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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2009
Krzysztof Nauka, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manoj K. Bhattacharyya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Krzysztof Nauka, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manoj K. Bhattacharyya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A process for removing ink from a printed media substrate. Such process includes the step of providing a media substrate including an ink printed image wherein the ink composition or the media substrate contains photolabile entities. Then the process includes the step of applying UV light on the printed substrate wherein the emitted UV light has a wavelength value which is below the threshold wavelength of the photolabile entities.