A decorative paper layer may include a base paper layer with a core. A pattern may be formed by digitally applying inks to at least one surface of the base paper layer. The inks may penetrate from the surface into the core of the base paper layer over a depth that is less than 30% of a thickness of the base paper layer. Methods are also provided for manufacturing printable papers and decorative paper layers, as well as inks that may be used in such methods.

The present invention provides: a vinyl chloride-based resin emulsion of a polymerization product composed of (A) a polycarbonate urethane oligomer having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 to 50,000 and (B) a monomer composition containing a vinyl chloride monomer, wherein the polycarbonate urethane oligomer (A) having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 to 50,000 is contained in an amount of 40 to 500 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the monomer composition (B) containing a vinyl chloride monomer; and a method for producing the vinyl chloride-based resin emulsion. The vinyl chloride-based resin emulsion according to the present invention can exhibit excellent water resistance, moisture resistance, high gloss, alcohol resistance, close adhesiveness and film formability at ambient temperature when used in a water-based ink, and can exhibit excellent color developability, water resistance, moisture resistance, color visibility, high gloss and close adhesiveness when used in recording paper, and therefore can be used effectively in a binder for an ink, a coating material and an inorganic substance dispersion, an absorption layer in recording paper, a fiber treating agent, wallpaper in medical facilities and the like.

The present disclosure is drawn to a base paper substrate that is cellulose-based and an ink-receiving layer on the base paper substrate. The ink-receiving layer, for example, includes a metal salt, inorganic particulates, a polymeric binder, and an emulsifier including a hydroxylated saturated hydrocarbon block including from 6 to 24 carbon atoms and a hydroxyl group and further includes a polyalkylene oxide block including form 10 to 35 polyalkylene oxide units selected from polyethylene oxide, polypropylene oxide, or a combination thereof.

A printable fabric medium can include a fabric substrate and a polymeric particle blend including polysiloxane particles and polyolefin release particles pre-treated on the fabric substrate. A weight ratio of the polysiloxane particles to polyolefin release particles can be from 1:5 to 4:1, for example.

An aqueous composition can be used for pre-treating a substrate prior to inkjet printing to provide a white opaque background for inkjet-printed images. This aqueous composition includes: (a) one or more water-soluble salts of a multivalent metal cation at 5-30 weight %; (b) a nonionic or cationic water-soluble or water-dispersible polymeric binder material at 5-30 weight %; and (c) surface-treated visible light-scattering particles having a D.sub.50 (median) particle size of at least 0.04 μm and up to and including 2 μm in an amount of 5-60 weight % based on the total aqueous composition weight. The pre-treated substrate is useful as an inkjet receiving medium that can be readily inkjet-printed particularly with anionically-stabilized aqueous pigment-based inks.

A plurality of plastic sheets to be fed into a high speed printer for forming printed labels and similar articles and a stack of printed labels formed form the sheets. Each of the sheets or labels includes a core layer and opposed, upper and lower outer skin layers. The upper outer skin layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component, by weight, thereof and is capable of receiving printed indicia thereon. The core layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component, by weight, of the core layer; preferably a high crystallinity polypropylene homopolymer. The lower outer skin layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component by weight therein; the improvement wherein the lower outer skin layer includes a blend of organic and inorganic antiblocking agents or a blend of inorganic antiblocking agents; the blend including less than 10%, by weight, of the lower outer skin layer.

A pre-treatment coating composition includes evaporable liquid vehicle and a pre-treatment coating matrix, including from 30 wt % to 70 wt % multivalent organic salt, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % dispersed polyurethane binder having a weight average molecular weight from 30,000 Mw to 100,000 Mw, from 0.5 wt % to 8 wt % of a high molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol binder, and from 10 wt % to 30 wt % of a low molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol binder. The low molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol binder and the high molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol binder are present in the pre-treatment coating matrix at a 3:1 to 15:1 weight ratio, and weight percentages are based on dry weight of the pre-treatment coating matrix.

Aqueous primer compositions suitable for electrophotographic printing and inkjet printing are frequently incompatible with one another, such that coated substrates for each printing technique need to be stockpiled separately. Aqueous primer compositions containing components to facilitate both electrophotographic printing and inkjet printing and that remain compatible with each other may comprise a polyvalent metal salt dispersed in an aqueous fluid, and an amine-functionalized copolymer dispersed as an emulsion in the aqueous fluid, in which the amine-functionalized copolymer has an amine number of about 10 to about 180 mg KOH/g copolymer and a glass transition temperature of about 0° C. to about 50° C. Suitable amine-functionalized copolymers may be formed by an emulsion polymerization reaction of one or more first ethylenically unsaturated monomers lacking an amine group and one or more second ethylenically unsaturated monomers bearing at least one amine group.

A composition may be provided for use in a method for manufacturing a paper layer printable with an inkjet printer. The paper layer may be used as a decor paper in a laminate panel. At least one side of the paper layer may be coated with an inkjet receiver coating in at least two partial steps. A first layer of a first composition may be applied, and subsequently a second layer of a second composition may be applied. The first and the second compositions may at least include a binder. Each of the first and the second compositions may include a liquid substance being a water-based suspension of at least the binder. A dry matter content of the first composition may be of 8 to 25 percent by weight of the liquid substance, and/or a dry matter content of the second composition may be of 4 to 20 percent by weight of the liquid substance.

The present invention relates to transfer media for transferring a functional active ingredient to a surface of an article by means of heat, to methods for preparing such transfer media and for providing of a surface of an article with a functional active ingredient. The transfer media can be used in various technical fields.