Addition of alcohol to prewet solutions to enhance and accelerate
wetting to hydrophobic foams for application to ink-jet pens
    3.
    发明授权
    Addition of alcohol to prewet solutions to enhance and accelerate wetting to hydrophobic foams for application to ink-jet pens 失效
    加入醇以预湿溶液以增强和加速润湿疏水泡沫以适用于喷墨笔

    公开(公告)号:US5467117A

    公开(公告)日:1995-11-14

    申请号:US200794

    申请日:1994-02-23

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175 G01D15/18

    CPC分类号: B41J2/17553 B41J2/17513

    摘要: A method is provided for enhancing and accelerating wetting of hydrophobic foams for use as ink reservoirs in ink-jet printer pens. First, the foam is placed in a prewet bath, having already been compressed to expel air. The prewet bath contains an aqueous solution with a low molecular weight alcohol additive, such as n-propanol, ranging in concentration from about 3 to 10 wt. %. Second, the foam is repeatedly compressed and allowed to expand while in the prewet bath, thereby promoting the foam's absorbance of prewetting solution and further improving foam wettability. Finally, the foam is removed from the prewet bath and is compressed to expel excess prewetting solution. The foam retains residual alcohol from the prewet bath that subsequently becomes a constituent of the ink stored in the foam. In addition to improving the wetting process for hydrophobic foam, the alcohol additive prevents orifice plugging within ink-jet pens by becoming a residual constituent of the ink and wetting pen parts through ink usage.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于增强和加速用于喷墨打印机笔中的墨水储存器的疏水泡沫的润湿的方法。 首先,将泡沫放置在已经被压缩以排出空气的预湿浴中。 预湿浴包含含有浓度为约3至10重量%的低分子量醇添加剂如正丙醇的水溶液。 %。 第二,泡沫在预湿浴中反复压缩并允许膨胀,从而促进泡沫的预润湿溶液的吸光度并进一步提高泡沫润湿性。 最后,将泡沫从预湿浴中取出并被压缩以排出过量的预润湿溶液。 泡沫保留来自预湿浴的剩余的醇,其随后成为存储在泡沫中的油墨的成分。 除了改善疏水泡沫的润湿过程之外,醇添加剂通过成为油墨的残留成分并通过油墨使用润湿笔部件来防止喷墨笔中的孔堵塞。

    Polyamines complexed to anionic dyes, thereby forming water-soluble
cationic dyes
    4.
    发明授权
    Polyamines complexed to anionic dyes, thereby forming water-soluble cationic dyes 失效
    多胺与阴离子染料络合,从而形成水溶性阳离子染料

    公开(公告)号:US5788753A

    公开(公告)日:1998-08-04

    申请号:US738532

    申请日:1996-10-28

    IPC分类号: C09B69/04 C09D11/00 C09D11/02

    CPC分类号: C09D11/328 C09B69/04

    摘要: An ink-jet ink for ink-jet printers is provided, comprising: (a) an aqueous-based vehicle; and (b) an anionic dye complexed with a polyamine in an amount sufficient to form a pH-insensitive, water-soluble, dye:polyamine complex that acts like a cationic dye. Further, a method of converting the anionic dye to the cationic dye for formulating the ink-jet ink having a desired pH is provided. The method comprises adding a sufficient amount of the polyamine to form the dye:polyamine complex. The dye:polyamine complex is a complex of the dye and the polyamine polymer, which is cationic. Consequently, this complex behaves as a cationic dye. These ink-jet inks show remarkable waterfastness on a variety of common office papers and are pH-insensitive and even in some cases, completely pH-independent. These inks are thus stable over a wide pH range. In addition, the ink-jet inks exhibit superior ink-to-ink bleed when printed next to a drop of another color ink which contains an anionic polymer or carboxylated colorant and resist crusting or drying in ink-jet nozzles.

    摘要翻译: 提供一种用于喷墨打印机的喷墨油墨,包括:(a)水性载体; 和(b)与多胺络合的阴离子染料,其量足以形成像阳离子染料一样起作用的pH不敏感的水溶性染料:多胺络合物。 此外,提供了将阴离子染料转化为阳离子染料以配制具有所需pH的喷墨油墨的方法。 该方法包括加入足量的多胺以形成染料:多胺络合物。 染料:多胺络合物是染料和聚胺聚合物的复合物,其是阳离子的。 因此,这种复合物表现为阳离子染料。 这些喷墨墨水在各种常见的办公用纸上显示出显着的耐水性,并且pH不敏感,甚至在某些情况下,完全不依赖于pH。 因此,这些油墨在宽的pH范围内是稳定的。 此外,喷墨墨水在印刷在一滴含有阴离子聚合物或羧化着色剂的另一种彩色墨水上并且在喷墨喷嘴中抵抗结皮或干燥时表现出优异的墨到墨渗色。

    Use of tetrafluoropropanol as co-solvent in ink-jet ink vehicles
    7.
    发明授权
    Use of tetrafluoropropanol as co-solvent in ink-jet ink vehicles 失效
    在喷墨油墨载体中使用四氟丙醇作为助溶剂

    公开(公告)号:US5690722A

    公开(公告)日:1997-11-25

    申请号:US738531

    申请日:1996-10-28

    IPC分类号: C09D11/00 C09D11/02

    CPC分类号: C09D11/30

    摘要: An ink-jet ink composition and a method for printing are provided which involve the use of tetrafluoropropanol (TFP), and preferably 2,2,3,3-TFP, as a co-solvent to impart improved bleed control, dot gain, and edge acuity characteristics to the ink as well as to reduce the dry time upon printing onto a print medium. Preferably, the ink-jet ink composition comprises a dye, 2,2,3,3-TFP, 2-ethyl-2-hydroxymethyl-1,3-propanediol, sodium alginate, and water. In an ink-jet ink set in which the color inks are dye-based ink-jet inks compositions formulated to include 2,2,3,3-TFP in accordance with the invention, but when the black ink is a pigment-based suspension without 2,2,3,3-TFP, black to color bleed may be controlled by further adding any one of calcium nitrate, magnesium nitrate, tetraethylenepentamine, or polyethylenimine to the color dye-based inks.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种喷墨油墨组合物和印刷方法,其涉及使用四氟丙醇(TFP),优选使用2,2,3,3-三氟丙烯酸酯作为助溶剂,以提供改进的渗色控制,点增益和 边缘锐度特性,以及减少打印到打印介质上的干燥时间。 优选地,喷墨油墨组合物包含染料,2,2,3,3-三氟乙烯,2-乙基-2-羟甲基-1,3-丙二醇,藻酸钠和水。 在其中彩色油墨是配制成包括根据本发明的2,2,3,3-TFP的染料基喷墨油墨组合物的喷墨油墨组中,但是当黑色油墨是颜料基悬浮液 没有2,2,3,3-TFP,可以通过将彩色染料基油墨中的硝酸钙,硝酸镁,四亚乙基五胺或聚乙烯亚胺进一步加入来控制黑色至彩色渗色。

    Reactive ink-jet printing
    8.
    发明授权
    Reactive ink-jet printing 失效
    反应性喷墨打印

    公开(公告)号:US4694302A

    公开(公告)日:1987-09-15

    申请号:US871346

    申请日:1986-06-06

    摘要: A method of increasing the water fastness and print quality of an ink employed in ink-jet printers is provided. The method involves providing a reactive species that reacts with a component in the substrate (i.e., paper) to form a polymer that binds the dye in the ink to the polymeric lattice. Alternatively, a separate reactive component may be deposited on the substrate on the same location as the reactive species which causes a polymeric reaction to occur. In this case, the ink may be in one or the other or both reactive components. An ink-jet printer having indexed orifices permits registration of deposited droplets of ink and reactive species to form the desired product.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种增加喷墨打印机中使用的油墨的耐水性和打印质量的方法。 该方法包括提供与基材(即纸)中的组分反应以形成将油墨中的染料与聚合物晶格结合的聚合物的反应性物质。 或者,单独的反应性组分可以沉积在与引起聚合反应发生的反应性物质相同的位置上的衬底上。 在这种情况下,油墨可以在一个或另一个或两个反应性组分中。 具有索引孔的喷墨打印机允许记录油墨和反应物种的沉积液滴以形成所需产品。

    Thermal ink-jet inks having reduced black to color and color to color
bleed
    9.
    发明授权
    Thermal ink-jet inks having reduced black to color and color to color bleed 失效
    热喷墨油墨具有减少的黑色到颜色和颜色到颜色的流失

    公开(公告)号:US5536306A

    公开(公告)日:1996-07-16

    申请号:US501262

    申请日:1995-07-11

    IPC分类号: C09D11/00 C09D11/02

    CPC分类号: C09D11/38 C09D11/40

    摘要: A set of thermal ink-jet inks and method for formulating the same are provided in which the cyan, magenta, and yellow inks contain a combination of surfactants and inorganic salts designed to reduce both color to color bleed as well as black to color bleed. In general, the present cyan, magenta, and yellow inks each comprise about 0.1 to 4 wt. % of at least one dye; about 3 to 20 wt. % of at least one diol; 0 to about 5 wt. % of at least one glycol ether; about 3 to 9 wt. % of 2-pyrrolidone; up to about 4 wt. % of at least one component selected from the group consisting of biocides and buffers; and water. To achieve a reduction in color to color and black to color bleed, the cyan, magenta, and yellow inks are formulated to further comprise the following combination of surfactants and inorganic salts: (a) a surfactant component comprising about 1 to 4 wt. % of a first surfactant consisting essentially of at least one secondary alcohol ethoxylate surfactant predominantly having 4 to 8 ethoxylated units and an aliphatic chain having about 12 to 18 carbon atoms; and (b) about 3 to 6 wt. % of at least one inorganic salt component.

    摘要翻译: 提供一组热喷墨油墨及其配制方法,其中青色,洋红色和黄色油墨含有表面活性剂和无机盐的组合,其设计用于减少颜色到颜色渗色以及黑色到颜色渗色。 通常,本发明的青色,品红色和黄色油墨各自包含约0.1至4wt。 至少一种染料的%; 约3至20wt。 %的至少一种二醇; 0至约5wt。 %至少一种二醇醚; 约3〜9重量% %的2-吡咯烷酮; 高达约4wt。 %的至少一种选自杀生物剂和缓冲剂的组分; 和水。 为了实现颜色降低到颜色和黑色到颜色渗色,配制青色,品红色和黄色油墨以进一步包含以下表面活性剂和无机盐的组合:(a)包含约1至4wt。 基本上由至少一种仲醇乙氧基化物表面活性剂主要具有4至8个乙氧基化单元和具有约12至18个碳原子的脂族链组成的第一表面活性剂的% 和(b)约3至6wt。 %的至少一种无机盐组分。

    Polymeric reactive dyes and inks formulated by insolubilizing reactions
initiated by loss of water
    10.
    发明授权
    Polymeric reactive dyes and inks formulated by insolubilizing reactions initiated by loss of water 失效
    由失水引起的不合理反应制成的聚合物反应性染料和墨水

    公开(公告)号:US5230733A

    公开(公告)日:1993-07-27

    申请号:US786627

    申请日:1991-11-01

    CPC分类号: C09D11/328 C09B69/10

    摘要: A water-soluble ink-jet dye for use in ink-jet printing is designed to undergo a reaction, initiated by the loss of water and natural neutralization, as the ink dries on paper, causing the dye to (1) change and lose solubility and (2) bind to the paper. The dye comprises a polymeric chain, to which one or more chromophores are attached. Also attached to the chain are a plurality of hydroxyl or amine groups, up to approximately one-half of which are converted to carboxyl groups. The ink containing the dye is maintained at a basic pH. Upon printing on a print substrate, the dye is neutralized, causing lactone (from hydroxyl groups) or lactam (from amine groups) ring formation. The resulting reacted dye is substantially totally waterfast on the print substrate.