Ink composition containing a blend of a polyester and an acrylic polymer

Claim 1

A printed substrate comprising an ink composition printed onto a substrate selected from metal foil, newsprint, bleached and unbleached kraft paper, clay coated paper, glass, calendered paper, stainless paper, paper board, and films or other substrates of polyester, polycarbonate, cellulose ester, regenerated cellulose, poly(vinylidene chloride), polyamide, polypropylene, polyethylene or polystyrene, wherein said ink composition comprises: (I) about 5 to 40 weight percent of a polymer blend, comprising (A) a linear water-dissipatable polymer having carbonyloxy linking groups in the linear molecular structure wherein up to 80% of the linking groups are carbonylamido linking groups, the polymer having an inherent viscosity of from about 0.1 to about 1.0 measured in a 60/40 parts by weight solution of phenol/tetrachloroethane at 25° C. and at a concentration of 0.25 gram of polymer in 100 mL of the solvent, the polymer containing substantially equimolar proportions of acid equivalents (100 mole %) to hydroxy and amino equivalents (100 mole %), the polymer comprising the reaction products of reactants selected from (1), (2), (3), and (4), or the ester forming or esteramide forming derivatives thereof, as follows, wherein all stated mole percentages are based on the total of all acid, hydroxyl and amino equivalents being equal to 200 mole %: (1) at least one difunctional dicarboxylic acid; (2) from about 4 to about 25 mole % of at least one difunctional sulfomonomer containing at least one metallic sulfonate group or nitrogen-containing non-metallic sulfonate group attached to an aromatic or cycloaliphatic nucleus wherein the functional groups are hydroxy, carboxyl or amino; (3) at least one difunctional reactant selected from a glycol or a mixture of a glycol and diamine having two --NRH groups, the glycol containing two --CH 2 --OH groups of which (a) at least 15 mole % is a poly(ethylene glycol) having the structural formula H--OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --.sub.n OH, n being an integer of from 2 to about 20, or (b) of which from about 0.1 to less than about 15 mole % is a poly(ethylene glycol) having the structural formula H--OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --.sub.n OH, n being an integer of between 2 and about 500, and with the proviso that the mole % of said poly(ethylene glycol) within said range is inversely proportional to the quantity of n within said range; (4) from none to about 40 mole % of difunctional reactant selected from hydroxycarboxylic acids having one --C(R) 2 --OH group, aminocarboxylic acids having one --NRH group, and amino-alcohols having one --C(R) 2 --OH group and one --NRH group, or mixtures of said difunctional reactants; and wherein each R in the (3) and (4) reactants is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbons; and (B) an acrylic polymer in an amount effective to increase the block resistance or water resistance properties of Component (A), when formulated into an ink composition, said acrylic polymer being compatible with the water-dissipatable polyester at an acrylic polymer concentration of 30 weight percent of the total acrylic/polyester polymer solids, which will not gel or have a significant increase in viscosity after being held at 120° F. for 24 hours or at room temperature for 14 days, (II) about 0 to 45 weight percent of at least one colorant, and (III) about 35 to 95 weight percent of water.