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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Peter Gordon Odell, Mississauga, CA;
Paul F. Smith, Oakville, CA;
Jennifer Lynne Belelie, Oakville, CA;
Eniko Toma, Mississauga, CA;
Stephan Drappel, Toronto, CA;
C. Geoffrey Allen, Waterdown, CA;
Rina Carlini, Mississauga, CA;
Christopher A. Wagner, Toronto, CA;
Peter Gordon Odell, Mississauga, CA;
Paul F. Smith, Oakville, CA;
Jennifer Lynne Belelie, Oakville, CA;
Eniko Toma, Mississauga, CA;
Stephan Drappel, Toronto, CA;
C. Geoffrey Allen, Waterdown, CA;
Rina Carlini, Mississauga, CA;
Christopher A. Wagner, Toronto, CA;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
The phase change ink a viscosity of from about 4 mPa-s to about 50 mPa-s at a first temperature and has a viscosity of from 10mPa-s to about 10mPa-s at a second lower temperature. The second temperature may be below the first temperature by at least 10° C. but by no more than 50° C. The first temperature may be from about 60° C. to about 110° C. and the second temperature may be from about 20° C. to about 70° C. A curve of logviscosity of the phase change ink plotted against temperature in degrees Celsius may have a slope having an absolute value less than 0.02 at the first temperature and have a slope having an absolute value greater than 0.08 for at least a region second temperatures.