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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Richard Roy Jones, Hendersonville, NC (US);
Troy Lee Maybin, Zirconia, NC (US);
Jule Williasm Thomas, Jr, Hendersonville, NC (US);
Jose Esteban Valentini, Hendersonville, NC (US);
Sterling Diagnostic Imaging, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A recording media for phase change ink recording comprising: a support; 1-30 mg/dm.sup.2 of a receptive layer coated on the support wherein the receptive layer comprises: a binder comprising: a water soluble polymer; and a water insoluble polymer; wherein the combined weight of the water soluble polymer and the water insoluble polymer comprises at least 15%, by weight, and no more than 90%, by weight, water insoluble binder; and an inorganic particulate material with a hydrodynamic diameter in water of no more than 0.3 .mu.m wherein the inorganic particulate material represents at least 50%, by weight, and no more than 95%, by weight, of the combined coating weight of the water soluble polymer, the water insoluble polymer and the inorganic particulate material.