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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
May. 31, 2000
Lori P. Engle, Little Canada, MN (US);
Robert T. Fehr, St. Paul, MN (US);
Patrick R. Fleming, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Paul D. Graham, Woodbury, MN (US);
Douglas A. Huntley, Maplewood, MN (US);
Verna J. LeMire, White Bear Lake, MN (US);
Jeffrey L. Solomon, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Todd R. Williams, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Caroline M. Ylitalo, Stillwater, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A receptor medium with a sheet having a random microembossed imaging surface as one major surface thereof. The receptor medium can receive jettable materials, which include inks, adhesives, biological fluids, chemical assay reagents, particulate dispersions, waxes, electrically, thermally, or magnetically modifiable materials, and combinations thereof. The random microembossed medium unexpectedly solves such common inkjet printing problems as feathering, banding, and mudcracking in inkjet printing systems by controlling how an inkjet drop contacts and dries on an inkjet receptor medium and also Moire' effects. Clear lines of demarcation between adjoining colors of a pigmented inkjet image graphic can be obtained without creation of the Moire' effects. Methods of making and using the inkjet receptor medium are also disclosed.