UV-LED curable clear ink composition for ink jet printing
An UV-LED curable clear ink composition for ink jet printing including 44 to 80% by mass of a photo-polymerizable mono-functional monomer, 15 to 50% by mass of a photo-polymerizable poly-functional monomer and 5 to 15% by mass of an acylphosphine photo-polymerization initiator, and having a viscosity at 25° C. of 1 to 50 mPa·s, wherein the photo-polymerizable mono-functional monomer and the photo-polymerizable poly-functional monomer include a photo-polymerizable monomer having at least one of functional groups including an amide group and an amino group, and the photo-polymerizable monomer is contained in an amount of 5 to 20% by mass based on a total amount of photo-polymerizable mono-functional monomer and photo-polymerizable poly-functional monomer.
1. An UV-LED curable clear ink composition for ink jet printing comprising:
50 to 80% by mass of a photo-polymerizable mono-functional monomer, wherein the photo-polymerizable mono-functional monomer includes an alicyclic mono-functional monomer, wherein the alicyclic mono-functional monomer is at least one selected from the group consisting of isobornyl (meth)acrylate, t-4-butylcyclohexyl (meth)acrylate and dicyclopentenyl (meth)acrylate,
15 to 35% by mass of a photo-polymerizable poly-functional monomer, and
5 to 15% by mass of an acylphosphine photo-polymerization initiator, and
having a viscosity at 25 degree C. of 1 to 50 mPas using an E-type viscometer at a rotor speed of 50 rpm, wherein the photo-polymerizable poly-functional monomer comprises a photo-polymerizable monomer having at least one of functional groups including an amide group and an amino group, and the photo-polymerizable monomer is contained in an amount of 5 to 20% by mass based on a total amount of photo-polymerizable mono-functional monomer and photo-polymerizable poly-functional monomer, wherein the photo-polymerizable monomer having at least one of the functional groups including an amide group and an amino group comprises an acrylated amine compound having two photo-polymerizable functional groups and two amino groups in a molecule thereof.