This disclosure describes substrate(s) formed with a three-dimensional (3D) feature thereon, and method(s) of printing the same. One method includes identifying a plurality of locations on a substrate surface where the three-dimensional feature will be formed, determining a height value of the three-dimensional feature at each location, assigning a grayscale value to each location based on the height value, and applying ink to the substrate surface at each location according to the assigned grayscale value.

An ink contains water, Pigment Red 269, a compound represented by the following Chemical formula (1), and at least one of a silicone compound and an acetylene glycol compound, where the proportion of the compound represented by the following Chemical formula (1) to the Pigment Red 269 is 2.0 percent by mass or less: ##STR00001##

A method is for printing on a narrow face of a workpiece, in which surface information relating to at least some regions of at least one workpiece face adjoining the narrow face to be printed on is optically captured by a sensor device, the captured surface information is transferred to a print controller, and the print controller ascertains print information for controlling a printing unit on the basis of the captured surface information. The print information is used to control a printing process by which a narrow face decoration, which is matched to a decoration flow of the optically captured workpiece face, is printed on the narrow face.

A dye ink composition includes: a compound A represented by the general formula (I-1-1) or (I-1-2) as defined herein; a compound B represented by the general formula (1-2-1) or (I-2-2) as defined herein; at least one of a compound C-I represented by the general formula (I-3-1-1) or (I-3-1-2) as defined herein or a compound C-II represented by the general formula (I-3-2-1) or (I-3-2-2) as defined herein; a compound D represented by the general formula (I-4-1) or (I-4-2) as defined herein; and water, in which, as defined herein, a ratio of W.sub.1 to W.sub.A1 is 6.0% to 35.0% by mass, a ratio of W.sub.2 to W.sub.A1 is 20.0% to 45.0% by mass, a ratio of W.sub.3 to W.sub.A1 is 15.0% to 45.0% by mass, and a ratio of W.sub.4 to W.sub.A1 is 1.0% to 30.0% by mass.

A pretreatment liquid for an impermeable base material includes an anionic resin, and an aqueous medium, in which the anionic resin has a Clog P value of 1.40 or greater, and a content of a structural unit derived from an alkyl (meth)acrylate containing a chain alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms in the anionic resin is less than 5% by mass with respect to a total mass of the anionic resin.

An example of an inkjet composition includes a colorant, a density modifier selected from the group consisting of a triiodo amino derivative of isophthalic acid, a mixture of polysucrose and sodium diatrizoate, colloidal silica particles coated with polyvinylpyrrolidone, and combinations thereof; and an aqueous vehicle. The inkjet composition may be inkjet printed on a substrate, using a thermal or piezoelectric printer.

The present invention is directed to an article, especially a door and a door component, such as a door facing (or door skin), having a pattern, preferably a woodgrain pattern. This invention also is directed to a method of making the door and the door component such as the door facing (or door skin) by inkjet printing of a pattern on the door facing (or door skin). The printing direction and ink droplets are provided to deliver a high quality image.

A method of manufacturing a pattern includes providing a pattern of a first liquid on a medium, applying a powder material to the provided pattern, and providing a second liquid to the powder material applied to the first liquid.

The present invention provides a method of multi-pass inkjet printing comprising: (i) providing an inkjet ink comprising a radiation-curable monomer and a photoinitiator; (ii) jetting the ink via a printhead on to a substrate, wherein the ink is applied in multiple passes of the printhead with respect to the substrate, with each pass jetting a portion of ink in a layer on the substrate, with a first layer being jetted directly on to the substrate and subsequent layers being jetted onto the preceding layer, to build an image formed of the multiple layers; and (iii) exposing all of the layers of ink to actinic radiation to cure the ink, wherein the order of jetting the layers and curing is that pairs of layers are applied to the substrate without exposing the first layer of the pair to actinic radiation prior to the second layer of the pair of layers being applied, curing the pair of layers simultaneously by exposing the pair of layers to actinic radiation, and repeating until the image is formed.

An image forming method includes a step of forming a white image by bringing a solution (A) containing a dissolved metal compound and a solution (B) containing a reactive ion reactive with a metal element of the metal compound into contact with each other on a recording medium to produce a white compound.