The invention herein relates to a curable composition, such as UV or EB curable composition, comprising: a metal salt comprising an anionic form of an organic compound, which organic compound comprises at least one polymerisable unsaturated group and an acidic hydrogen; and water. The curable composition is suitable for priming, printing on, or varnishing a substrate, as well as to methods of preparing said compositions, methods for priming, printing on, or varnishing a substrate, and printing presses utilising said compositions.

An intermediate transfer medium that allows formation of high-density images on a transfer layer while suppressing printing unevenness and provides good foil cutting properties of the transfer layer, a combination of the intermediate transfer medium and a thermal transfer sheet, and a method for forming a print using the intermediate transfer medium. In an intermediate transfer medium having a transfer layer on a substrate, the transfer layer has a single layer structure including only a receiving layer or a layered structure including the receiving layer. When the transfer layer has the layered structure, the receiving layer is located furthest from the substrate among layers constituting the transfer layer. The receiving layer contains a binder resin having a number average molecular weight of 8000-32000 and a release agent. The content of the release agent based on the total mass of the receiving layer is 6% by mass or more.

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a decorative building board, including: ejecting active ray-curable ink from an ink jet recording head onto a building board that includes a base material selected from a metallic base material and a ceramic base material and an ink receiving layer arranged on the base material, the ink receiving layer being obtained by curing a resin composition and having an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) specified under JIS B 0601:2001 of from 0.4 m to 3 m, to thereby perform printing on the ink receiving layer; and irradiating the active ray-curable ink with an active ray from 2.2 seconds to 30 seconds after the active ray-curable ink lands on the ink receiving layer.

An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording medium which exhibits excellent adhesiveness with respect to an ink and has excellent scratch resistance and in which density unevenness at the time of printing is suppressed, a method for manufacturing the ink jet recording medium, a printed material using the ink jet recording medium, a method for manufacturing the printed material, ornamental glass, and a roll. An ink jet recording medium of the present invention has a support and an ink receiving layer on at least one surface of the support, in which the ink receiving layer is a cured layer of a composition containing a radical polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a compound represented by Formula C-1. ##STR00001##

The invention relates to a composite comprising a base layer, preferably made of plastic foam, wood, plaster, plywood, cork, cardboard, metals or alloys, cement, concrete, stone, ceramics, glass, acrylic polymer, alumina trihydrate; an adhesive layer or a fabric layer, said layer positioned onto the base layer; one or more recurring set of layers, said set of layers comprising an adhesive layer and a fabric layer, wherein the one or more recurring set of layers are positioned onto the adhesive layer or fabric layer, in an alternate order; provided that the composite comprises at least 3 layers in addition to the base layer. In one embodiment, the base layer is an object or surface covered with the described layers.

A printable recording media containing a substrate and an ink receiving layer including an aqueous mixture of about 50 to about 99 wt % of an UV curable polyurethane dispersion and about 1 to about 50 wt % of a photo-initiator by total dry weight of said ink receiving layer. Also disclosed herein a method for making the printable recording media.

The present invention provides energy curable compositions comprising self-initiating oligomers, amine synergists and Group IV metal chelates. The compositions optionally comprise acrylate monomers having carbonate ester, carbamate, or oxazolidinone groups. The compositions of the present invention exhibit improved cure, and are suitable for packaging, such as food packaging.

An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording medium which exhibits excellent adhesiveness with respect to an ink and has excellent scratch resistance and in which density unevenness at the time of printing is suppressed, a method for manufacturing the ink jet recording medium, a printed material using the ink jet recording medium, a method for manufacturing the printed material, ornamental glass, and a roll.

An ink jet recording medium of the present invention has a support and an ink receiving layer on at least one surface of the support, in which the ink receiving layer is a cured layer of a composition containing a radical polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a compound represented by Formula C-1.

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An image forming method for forming an image on a substrate, includes: forming a resin layer on the substrate; adhering a transfer sheet having a sublimable dye ink layer on a surface thereof to the resin layer, the sublimable dye ink layer including a sublimable dye ink; and heating the transfer sheet to transfer the sublimable dye ink to the resin layer. Forming the resin layer includes: ejecting a resin liquid from an inkjet head to adhere the resin liquid to the substrate, the resin liquid including a resin component capable of being polymerized by ultraviolet irradiation; and polymerizing the resin component by ultraviolet radiation to form the resin layer on the substrate.

An inkjet printed flexible film for decor applications is provided. In particular the present invention relates to an inkjet printed flexible film comprising a polymer film and an ink-receptive layer comprising polymerizable and/or crosslinkable compounds or a polymer crosslinked via (meth)acrylate moieties. Ink pigments can be applied to the ink-receptive layer in a print pattern by ink jet printing. The ink-receptive layer can be printed by means of industrial digital inkjet printing. The decor applications include any decorated surfaces for flooring, wall covering, furniture, ceilings and the like.