Hewlett-packard Industrial Printing Ltd.

Lior Lifshitz

Alex Veis

Eytan Cohen

Yoav Bressler

Alex Trubnikov

Gilhad Ben-Bassat

Danny Seidner

Alon Sarig

An inkjet printing method includes providing an inkjet composition, which includes a radiation curable monomer or oligomer, a photo-initiator, and an inhibitor present in an amount sufficient to prevent full curing of the radiation curable monomer or oligomer during an initial exposure to a curing energy. First drops of the inkjet composition are deposited onto a substrate. The curing energy is selected such that it is sufficient to substantially consume the inhibitor. The first drops are exposed to the curing energy, whereby the first drops retain substantially a same surface tension as a liquid drop of the inkjet composition. Second drops of the inkjet composition are deposited adjacent to the first drops. The first and second drops are exposed to the curing energy, whereby the first drops are at least partially cured and the second drops retain substantially the same surface tension as a liquid drop of the inkjet composition.

Inkjet printing method

An image forming apparatus and printing methods include a media support member to support media and an ink applicator unit to selectively apply ink to the media disposed on the media support member in a print mode. The image forming apparatus and printing methods also include a heating unit to preheat at least one of the media support member and the media to a predetermined temperature in a preheat mode prior to the selective application of the ink to the media.

Preheat at least one of media and media support member to predetermined temperature in preheat mode

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Lior Lifshitz