Arkwright, Inc.

Arkwright Advanced Coating, Inc.

Robert M Conforti

William M Risen, Jr

Zhong Xu

Khizyr Kharunovich Khoultchaev

Cau T Ho

Khizyr K Kloultchaev

An ink-jet media having an absorbent substrate with a front surface and a back surface. The front surface of the substrate is coated with an ink-vehicle permeable, preferably radiation-cured coating. A microporous ink-receptive coating is deposited on top of the ink-vehicle permeable coating. An optional protective layer may be deposited on top of the microporous ink-receptive layer. The back surface of the substrate may also be optionally coated with a polymer curl-controlling coating.

Ink-jet media having an ink-vehicle permeable coating and a microporous coating

An improved ink-jet printable heat-transfer medium comprising a base substrate having a surface coated with a hot-melt layer and an ink-receptive layer is provided. The ink-receptive layer comprises: i) non-polymeric organic particles that are a reaction product of a diamine and two molecules, each molecule having at least one carboxylic acid group and at least five carbon atoms, ii) thermoplastic polymer particles, and iii) a thermoplastic film-forming binder. The heat-transfer paper can produce printed images having improved color quality, hand, and wash-durability on a variety of fabric materials.

Media having ink-receptive coatings for heat-transferring images to fabrics

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Wakefield, RI, United States of America

Robert M Conforti