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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Arun Chowdry, Pittsford, NY (US);
Thomas Nathaniel Tombs, Brockport, NY (US);
John Walter May, Rochester, NY (US);
NexPress Solutions LLC, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method of making an ink-jet-ink-derived material image on a receiver. An ink jet device is used to form a colloidal ink image on a member. The ink for use in the ink jet device includes an aqueous-based colloidal dispersion of particles and a nonaqueous colloidal dispersion of particles. The ink for use in the ink jet device includes an aqueous-based colloidal dispersion of particles, a nonaqueous colloidal dispersion of particles. The particles of the colloidal ink image are caused to become concentrated adjacent an operational surface of the member. Excess liquid is removed from the particles so as to form an ink-jet-ink-derived material image. The ink-jet-ink-derived image is then transferred from the operational surface of the intermediate member to another member, which another member may be a receiver member, a drum or a web.