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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2009
John M. Higgins, Cambridge, GB;
Danuta Gibson, Reach, GB;
Andrew M. Howe, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Clarke, Haslingfield, GB;
Stephanie V. Desrousseaux, Cambridge, GB;
Trevor J. Wear, Ely, GB;
John M. Higgins, Cambridge, GB;
Danuta Gibson, Reach, GB;
Andrew M. Howe, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Clarke, Haslingfield, GB;
Stephanie V. Desrousseaux, Cambridge, GB;
Trevor J. Wear, Ely, GB;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An inkjet printing system comprising a plurality of static inkjet printing units each comprising at least one inkjet printing head; an ink-receiving element comprising a poorly-absorbing or impermeable substrate; an aqueous inkjet composition which comprises a polymeric compound comprising discrete particles responsive to an external stimulus, and a functional material, which may be incorporated as part of the polymeric particles, the composition having a first rheological state and a different second rheological state in response to a stimulated change in conditions, the first state being associated with a first lower viscosity of the composition, wherein the particles have a first lower volume, and the second state being associated with a second higher viscosity of the composition, wherein the particles have a second higher volume, and of drying the aqueous ink composition only positioned downstream of the plurality of the printing units.