A composition for allowing marking of a product, the composition comprising: (a) a volatile solvent; (b) a silicone resin comprising a trifunctional unit of formula (R)SiO.sub.3/2, wherein R is chosen, independently by trifunctional unit, from hydrocarbyl groups and hydroxyl groups, on the condition that at least one R is a hydrocarbyl group; and, (c) titanium dioxide particles having an average size of between approximately 100 nanometers and 1000 nanometers.

A cellulosic substrate-based device is described, including a cellulosic substrate comprising a functionalized surface covalently functionalized by a chemical moiety in an amount sufficient to provide an omniphobic or hydrophobic surface; and a material printed on the functionalized surface, wherein the printed material has a line edge roughness of less than about 15 m and/or a line lateral resolution of less than about 50 m.

In a thermal transfer sheet in which a transfer layer is provided on a substrate, the transfer layer has a layered structure in which a receiving layer, an intermediate layer, and a masking layer are layered in this order from the side of the substrate, the receiving layer is a solvent-based receiving layer containing a solvent-based resin and a silicone oil, the intermediate layer is a water-based intermediate layer containing a water-based resin, and the masking layer is a solvent-based masking layer containing a solvent-based resin and a colorant.

The present invention is generally directed to treated silica particulates for use in ink-jet media coatings, comprising silica particulates being surface-activated by a surface activating agent; the surface active agent including an aluminum chloride hydrate, and where the silica particulates are also reagent-modified by an organosilane reagent; the organosilane reagent including an amine-containing silane.

A recording medium includes in this order a water-resistant substrate, a first ink receiving layer, and a second ink receiving layer that is the outermost layer. The first ink receiving layer contains a fumed silica and a binder. The second ink receiving layer contains a colloidal silica having an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and a polyvinyl alcohol having a silanol group.

The present invention provides a thermal transfer sheet which can provide a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet capable of forming a printed product of high designability, provides a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet capable of forming a printed product of high designability and a method for forming a printed product, and provides a printed product of high designability.

In a thermal transfer sheet 100 in which a transfer layer 10 is provided on a substrate 1, the transfer layer 10 has a layered structure in which a receiving layer 2, an intermediate layer 3, and a masking layer 4 are layered in this order from the side of the substrate 1, and the intermediate layer 3 contains inorganic particles.

A method for manufacturing a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet support that can be used to obtain a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet that maintains its gloss and that has excellent handleability and high condition uniformity while preventing the formation of air bubbles in an adhesive layer. A resin is supplied to one side of a substrate, which is passed between a cooling roller A and a rubber roller A. A porous film is stacked on another side of the substrate through a resin, and the substrate is passed between a cooling roller B and a rubber roller B. The cooling rollers A and B have surfaces with a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of 5 to 30 m and 0 to 20 m, respectively. The rubber rollers A and B have a rubber hardness (durometer (Type A)) of 60 to 95 and 50 to 80, respectively.

To provide a recording medium in which the ink absorbability and the color development properties of an image to be obtained are high and in which cracking in an ink receiving layer is sufficiently suppressed.

A recording medium contains a base material and an ink receiving layer containing inorganic particles and a binder, in which the inorganic particles have an organosilicon structure having a quaternary ammonium group, an imino group or a substituted imino group, and a hydroxyl group.

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.

A fabric print medium includes a fabric base substrate and two treatment compositions that are applied thereon. The first treatment composition includes, at least, film-forming polymeric compounds, and a water-soluble high-valence metal complex. The second treatment composition includes, at least, a polymeric network, poly-alkene polymeric compounds, a water-soluble high-valence metal complex and a flame retardant agent. Also disclosed herein is a method for obtaining the fabric print medium.