Ink compositions
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1. A nonaqueous ink composition comprised of a vehicle, colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component, and wherein said hydrophobic gelling component is of the formula ##STR2## wherein R is alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, hydrogen, halide, or hydrocarbon halide.
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A nonaqueous ink composition comprised of a vehicle, colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component.
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- 1. A nonaqueous ink composition comprised of a vehicle, colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component, and wherein said hydrophobic gelling component is of the formula ##STR2## wherein R is alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, hydrogen, halide, or hydrocarbon halide.
- 7. An ink composition comprised of a vehicle, colorant, and an aklylarylcycloalkanol gelling component.
- 20. A printing process which comprises incorporating into an acoustic ink jet printer an ink comprised of a vehicle, colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component, and wherein said hydrophobic gelling component is of the formula ##STR3## wherein R is alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, hydrogen, halide, or hydrocarbon halide.
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22. A process which comprises (a) providing an acoustic ink printer having a pool of liquid ink with a free surface, and a printhead including at least one droplet ejector for radiating the free surface of said ink with focused acoustic radiation to eject individual droplets of ink therefrom on demand, said radiation being brought to focus with a finite waist diameter in a focal plane, said ink comprising a vehicle, colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component and (b) causing droplets of said ink to be ejected onto a recording sheet in an imagewise pattern at a temperature of from about 50°
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C., and wherein said hydrophobic gelling component is of the formula ##STR4## wherein R is alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, hydrogen, halide, or hydrocarbon halide. - View Dependent Claims (23)
- C. to about 125°
- 24. An ink composition comprised of a colorant, a component of the following formula, and an ink vehicle ##STR5## wherein R is alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, hydrogen, halide, or hydrocarbon halide.
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26. An ink comprised of a vehicle, a colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component of the formula ##STR6## wherein R is a halide.
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27. An ink comprised of a vehicle, a colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component of the formula ##STR7## wherein R is a alkyl or alkoxy.
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28. An ink comprised of a vehicle, a colorant, and a hydrophobic gelling component of the formula ##STR8## wherein R is aryl.
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