The Lubrizol Corporation

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc.

Joshua M Rosenheck

John H Larsen

John J Mullay

Robert Edwin Quinn

Harshida C Dave

Robert A Pollack

George A Malchow, Jr

The specification describes a process for making gelled ink resins which exhibit improved properties such as lower viscosity under low shear and less viscosity decrease with increasing shear. In a preferred embodiment, a rosin-based or hydrocarbon-based resin is mixed with an organic solvent and reacted with a polyamine reactant, such as melamine-formaldehyde resin or hexamethylene diamine, under conditions sufficient to produce a substantially covalently cross-link gelled resin. The resulting gelled resin resists viscosity breakdown under high shear conditions and may be used directly for making ink compositions, obviating the need for further gelation and avoiding the use of conventional organo-metallic gelling agents.

Shear resistant printing ink vehicles

An emulsion composition comprises water, a hydrocarbon distillate having a boiling point of 215 to 325&#xb0; C., and a surfactant having a hydrophilic lipophilic balance number of 10 or less. A vehicle composition, an ink composition, a lithographic printing process and a method to improve a lithographic printing process comprise the emulsion composition which when used in a lithographic printing ink can reduce emission of volatile organic compounds and reduce the time at start-up to establish print quality.

Emulsion composition and vehicle and ink compositions and printing process and method thereof

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Joshua M Rosenheck