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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
May. 29, 2009
Xi Zeng, San Diego, CA (US);
Jason Swei, San Diego, CA (US);
Kali M. Campbell, San Diego, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A coated medium for inkjet printing is disclosed. The coated medium includes a coating layer formed on at least one side of a supporting substrate. The coating layer includes precipitated calcium carbonate with an average particle size of less than about 1 micron, silica with a surface area of greater than 100 m/g, a third inorganic pigment with an average particle size greater than that of precipitated calcium carbonate and selected from the group consisting of ground calcium carbonate (GCC) and clays, and at least one binder, wherein silica is present in an amount of at least 15 parts based on 100 parts of inorganic pigments in total.