Durability of ink jet prints

Light Fastness of Ink Jet Prints on Modified Conventional Coatings

Water Fastness of Ink Jet Prints on Modified Conventional Coatings

This paper was selected as the 2005 IS&T Itek Award for outstanding original student publication in the field of imaging science and engineering (full version published in JIST 48 #2). In order to produce color ink jet prints with good fastness properties, the use of special, coated papers is generally essential. This study examined the water fastness of ink jet prints using experimental coated...

Evaluating the Effect of Reactive Dye’s Structure and Penetrant Type on the Fastness of Ink-Jet Prints

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the reactive dye structure and type of penetrant in ink formulation on paper ink-jet printing. Different type of papers, which have same grammage was printed upon with three commercial reactive dyes, CI Reactive Blue 49 Ink 1, 4, CI Reactive Blue 21 Ink 2, Ink 5 and CI Reactive Blue 19 Ink 3, Ink 6, which are based on different reactive...

Doubling the Color Gamut Volume of Ink Jet Prints using a Simple Post-Processing

We describe a novel coating process for preserving and enhancing color images from ink jet prints. It involves stabilizing the printed image, followed by selective chemical interaction with the inks. The coating provides liquid, gas and UV light protection. It also changes the way light interacts with the original colorants. Untrained viewers (e.g. ordinary consumers) report the coated images a...

Doubling the Color Gamut Volume of Ink Jet Prints using Simple Post-Processing

We describe a novel coating process for preserving and enhancing color images from ink jet prints. It involves stabilizing the printed image, followed by selective chemical interaction with the inks. The coating provides liquid, gas and UV light protection. It also changes the way light interacts with the original colorants. Untrained viewers (e.g. ordinary consumers) report the coated images a...