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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2015
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
CORNING INCORPORATED, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of printing a decoration on a substrate include inkjet printing a plurality of inks to form a layer having a predetermined pattern on a surface of the substrate, wherein each of the inks includes a solvent and has a different color; heating the substrate to evaporate at least a portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks; and thermally curing the layer after evaporating at least the portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks to form the decoration. The substrate is heated to a temperature that evaporates at least the portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks without fully curing the plurality of inks. A boiling point of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks is within 10° C. of each other.