An inkjet printing method for manufacturing decorative laminate panels ordered by a customer includes i) providing an inkjet printing device with a print job including one or more decorative patterns and an identification code assigned to the one or more decorative patterns; and ii) printing the one or more decorative patterns with one or more inkjet inks and applying the identification code on a substrate web, wherein the substrate web is a paper substrate and the one or more inkjet inks are aqueous pigmented inkjet inks are printed on the substrate web before impregnation with a thermosetting resin; or the one or more inkjet inks are UV curable inkjet inks and the substrate web is a thermoplastic substrate web based on a material selected from the group consisting of polyvinylchloride (PVC), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene-terephthalate (PET) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU).

An adhesive gel nail includes: an adhesive layer; a color base layer formed on a top of the adhesive layer; a color printing layer formed on a top of the color base layer; a gel coating layer formed on a top of the color printing layer; and a decorative layer formed on a top of the gel coating layer, wherein a lower surface of the decorative layer is disposed on the color base layer.

A printing machine includes an inkjet printing head having separately controllable nozzles for applying ink to a transported printing material, a radiation drier having radiation sources for generating electromagnetic radiation to at least partly dry and/or cure the applied ink on the transported printing material and at least one light trap disposed between the inkjet printing head and the radiation drier in such a way that the light trap forms a barrier for reflected and/or scattered radiation, thus protecting the inkjet printing head from radiation. The light trap includes at least one channel connected to an aspiration device for aspirating contaminated ambient air through the channel and reducing or preventing contamination of the radiation drier.

The present invention relates to the field of and processes and printing apparatuses for producing optical effect layers (OEL) comprising magnetically oriented platelet-shaped magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles on a substrate. In particular, the present invention relates to processes using printing apparatuses comprising a first magnetic-field-generating device mounted on a transferring device (TD) and a static second magnetic-field-generating device for producing said OELs as anti-counterfeit means on security documents or security articles or for decorative purposes.

An image forming system includes a sheet processing apparatus, a heat presser, an image forming apparatus, and control circuitry. The sheet processing apparatus separates a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet, and sandwiches a sheet medium between the sheets of the two-ply sheet. The heat presser heats and presses the two-ply sheet. The control circuitry performs a first mode to cause the sheet processing apparatus to sandwich the sheet medium, on which an image has been formed by the image forming apparatus, between the two sheets of the two-ply sheet and cause the heat presser to laminate the two-ply sheet, and a second mode to cause the heat presser to laminate a sheet set that includes the sheet medium sandwiched between the two sheets of the two-ply sheet by a user.

A method for producing a decorative floor covering comprises digitally printing an adhesive on a printing substrate thus generating an adhesive layer forming an at least one-dimensionally patterned decorative motif. The adhesive is a radiation-curable composition, preferably essentially free from non-reactive solvents and/or from photoinitiator. The printing substrate includes one of a core structure and a wear layer. After the printing of the adhesive, the adhesive layer on the printing substrate is contacted with the other one of the core structure and the wear layer. The core structure and the wear layer are then attached to each other by electron-beam curing the adhesive layer between them.

A method for obtaining a glazing includes a glass sheet covered, on one of its faces with electroconductive patterns having in at least one area, a so-called extra thickness area, a greater thickness than in the other areas, the method including depositing by screenprinting a first electroconductive layer forming patterns on one side of the glass sheet, then depositing by a digital printing technique, in the or each extra thickness area, a second electroconductive layer on the first layer while the latter is still wet, then a heat treatment step to cure the first and the second layer.

An energy-efficient method of controlling the composite microstructure and resulting thermoelectric (TE) properties of TE composite films. The TE composite films, which include a small amount of naturally occurring chitosan binder that is sufficient to hold TE particles together, are modified by applying uniaxial mechanical pressure at low temperatures for a short duration. The TE composite films have high electrical conductivity and low thermal conductivity, making them ideal for use into high-performance energy harvesting thermoelectric devices.

There is provided an ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus configured to cure an ultraviolet-curable ink discharged to an object, by a discharging head which is configured to move in a main scanning direction, in a state that the ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus is moved in the main scanning direction. The ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting chips configured to emit an ultraviolet ray, the plurality of light emitting chips being arranged side by side with a first pitch in the main scanning direction and being arranged side by side with a second pitch smaller than the first pitch in a sub scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction.

A radiation curable inkjet ink set comprising a cyan inkjet ink containing a beta-copper phthalocyanine pigment and a polymerizable composition; a magenta inkjet ink containing a magenta or red pigment and a polymerizable composition; a yellow inkjet ink containing a yellow pigment and a polymerizable composition; and a black inkjet ink containing a carbon black pigment and a polymerizable composition; wherein the polymerizable compositions of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black inkjet inks include on average: a) 20.0 to 40.0 wt % of phenoxyethyl acrylate; b) 23.0 to 32.0 wt % of isobornyl acrylate; c) 1.0 to 14.4 wt % of monomer selected from the group consisting of 4-acryloylmorpholine and a monomer according to Formula (I), wherein X represents C or O, n represents 1, 2 or 3 and m represents 0 or 1; and d) up to 14.0 wt % of a multifunctional monomer or oligomer; wherein all weight percentages (wt %) are based upon the total weight of the inkjet ink; and wherein 0, 1 or 2 of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black inkjet inks deviate in a range a) to d) and this deviation is no more than 1.0 wt %.

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