A pressure sensitive adhesive particle includes a styrene resin that contains, as polymerization components, styrene and a vinyl monomer other than styrene; and a (meth)acrylate resin that contains, as polymerization components, at least two (meth)acrylates that account for 90 mass % or more of all polymerization components of the (meth)acrylate resin, in which the pressure sensitive adhesive particle has a sea phase that contains the styrene resin, and island phases that are dispersed in the sea phase and contain the (meth)acrylate resin, the pressure sensitive adhesive particle has at least two glass transition temperatures, and a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature is 30° C. or more, and in a cross section of the pressure sensitive adhesive particle, an area ratio of the island phases is 30% or more and 85% or less.

A method of manufacturing a paper or paperboard with improved printing properties, which method comprises the steps of, providing a paper or paperboard substrate, comprising cellulosic fibres, providing a coating composition comprising a mixture of an esterified or etherified starch and a inorganic mineral; and coating at least one surface of said substrate with at least one layer of said coating composition.

The present disclosure is drawn to leveling compositions, embossed print media, and methods of preparing embossed print media. The embossed print media can include a media substrate, an image-receiving layer applied to the media substrate at a coating weight of 3 gsm to 50 gsm, and a leveling composition layer. The image-receiving layer can include a pigment filler having an average particle size ranging from 0.1 μm to 20 μm and a polymeric binder, and in examples herein, is embossed. The leveling composition layer can be applied at a coating weight of 0.2 gsm to 3 gsm to the image-receiving layer, and can include a cationic ionene polymer.

The present disclosure is drawn to embossed print media including a media substrate having a front side and a back side, an embossed image-receiving layer formed on the front side of the media substrate at a coating weight of 3 gsm to 50 gsm, and a fabric liner coupled to the back side of media substrate via an adhesive layer. The embossed image-receiving layer can include a first pigment filler and a first polymeric binder. The adhesive layer can be applied at a coating weight from 20 gsm to 40 gsm and can include a second polymeric binder and a flame-retarding filler.

A image forming method of the present invention includes steps of forming a coloring material layer by applying an ink containing water and a dispersible coloring material dispersed in the water to the surface of a fabric by an inkjet method; and forming, on a surface of the coloring material layer, a protective layer having an average thickness smaller than that of the coloring material layer.

A fabric print medium comprising a fabric base substrate; a primary coating composition with a polymeric binder and filler particles applied to, at least, one side of the fabric base substrate; an image-receiving coating composition with a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network applied over the primary coating composition; and a barrier layer comprising a water-repellent agent and a physical gelling compound. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.

The recording medium according to the present invention includes a substrate, an ink receiving layer (1), and an ink receiving layer (2) arranged on the outermost surface. The ink receiving layer (2) has a thickness of 10 nm or more and 4000 nm or less. The ink receiving layer (1) contains a first inorganic particle and a first binder, and the ink receiving layer (2) contains a second inorganic particle and a second binder. The first binder and the second binder are each a water-insoluble resin. The contact angle θ1 formed between water and a surface of the ink receiving layer (1) is 90° or more, and the contact angle θ2 formed between water and the surface of the ink receiving layer (2) is 60° or more and 85° or less.

The recording medium includes: an absorbent substrate; and an ink receiving layer provided on the absorbent substrate. The dry coating amount of the ink receiving layer is 6.0 g/m.sup.2 or more to 11.0 g/m.sup.2 or less, arithmetic average roughness Ra1 (μm) of a surface of the absorbent substrate satisfies a relationship of Expression (1) below, arithmetic average roughness Ra1 and arithmetic average roughness Ra2 (μm) of a surface of the ink receiving layer satisfy a relationship of Expression (2) below, and an average length RSm1 (mm) of a roughness curve element of the surface of the absorbent substrate and an average length RSm2 (mm) of a roughness curve element of the surface of the ink receiving layer satisfy a relationship of Expression (3) below.

Ra1≥5.0 μm  (1)

Ra2/Ra1≥0.87  (2)

RSm2/RSm1≤1.40  (3)

A method of manufacturing printed matter includes applying a curable composition to a water-absorptive substrate, wherein the curable composition has a moisture content ratio of 0.4 percent by mass or less.

A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colourants on a surface of a panel, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. The method of forming a digital print on a surface of a panel includes displacing the panel under a digital drop application head, applying a liquid binder with the digital drop application head on the surface; applying colourants on the liquid binder and the surface; bonding a part of the colourants to the surface with the liquid binder; removing non-bonded colourants from the surface such that a digital print is formed by the bonded colourants; and applying heat and pressure on the panel, the surface and the bonded colorants such that the colourants are permanently bonded to the surface.