Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Company

Yi-Hua Tsao

George Sarkisian

Christian Schmid

Keshava A Prasad

Mark L Choy

Rodney David Stramel

Howard Doumaux

Richard B Anderson

Yubai Bi

Xiaohe Chen

Max Yen

Ervin Mubarekyan

Steven B Elgee

Tienteh Chen

Gregg A Lane

Bor-Jiunn Niu

Hai Quang Tran

Eric Lee Burch

Geoff Wotton

John L Stoffel, Jr

Paul Joseph Bruinsma

Dennis Z Guo

Dennis P Parazak

Eytan Cohen

Or Brandstein

Alex Trubnikov

Richard J Mcmanus

Jie Zheng

Douglas E Knight

Gary W Byers

Benjamin Abelovski

Elizabeth Ann Visnyak

Fereshteh Khorrami

Shunqiong Yue

Jon A Crabtree

Alireza Rahimi

Richard A Sader

Jun Yang

Savka Ilieva Stoeva

Shimrit Rubin

Olakemi Akinlabi

Peter C Zahrobsky

Bill Sperry

Marisa Samoshin

Barbara A Kumpf

Or Pinkesfeld

Jessica Rikki Vosler

Ervin Muberekyan

Tze Hwei Tseeng

Pradeep Kumar Koyadan Kizhakkedath

Maria Alexeevna Kabalnova

Marisa Weaver

Chris Schmid

Jennifer Tseeng

An example of a liquid ink includes a pigment dispersion, a polyurethane dispersion, a polytetrafluoroethylene wax emulsion, a co-solvent, and a balance of water. A particle diameter of a polytetrafluoroethylene wax in the polytetrafluoroethylene wax emulsion is less than 50 nm. Examples of the liquid ink may be incorporated into a thermal inkjet printing system.

Liquid ink containing polytetrafluoroethylene wax emulsion

An example of a liquid bonding agent, for a liquid ink including a wax emulsion in an amount less than 1% actives, includes a calcium salt, the wax emulsion, an acetylenic surfactant, a glycol, and a balance of water. The wax emulsion is present in the liquid bonding agent in an amount ranging from greater than 0% actives to about 2% actives. The liquid bonding agent is to be digitally printed with a thermal inkjet printhead on a substrate under the liquid ink.

Liquid bonding agent for liquid ink

The present disclosure refers to an inkjet ink set including a black ink with a black pigment, a yellow ink with a yellow pigment, a cyan ink with a cyan pigment and a magenta ink with a magenta pigment, wherein at least one of the ink further contains a polyurethane binder; non-ionic surfactants; humectant solvent; non-volatile glycol ether co-solvent; a polyethylene wax emulsion and a balance of water. The inkjet ink set can also includes an orange ink, a green ink and/or a violet ink. The present disclosure refers also to a system for printing the ink set described herein.

Inkjet ink set

An ink composition is disclosed herein. The ink composition includes from about 5 wt % to about 25 wt % of a co-solvent; from about 0.025 wt % to about 0.2 wt % of i) a chelating agent represented by formula 1, wherein R' is a carboxylic acid functional group or a carboxylate salt functional group and n&#x3e;2; ii) a chelating agent represented by formula 2:, wherein R is a carboxylic acid functional group or a carboxylate salt functional group, m is greater than or equal to 1, x is greater than or equal to 2, y is greater than or equal to 1, and z is greater than or equal to 2; iii) a chelating agent represented by formula 3, wherein any of r, s, t, or u is a sulfonic acid functional group or a sulfonate functional group; or iv) combinations of any of i, ii, and iii. The ink composition also includes a balance of water.

Ink composition

An inkjet ink set includes a black ink, a yellow ink, a cyan ink, and a magenta ink. The magenta ink includes an ink vehicle including a polyurethane binder, and a dispersed magenta pigment in the ink vehicle. The magenta pigment is chosen from Pigment Red 282.

Compositions, systems, and methods for providing smudge resistant and durable ink-jet images having good optical density are provided. Specifically, a system for printing durable ink-jet ink images can comprise a first ink-jet pen containing an ink-jet ink and a second ink-jet pen containing a fixer composition. The ink-jet ink can comprise a first liquid vehicle and a colorant. The fixer composition can comprise a second liquid vehicle, and from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % of a cationic copolymer of an epihalohydrin and an amine. Upon overprinting or underprinting the fixer composition with respect to the ink-jet ink on a substrate, a durable image can be formed.

Ink-jet printing methods compositions providing improved image durability

An ink for use in inkjet printing has a colorant which has a precipitation rate in the presence of a predetermined fixer that is selected to have a value sufficiently low as to enable an increase in dot size of the colorant and produce a better color.

Reactive color inks

The invention relates to dissolving an anionic dye/cationic polymer complex including the step of applying to the complex a water-soluble solvent having a dielectric constant from 20 to 43 at standard temperature and pressure.

Dissolving complexes of anionic dye/cationic polymeric fixer

The present invention includes a method of enhancing color space of dye-based ink. The print zone is heated while depositing fixer fluid and dye-based ink. In an embodiment, the print zone is heated to a temperature between about 45&#xb0; C. and 85&#xb0; C. The fixer fluid may be underprinted and/or overprinted. Printing may be effected using any desired print mode, including one-pass, two-pass or four-pass.

Enhancing color space of reactive ink using heat

A fixer fluid for an inkjet ink set includes an aqueous vehicle, and a tri-alkyl-substituted amine-N-oxide. The fixer fluid also includes an acid, a cationic polyelectrolyte, or combinations of the acid and polyelectrolyte(s).

Fixer fluid and inkjet ink sets including the same

Print media and methods of making print media are disclosed. One exemplary print medium, among others, includes a substrate having a fibrous component. In addition, a cationic guanidine polymer compound or salt thereof and a metallic salt are each disposed within the fibrous component of the substrate.

Print media and methods of making print media

In accordance with the present invention an inkjet composition is provided. The inkjet composition includes an anionic dye, at least one pigment, and an acidic fluid fixer, wherein the acidic fluid fixer includes at least one cationic component. Also provided are methods of printing images using an inkjet printer. Also provided are inkjet printers that include the inkjet composition.

Inkjet compositions

A fixer fluid having reduced kogation. The fixer fluid includes at least one phosphate ester surfactant and at least one cationic polymer, wherein the fixer fluid is formulated so that the at least one phosphate ester surfactant does not precipitate with the at least one cationic polymer. The at least one phosphate ester surfactant may be an anionic phosphate ester surfactant or an amphoteric phosphate ester surfactant. If the at least one phosphate ester surfactant is an anionic phosphate ester surfactant, it may have greater than or equal to approximately 2 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of the phosphate ester surfactant. The present invention also relates to an inkjet ink having reduced kogation and a method of producing a fixer fluid having reduced kogation.

Anti-kogation additives compatible with cationic polymers for fixer-based printing systems

The invention relates to dissolving an anionic dye/cationic polymer complex comprising the step of applying to the complex a water-soluble solvent having a dielectric constant from 20 to 43 at standard temperature and pressure.

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Yi-Hua Tsao