	US 12,297,360 B2
	Performance of LED-curable digital ink
Pramod Sharma, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Shawn Roberts, South Euclid, OH (US); James Deininger, Highland Heights, OH (US); and Michelle Pearce, Chardon, OH (US)
Assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC, Mentor, OH (US)
Appl. No. 17/995,593
Filed by Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC, Mentor, OH (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/026516 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 6, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/207568, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/007,513, filed on Apr. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0151233 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. C09D 11/101 (2014.01); C09D 133/08 (2006.01); D06P 1/52 (2006.01); D06P 5/20 (2006.01)

CPC C09D 11/101 (2013.01) [C09D 133/08 (2013.01); D06P 1/5257 (2013.01); D06P 5/2005 (2013.01)]

19 Claims

1. A formulation for printing to a substrate, consisting essentially of:

a combination of monomers, the combination consists of:

at least one mono-acrylated monomer,

at least one di-acrylated monomer,

at least one tri-acrylated monomer, and

at least one polyalkoxylated acrylate monomer;

at least one photoinitiator;

at least one pigment dispersion;

at least one leveling agent; and

at least one inhibitor;

wherein a weight ratio of the di-acrylated monomer to the mono-acrylated monomer is from about 3.3 to about 6.0;

wherein a weight ratio of the di-acrylated monomer to the tri-acrylated monomer is from about 4.5 to about 8.0; and

wherein the formulation is an LED-curable digital ink.