Laser jetting of droplets of a viscous material, such as an ink, is performed by coating a layer of ink on a mesh-like transport screen, with the ink being retained within spaces of the mesh-like transport screen. The ink-coated mesh-like transport screen is conveyed to a working area and a laser beam is used to heat the ink within the spaces of the mesh-like transport screen, thereby causing ink droplets to be jetted from the spaces of the mesh-like transport screen. Structures are formed on a receiving substrate arranged near the working area by jetting the ink droplets, either in an aggregation or sequentially, across a gap from the mesh-like transport screen to the receiving substrate and displacing the mesh-like transport screen and the laser beam relative to one another at times between the jetting of the droplets, or by directly printing ink droplets onto the receiving substrate.

To provide an aqueous ink having excellent storage stability and capable of recording an image having excellent abrasion resistance and the like. An aqueous ink for ink jet containing a resin particle, in which the resin particle is formed of a polyester resin having a carboxylic acid group, and an amount of carboxylic acid groups present on particle surfaces of the resin particle is 0.3 times or more to 0.8 times or less in terms of molar ratio with respect to all of the carboxylic acid groups in the polyester resin having the carboxylic acid group.

Disclosed is a substrate processing device which includes a substrate transfer part on which a transfer object is received and a jetting system part includes an ink jet body that jets and prints ink on the transfer object over an upper surface of the substrate transfer part, an ink module transfer part that transfers the ink jet body, an encoder disposed around the ink module transfer part to output a movement signal per unit movement distance of the ink module transfer part, an ink ejection controller that interworks with the ink jet body to control an ink jetting timing of the ink jet body, and a signal splitter that interworks with the encoder to count the movement signal, reset a width of the counted movement signal, and transmit the movement signal, the width of which is reset, to the ink ejection controller.

Methods, apparatus and system for decorating plastic articles having an uneven surface or hollow structure are disclosed. An assembly comprising a transfer pad and a flexible heat transfer die comprising a thermal interface material (TIM) replace the hard rubber die in a hot-stamping process to fuse indicia into the surface. The assembly modifies ordinary pad printing into a hot-stamping process that transfers indicia onto uneven surfaces. A pad printing machine or other robotics is used to move the assembly from a position of heating to a position of compressing the ink transfer to the surface of the article.

Eco-friendly signs such as wood and other natural material signs, and methods of making eco-friendly signs, including selecting a substrate as a base material having a first planar surface and an opposing second planar surface, cutting the substrate to a sign dimension, treating the first planar surface to form a smooth print surface, applying a base layer such as a layer of clear ink to the print surface, and applying a signage layer onto the base layer. The eco-friendly sign may be an ADA compliant sign in which the signage layer is a raised of ink produced using a 3-dimensional printer.

The present disclosure provides a method for processing a substrate that can maintain a production amount even when a production model is changed. The method for processing a substrate comprises: disposing the substrate on a levitation stage; measuring a distance between the substrate and an inkjet head module; and changing a discharging speed of ink to be discharged from the inkjet head module based on the measured distance.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamically personalizing a respiratory mask. A method for the dynamic personalization of a respiratory mask includes electronically scanning an identification of a guest on an oceangoing vessel, querying a data store of images of guest faces for an image of a face matching the identification of the guest, retrieving the matching image of the face into memory of the computing system, loading a printer with a respiratory mask such as an N95 mask or a KN95 mask, printing onto the mask a portion of the matching image of the face corresponding to a portion of the face obscured by the mask when the mask is worn by the guest and ejecting the mask with the printing from the printer.

An ink jet ink composition of the present disclosure is a water-based ink which includes a colorant; a surfactant; a fixing resin; and an organic solvent, the surfactant includes a silicone-based surfactant having an HLB value of 10.5 or less, the fixing resin includes an acrylic-based resin having a glass transition temperature of 35° C. to 95° C., and the organic solvent includes a 1,2-alkanediol having 4 carbon atoms or less and an alkanediol having diols at both terminals and 3 to 5 carbon atoms.

An example of a multi-fluid kit includes a pretreatment fluid, a fixer fluid, and a white inkjet ink. The pretreatment fluid includes anionically modified cellulose nanocrystals and a first aqueous vehicle. In some examples, the fixer fluid includes an azetidinium-containing polyamine and a second aqueous vehicle. The multi-fluid kit is suitable for use in inkjet textile printing.

An ink set contains a white ink composition containing a white coloring material and a resin, and a non-white ink composition containing a non-white coloring material and a resin. The white ink composition and the non-white ink composition are used with a treatment liquid containing a coagulant for coagulating a component of the non-white ink composition. When a 5% by mass calcium acetate monohydrate aqueous solution and each of the ink compositions are mixed, a ratio of the viscosity increase after the mixing to the viscosity increase before the mixing is lower in the white ink composition than in the non-white ink composition.