Method for manufacturing panels having a decorative surface, wherein the panels at least comprise a substrate and a top layer, wherein the top layer comprises a paper layer having a printed pattern, and wherein the method at least comprises the step of providing the paper layer with thermosetting resin and the step of providing the resin provided paper layer with at least a portion of the printed pattern, wherein for providing the portion of the printed pattern use is made of pigment containing inks deposited on the paper layer by means of a digital inkjet printer, and wherein the dry weight of the total volume of the pigment containing inks deposited on the paper layer is lower than 9 grams per square meter, wherein for the pigment containing ink use is made of a water-based ink.

A fabric print medium containing a fabric base substrate and a primer layer composition applied to the fabric base substrate. Said primer layer composition includes at least three types of polymeric particles, at least two different fire retardant agents and a water-soluble high-valence metal complex. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.

In one example, a print medium includes pigment particles sized less than a hundred nanometers and frictional control additives. An undercoating is disposed between the base material and top coating. The undercoat includes a first sub-layer comprising a pigment fixative agent and a second sub-layer comprising a dye fixative agent. The top coating forms a protective and low friction coating over the undercoating.

An inkjet receptive composition for use on glossy paper substrates may include a polymer binder, a multivalent salt, a pigment, a surfactant, a defoamer, and water. The polymer may be a polyurethane dispersion. The multivalent salt may be calcium chloride, and the water may be present in an amount greater than about 40 wt %. The inkjet receptive composition may have a viscosity in the range of about 3 and about 500 cP.

The present invention is to provide a coated paper for industrial inkjet printing presses comprising: a base paper, and a coating layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a cationic resin and a water-soluble polyvalent cationic salt, and a pigment containing kaolin, on the base paper; wherein the content of the kaolin is 30 parts by mass to 80 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the pigment in the coating layer, an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) stipulated in JIS B 0601:2001 (ISO 4287:1997) of a coated paper surface on the side where the coating layer is located is 4.5 μm to 7.5 μm, the coated paper surface on the side where the coating layer is located has 1 to 350 protruding parts per 1.0 square centimeter, and the protruding part is a protruding part having the maximum width of 10 μm to 100 μm measured using a photographed image of the coated paper surface taken by magnifying 50 times using an electron microscope.

According to the present invention, coated paper for industrial inkjet printing presses that achieves excellent uniformity in color densities and ink absorbability, that has capability of suppressing strike-through of inks, and that achieves excellent paper feeding characteristics can be provided.

The present invention is drawn to a method of treating silica in an aqueous environment. The method can comprise steps of dispersing silica particulates in an aqueous environment to form an aqueous dispersion; reversing the net charge of a surface of the silica particulates from negative to positive using a surface activating agent, thereby forming surface-activated silica particulates dispersed in the water; and contacting the surface-activated silica particulates with organosilane reagents to form reagent-modified and surface-activated silica particulates.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a reproduction of a painting, which can use different types of paintings as original paintings and reproduce the matiere of the original painting and which also improves the light stability of ink. According to the present invention, there is provided a method for manufacturing a reproduction of a painting, comprising: forming an irregularity-reproducing layer, which has irregularities reflecting the irregularities of the painting being an original painting, on a base sheet by use of a slurried mixture containing an organic binder, calcium hydroxide having a volume-based median diameter (d50), as measured by laser diffraction scattering, of 10 μm or less, and a water-insoluble inorganic powder having a volume-based median diameter (d50), as measured by laser diffraction scattering, of 5.0 μm or less; and printing the painting on the irregularity-reproducing layer by inkjet printing.

An inkjet recording method for printing an inkjet recording medium comprising an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic pigment, starch and copolymer latex on a surface of a base with inkjet ink as aqueous pigment ink, a content of the inorganic pigment being 10 g/m.sup.2 or more to 35 g/m.sup.2 or less in the ink-receiving layer,and a content of calcium carbonate being from 80% by weight or more to 100% by weight or less, the inkjet ink containing one or more selected from self dispersed pigment and pigment containing water-insoluble polymer particles, from 10% by weight or more to 48% by weight or less of a water-soluble organic solvent A having a boiling point of 230° C. or less, from 0% by weight or more to 5.0% by weight or less of a water-soluble organic solvent B having a boiling point of 280° C. or more, from 42% by weight or more to 70% by weight or less of water.

Microporous structures in face films are described for improving printability of the films. Also described are laminates and pressure sensitive adhesive laminates including the microporous structured face films. Various related methods are additionally described.

The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by dry weight, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, 1 wt % to 20 wt % of an optical brightener, and 1 wt % to 10 wt % of an anti-quenching agent selected from the group consisting of a sulfonated diphenyloxide, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and combination thereof. In this example, if the polymeric binder is polyvinyl pyrrolidone, the anti-quenching agent is the sulfonated diphenyloxide.