A printing apparatus includes a glue belt as an example of a transport belt including a support unit configured to support a medium, the support unit being configured to transport a medium by moving the support unit, a liquid ejecting unit configured to eject liquid onto a medium supported by the support unit, and a dyeing unit configured to perform dyeing by immersing a medium in dyeing liquid. Printing is performed on the medium by combining dyeing by the dyeing unit and ejecting by the liquid ejecting unit.

Provided is an active energy ray-curable ink composition for offset printing capable of achieving superior gloss of printed matter. The ink composition comprises a compound having at least one ethylenically unsaturated bond and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein a group of materials having no ethylenically unsaturated bonds, having a specified SP value, and exhibiting a liquid state at room temperature is added to the ink composition up to the upper limit depending on the SP value. Examples of such a group of materials include castor oil, hardened castor oil, polymerized castor oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil, epoxidized fats and oils, alkylphenols having C15-C18 alkyl groups, cashew nut shell liquid, polymers of cashew nut shell, and modified derivatives of cashew nut shell liquid.

An ink set containing an inkjet ink and a treatment liquid used in combination with the inkjet ink, wherein the inkjet ink contains a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, a surfactant and water, the water-soluble organic solvent contains a glycol ether-based organic solvent having a specific structure, the treatment liquid contains a coagulant, the coagulant contains calcium nitrate in an amount of 6.8 to 20.8% by mass relative to the total mass of the treatment liquid, and the amount of compounds contained in the treatment liquid that have three or more hydroxyl groups is not more than 15% by mass relative to the total mass of the treatment liquid.

A fixer fluid can include a fixer vehicle with water, an NH-type or N-alkylated lactam co-solvent, and a phosphate ester surfactant. The fixer fluid can further include from 0.5 wt % to 12 wt % an azetidinium-containing polyamine polymer dispersed in the fixer vehicle.

A curable clear ink composition is provided. The curable clear ink composition comprises a surfactant, a monofunctional polymerizable compound having a static surface tension of 33 mN/m or less at 25 degrees C. in an amount of 10% by mass or more but 30% by mass or less, an oligomer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 1,000 or more, and an acylphosphine oxide polymerization initiator in an amount of 8% by mass or more but 12% by mass or less.

An article and a method of making thereof. The article includes a polymeric film having a first major surface and a second major surface; and a plurality of discrete domains of an inkjet printing ink comprising a low adhesion backsize coating composition deposited on the first major surface of the polymeric film; wherein the low adhesion backsize coating composition has a viscosity between 1 to 30 cp at a printing temperature between 20 to 70 degrees Celsius.

An article and a method of making thereof. The article includes a polymeric film having a first major surface and a second major surface; a first plurality of domains of a first inkjet printing ink comprising a first low adhesion backsize coating composition deposited on the first major surface of the polymeric film; and a second plurality of domains of a second inkjet printing ink comprising a second low adhesion backsize coating composition deposited on the first major surface of the polymeric film; wherein the first and second low adhesion backsize coating composition has a viscosity between 1 to 30 cp at a printing temperature between 20 to 70 degrees Celsius; and wherein at least some of the first plurality of domains overlaps some of the second plurality of domains.

Provided herein is an aqueous polymer dispersion including A) a polymer synthesized from monomers including a) 1.0 to 90% by weight of at least one alkyl (meth)acrylate; b) 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated acid or vinyl monomer with latent ionic groups; c) 0 to 5.0% by weight of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one keto or aldehyde group; d) 1.0 to 90% by weight of at least one vinyl ester of saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid in which the carboxyl groups are attached to tertiary and/or quaternary carbon atoms; e) 0 to 20% by weight of at least one vinyl aromatics; and f) 0 to 20% by weight, based on the total amount of monomers for the synthesis of polymer A), of at least one hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate. Also included herein is an ink anchorage primer that enhances ink bonding.

Provided is an inkjet recording method comprising the step of forming an image by applying an ink containing at least a coloring material and a processing liquid containing at least a flocculant to a surface of a recording medium by a droplet discharge device, respectively, to coalescence the ink and the processing liquid, wherein the processing liquid is applied to an image forming region on which the image is formed and a peripheral region of the image forming region, and an application amount of the processing liquid to be applied to the peripheral region of the image forming region is controlled to be the same as an application amount of the processing liquid to be applied at an end portion of the image forming region.

A method for producing a relief-like printed image on containers is described in which print layers are layered onto one another by way of jet application of a printing paint, an ink, a varnish, or an adhesive from at least one print head onto a container, thereby producing elevated regions of the printed image. Due to the fact that the print layers are each applied in full tone printing, optical and haptic effects can be created on container surfaces with low equipment complexity and a minimal number of printing steps.