International Imaging Materials, Inc.

Jim Ibarra

Joel D Neri

Pamela Geddes

Daniel Jude Harrison

Barry L Marginean

Barry Briggs

Claire A Jalbert

Karen A Walsh-Clemens

Mike Tato

Robert P Wilbert

Michael J Draper

Rick Wallace

Disclosed in this specification is a decal assembly comprising a decal support, a releasable covercoat, a heat activatable layer, and an ink layer. The ink layer forms a digital image. The heat activatable layer has a high adhesion to a ceramic substrate at high temperatures and a low adhesion to the substrate at lower temperatures. Thus the adhesive properties of the decal are activated by heat. The resulting image has excellent adhesion to the substrate and resists the effects of washing.

Digital decoration and marking of glass and ceramic substrates

A thermal transfer assembly that comprises a thermal transfer ribbon and a covercoated transfer sheet. The thermal transfer ribbon includes a support and a ceramic ink layer. The ceramic ink layer is present at a coating weight of from about 2 to about 15 grams per square meter, and it includes from about 15 to about 94.5 percent of a solid carbonaceous binder, and at least one of a film-forming glass frit, an opacifying agent and a colorant (at a combined level for the film forming glass frit, the opacifying agent and the colorant of at least 0.5 weight percent).

Thermal transfer assembly for ceramic imaging

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Williamsville, NY, United States of America

Jim Ibarra