A printable sheet assembly and method provide for feeding cardstock sheets through a printer. The printable sheet assembly may include a first fold region. The first fold region comprises a robust perforated line disposed horizontally across the sheet assembly. The printable sheet assembly may include a second fold region. The second fold region may comprise a second robust perforated line disposed horizontally across the sheet assembly. The sheet assembly may include a product such as a name tag, business card, label, or card formed into the sheet assembly and configured to be processed through a printer device to receive indicia thereon.

Provided is a decorative sheet in which a graphic is less deteriorated even after injection molding. First and second graphic layers contain a plurality of interference pigments that emit respective interference lights having respective colors in a first direction in first and second binders to exhibit first and second mixed colors. An optical functional layer changes a reflectance property of light. The first and second graphic layers represent a graphic visually recognizable from a front surface of a decorative sheet and allow visually recognizing an image displayed on a back surface from the front surface. The optical functional layer increases at least one of ratios of an amount of visible light representing the graphic and an amount of visible light representing the image that transmits through the first and second graphic layers to an amount of visible light reflected by and visible on the front surface.

An aqueous energy curable inkjet ink that includes (A) an emulsified water-insoluble photopolymerizable compound, (B) a resin, which may be (B1) a photopolymerizable resin or (B2) a non-photopolymerizable resin, (C) a polyether macromer-modified poly(meth)acrylate, and (D) at least 25 wt. % water, based on a total weight of the aqueous energy curable inkjet ink. A printed article including the aqueous energy curable inkjet ink in dried and cured form, and a method of forming a printed image with an inkjet printhead are also provided.

An aqueous energy curable inkjet ink that includes (A) an emulsified water-insoluble photopolymerizable compound, (B) a resin, which may be (B1) a photopolymerizable resin or (B2) a non-photopolymerizable resin, (C) a polyether macromer-modified poly(meth)acrylate, and (D) at least 25 wt. % water, based on a total weight of the aqueous energy curable inkjet ink. A printed article including the aqueous energy curable inkjet ink in dried and cured form, and a method of forming a printed image with an inkjet printhead are also provided.

Provided is an ink set for security image recording comprising an infrared-absorbing ink jet ink which contains a polymerizable compound and an infrared absorbing dye and in which a maximum value of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm is larger than a maximum value of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 750 nm, and color ink jet inks which each contain a polymerizable compound and a colored colorant and satisfy a ratio of a maximum value of an absorbance of each of the color ink jet inks in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm to the maximum value of the absorbance of the infrared-absorbing ink jet ink in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm of 0.10 or less. Also provided are applications of the ink set.

Provided is an ink set for security image recording comprising an infrared-absorbing ink jet ink which contains a polymerizable compound and an infrared absorbing dye and in which a maximum value of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm is larger than a maximum value of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 750 nm, and color ink jet inks which each contain a polymerizable compound and a colored colorant and satisfy a ratio of a maximum value of an absorbance of each of the color ink jet inks in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm to the maximum value of the absorbance of the infrared-absorbing ink jet ink in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm of 0.10 or less. Also provided are applications of the ink set.

An ink which comprises a water-insoluble colorant, a dispersant, a polymer resin, and water. The polymer resin is one of four monomers which are methacrylic acid and three monomers selected respectively from among C1- to C4-alkyl methacrylates, C6- to C10-alkyl acrylates, and unsaturated C2- to C4-alkyl methacrylates; and a reactive emulsifier having a radical-polymerizable double bond in the molecule. An ink-jet recording method in which the ink is used; a recording medium to which the ink has been adhered; and an ink-jet printer including a vessel filled with the ink.

A water-dispersible sheet is described that maintains water dispersibility while providing suppressed time degradation of the tacky adhesiveness of a tacky adhesive layer. The water-dispersible sheet has a paper substrate with a multilayer structure. One layer of the multilayer structure is an inner layer that is not in contact with the tacky adhesive layer. Another layer is a surface layer that is in contact with the tacky adhesive layer. The layers independently include mixed pulps of a wood pulp and a refined pulp with an α-cellulose content of 88 % by weight or more. The weight ratio of the layers and the beating degree of the mixed pulps are set in the specific ranges.

A water-dispersible sheet is described that maintains water dispersibility while providing suppressed time degradation of the tacky adhesiveness of a tacky adhesive layer. The water-dispersible sheet has a paper substrate with a multilayer structure. One layer of the multilayer structure is an inner layer that is not in contact with the tacky adhesive layer. Another layer is a surface layer that is in contact with the tacky adhesive layer. The layers independently include mixed pulps of a wood pulp and a refined pulp with an α-cellulose content of 88 % by weight or more. The weight ratio of the layers and the beating degree of the mixed pulps are set in the specific ranges.

A thermally expandable sheet according to the present invention includes a stress buffer layer provided on one surface of a base material and having an elastic property, a thermal expansion layer provided on the stress buffer layer and containing a first thermally expandable material that expands according to heat and a first binder, and a cover layer provided on the thermal expansion layer and having an elastic property.