A method of manufacturing a transparent pattern printed steel plate includes forming a printed paint film layer by jetting transparent ink onto at least one surface of a steel plate, and curing the printed paint film layer with ultraviolet light to form a cured printed paint film layer. Further, a method of manufacturing a transparent pattern printed steel plate includes preparing a steel plate having a color painted film layer formed on at least one surface thereof, forming a printed paint film layer by jetting transparent ink onto the color painted film layer, and curing the printed paint film layer to form a cured printed paint film layer.

A decorative material is designed with excellent visual effect and a bright pattern layer on a base material, wherein the layer has at least a first and second bright ink layer, the first and second bright ink layer satisfy the following relationship (A) or (B), each bright ink layer is provided on at least part of the base material when the decorative material is viewed in a plan view, and the first layer has a region overlapping and a region that not overlapping the second layer, and the second layer has a region overlapping and a region not overlapping the first layer. (A) The first bright ink layer contains a first bright pigment, and the second bright ink layer contains a different second bright pigment. (B) The first and second bright ink layer contain bright pigments, and the first layer pigment content is different from the second layer pigment content.

A UV curable inkjet ink contains at least one free radical photoinitiator and at least 30 wt % of a mixture including 0 to 45 wt % of a polymerizable oligomer, at least 5 wt % of a polyfunctional propoxylated acrylate and at least 20 wt % of a monofunctional ethoxylated methacrylate according to Formula (I):

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with n representing an integer of 1 to 4 and R representing an alkyl group; the weight ratio of the polyfunctional propoxylated acrylate over the monofunctional ethoxylated methacrylate is less than 1.60; and all the weight percentages wt % are based on the total weight of the UV curable inkjet ink.

The present invention relates to a colored metal film comprising a metal article and a plurality of pores. The plurality of pores further comprises a high layer, an intermediate layer, and a low layer, in which the three layers together forms an embossed image. The present invention also relates to a method of manufacturing colored metal films. The method is used to manufacture a flat image or an embossed image on a metal article. The method comprises a finishing process, a first coating process, a color adjustment, a first printing process, an etching process, a second coating process, a second printing process, a sealing process, and a cleaning process.

An ink contains water, a coloring material, a resin, two or more types of organic solvents, and a surfactant, wherein the ink is horizontally discharged to a substrate.

A recording method is a method including an adhesion step of adhering an ink composition to a recording medium, in which the recording medium is a low-absorbing recording medium or a non-absorbing recording medium, the adhesion step is performed by scanning that is carried out by jetting the ink composition from an ink jet head to make the ink composition adhere to the recording medium while moving relative positions of the ink jet head and the recording medium, the scanning is performed seven times or less on an identical region of the recording medium, the ink composition is an aqueous ink containing a coloring material and a silicone-based surfactant A, and a maximum peak of the silicone-based surfactant A in a molecular weight range of 300 or greater is present in a range of 3000 to 20000 in a molecular weight distribution obtained by gel permeation chromatography.

A method of printing a decoration on a substrate include inkjet printing a plurality of inks to form a layer having a predetermined pattern on a surface of the substrate, wherein each of the inks includes a solvent and has a different color; heating the substrate to evaporate at least a portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks; and thermally curing the layer after evaporating at least the portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks to form the decoration. The substrate is heated to a temperature that evaporates at least the portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks without fully curing the plurality of inks. A boiling point of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks is within 10° C. of each other.

A method of forming a metallic pattern on a substrate is provided. The method includes applying onto a metallic surface, a chemically surface-activating solution having an activating agent that chemically activates the metallic surface; non-impact printing an etch-resist ink on the activated surface to produce an etch resist mask according to a predetermined pattern, wherein at least one ink component within the etch-resist ink undergoes a chemical reaction with the activated metallic surface to immobilize droplets of the etch-resist ink when hitting the activated surface; performing an etching process to remove unmasked metallic portions that are not covered with the etch resist mask; and removing the etch-resist mask.

A hybrid inkjet ink comprising a water miscible organic solvent, a UV radiation-curable material and appropriate photoinitiator, and an epoxide-containing material and printed decorations produced by applying the inkjet ink images to an aluminum substrate.

A heating article includes a substrate having two opposite surfaces, at least one of which is opaque, and a heat-stable coating arranged on the opaque surface. The heat-stable coating includes an at least two-color decoration having continuous tones and being provided in the form of a continuous or discontinuous layer. A method for manufacturing such an article includes applying a decoration composition on the opaque surface of the article to form a moist decoration layer, and then heating the moist decoration layer to form a decoration having the form of one of a continuous or discontinuous layer.