Hewlett-packard Indigo B.v.

Indigo N.v.

Peretz Ben Avraham

Benzion Landa

Ishaiau Lior

Itzhak Ashkenazi

Becky Bossidon

Yaacov Almog

Amiran Lavon

A printing foil for foil printing a region of an image comprising:

Foil printing

A method for producing a printed image having a region that is foil printed comprising: printing at least one region of the image with a toner; printing the region of the image to be foil printed with a foiling adhesive that sticks to a foil on a printing foil, which adhesive has a melting temperature lower than the melting temperature of the toner, and pressing the printing foil to the image and heating the printing foil to a temperature greater than the melting temperature of the foiling adhesive and less than the melting temperature of the toner.

The invention relates to a liquid toner and imaging apparatus provided with an imaging surface having a liquid toner image formed thereon on fibrous toner particles and carrier liquid. The fibrous toner particles can be composed of a polymer portion and pigment dispersed therein, where the polymer portion comprises a surface of the fibrous toner particles and is insoluble in the carrier liquid at temperatures below 40&deg; C., so that the polymer portion will not dissolve or solvate in storage. The polymer portion also is solvatable by the carrier liquid only at temperatures above 50&deg; C. The carrier liquid has, as a major component, first liquid hydrocarbon having a first rate of evaporation, and, as a minor component, second liquid hydrocarbon having a second rate of evaporation which, at room temperature, is at least an order of magnitude less than the first rate of evaporation.

Imaging apparatus and toner therefor

Imaging apparatus and method and liquid toner therefor

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Rehovot, Israel

Peretz Ben Avraham