Patent ID: 6352805
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: B41M,G03C,G03G,Y10S

Abstract:
An imaged element having a water-resistant protective overcoat thereon, comprising the following:(a) a support and at least one image-receiving layer carrying a dye or pigment-based pictorial image; and (b) overlying the at least one image-receiving layer, a protective overcoat having a laydown of at least 0.54 g/m2 (50 mg/ft2) of a crosslinked coating composition comprising the reaction product of the following components: a) water-dispersible latex particles comprising a film-forming hydrophobic polymer which particles have an average particle size of from 10 to 250 nm; b) a photopolymerizable component system comprising 20 to 300 weight percent, with respect to the hydrophobic polymer, of copolymerizable compatible monomers, at least one of which monomers is a multifunctional monomer having more than one polymerizable ethylenic unsaturation, and 1 to 25 weight percent, with respect to the photopolymerizable component system, of an ultraviolet light-sensitive initiator; wherein the Tg of the coated composition comprising the latex particles and the photopolymerizable component system prior to crosslinking is âˆ’60 to 60Â° C.