surface of the kernel and the thermoplastic to cool to below its softening temperature. As a result, the thermoplastic assumes a profile that depends, at least in part, on the contact surface's profile. The method continues with separating the kernel from the thermoplastic.
- Keene NH, US Richard C. Woudenberg - Keene NH, US Ann Benjamin - Spofford NH, US Corey Williams - Keene NH, US
International Classification:
C09D 11/36 C09D 11/107 C09D 11/103
Abstract:
Solvent-based inkjet ink formulations including an organic solvent, a resin, a surfactant, and a colorant are provided. The inks have many desirable attributes such as extended decap time.
- Keene NH, US Michael P. Secord - West Chesterfield NH, US Richard C. Woudenberg - Keene NH, US
International Classification:
C09D 11/12 C09D 11/34
Abstract:
This disclosure includes a hot melt ink composition that includes at least one wax having a freezing point of from about 20 C. to about 45 C. and a melting point of at least about 35 C., and at least one colorant. The composition includes at least about 50 wt % of the at least one wax. This disclosure also relates to a printing process using such a composition and a product containing such a composition.