A system for applying a coating composition to a substrate utilizing a high transfer efficiency applicator is provided herein. The system includes a storage device for storing instructions for performing a matching protocol, and one or more data processors configured to execute the instructions to, receive, by one or more data processors, target image data of a target coating, the target image data generated by an electronic imaging device, and apply the target image data to a matching protocol to generate application instructions. The system further includes a high transfer efficiency applicator defining a nozzle orifice. The high transfer efficiency applicator is configured to expel the coating composition through the nozzle orifice to the substrate to form a coating layer. The high transfer efficiency applicator is configured expel the coating composition based on the application instructions.

There is provided a resin-impregnated decorative paper (2) formed by impregnating a decorative paper (4) with an impregnating resin (5). The decorative paper (4) includes: a base paper (6); a picture pattern layer (7) provided on a surface (6a) side of the base paper (6); a filling layer (8) provided on a surface (7a) of the picture pattern layer (7); and a foamed resin layer (9) provided on a surface (8a) of the filling layer (8). The filling layer (8) contains at least one of an epoxy-based resin, an acrylic-based resin, a urethane-based resin, and a casein-based resin.

The present invention relates to inkjet printable twist and/or fold wrap film for packaging applications, to inkjet printed twist and/or fold wrap film for packaging applications, to packaging including said inkjet printable or inkjet printed twist and/or fold wrap film, the use of the inkjet printable or inkjet printed twist and/or fold wrap film for as well as to the method of making a filled packaging.

A print control apparatus is configured to transfer transparent protective ink onto an image printed on a substrate. The print control apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a contour of a subject in the image, and a control unit configured to generate print data for transferring the protective ink using a printing apparatus, based on the extracted contour of the subject. The control unit generates the print data by assigning a high gradation value to a contour line corresponding to the extracted contour of the subject, assigning a low gradation value to a region corresponding to the subject, and assigning a mixture of the high gradation value and the low gradation value to an outer peripheral region of the subject.

A security paper for manufacturing value documents has a planar substrate equipped on one surface with an anti-forgery means based on a carrier foil having an optically variable security feature. The anti-forgery means and a partial substrate area surrounding the anti-forgery means is furnished with a dirt-repellent radiation-curing first lacquer substantially not influencing the perceptibility of the optically variable security feature. The layer thickness of the lacquer lying is in a range of 0.7 to 2 micrometers. The radiation-curing first lacquer is may be a UV-cross-linking lacquer which after cross-linking is high-gloss. The substrate can be furnished on its surface lying outside the anti-forgery means with a dirt-repellent second lacquer and optionally partly overlaps the first lacquer in the region of the partial substrate area surrounding the anti-forgery means. The second lacquer involves either a physically drying, water-based dispersion lacquer, or a UV-cross-linking lacquer, and has a matt impression.

A system for applying a coating composition is provided herein. The system includes a first high transfer efficiency applicator defining a first nozzle orifice and a second high transfer efficiency applicator defining a second nozzle orifice. The system further includes a reservoir. The system further includes a substrate defining a first target area and a second target area. The first high transfer efficiency applicator and the second high transfer efficiency applicator are configured to receive the coating composition from the reservoir and configured to expel the coating composition through the first nozzle orifice to the first target area of the substrate and to expel the coating composition through the second nozzle orifice to the second target area of the substrate.

A printing device and a printing method, which are by ink-jet technique an overcoat layer using an ink consisting of more suitable ingredients, are provided. The printing device is for performing printing by ink-jet technique, including: a color ink head being an inkjet head that forms a color ink layer on a medium using a color ink; an overcoat head being an inkjet head that forms an overcoat layer that covers the color ink layer; and a curing agent head being an inkjet head that discharges ink droplets of a curing agent, the curing agent being a liquid for curing an ink in the overcoat layer. The overcoat head discharges ink droplets of an ink prepared by dispersing in an organic solvent a curable material that is cured in reaction to the curing agent.

A method for producing scratch-off lottery tickets in a high speed printing line is provided, wherein the printing line includes one or more inkjet printing machines that print lottery tickets on a continuously running paper stock. One or more primer layers are applied to a surface of the paper stock in a defined game play area on each lottery ticket. With the inkjet printing machines game play indicia is printed over the primer layers in the game play area on each lottery ticket at a resolution of at least 600 dpi. The running paper stock is conveyed through the inkjet printing machines at a rate of at least 950 ft./min. The ink jet printing machines use a specially formulated dye-based ink.

An overcoating liquid contains a hydrodispersible polyurethane; a compound represented by Chemical formula 1: C.sub.6F.sub.13—CH.sub.2CH.sub.2O(CH.sub.2CH.sub.2O).sub.nH, where n represents an integer of from 1 to 40; a compound represented by Chemical formula 2: HOR.sub.1R.sub.3C—(CH.sub.2).sub.n—CR.sub.2R.sub.4OH, where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each, independently represent alkyl groups having three to six carbon atoms, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each, independently represent methyl groups or ethyl groups, and n represents an integer of from 1 to 6; and water, wherein the overcoating liquid is applied to the surface of a recording medium onto which inkjet ink is already discharged.

A post-printing treatment for printed media includes a wax suspended in water. Particles of the wax to lie upon at least an inkjet ink image on the printed media to facilitate abrasion resistance of the image.