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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2015
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Barkev Keoshkerian, Thornhill, CA;
Carolyn Moorlag, Mississauga, CA;
Edward G. Zwartz, Mississauga, CA;
Naveen Chopra, Oakville, CA;
Marcel P. Breton, Mississauga, CA;
Sarah J. Vella, Milton, CA;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A process including providing a curable gellant ink composition having a phase transition temperature; heating the ink composition to a temperature above the phase transition temperature; depositing the ink composition onto a substrate; wherein upon contact with the substrate the ink composition freezes to provide a gel ink layer; treating at least a portion of the gel ink layer whereby treated gellant ink reacts to form a three-dimensional object and wherein untreated gellant ink does not react and remains in gellant form; optionally, wherein the unreacted gellant ink provides a support structure for overhang portions of the three-dimensional object.