We made ink receiving emulsion with nano-porosity alumina sol and used modified watersoluble polymer and hydrophilic polymer as a binder. The modified watersoluble polymer was of polyvinylalcohol, hydroxypropylmethylcelluose and the hydrophilic polymer was of polyacrylurea, polyacrylstyrene, polyacrylamide, all added by cation surfactant. With the ink receiving emulsion, we differenciated the thickness of coating in a range of 15∼40 μm on the resin coated papers and dry up all of the coating samples. After drying, we printed all the samples on the inkjet color printer and examine the cross section of the imageprinted area with microscope to observe how much color image quality such as resolving power, bleeding and physical properties such as lightstability, waterstability, waterfastness, glossiness would be affected by the absorption of ink on every different thickness of coating samples.
Tai Sung Kang, Sang Hun Kim, Hyung Woong Ryu, Hee Yong Son, Seog Jung Lee, "Relation Between the Thickness of Ink Receiving Layer and Color Image Quality, Physical Properties" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP21), 2005, pp 471 - 474, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2005.21.1.art00037_2