A method of manufacturing metallic articles from a metal substrate including the steps of: a) jetting an image with a UV curable inkjet ink on at least one surface of the metallic substrate; b) UV curing the image; c) electroplating or acidic etching the at least one metallic surface not covered by the UV cured image; and d) stripping or solubilising the UV cured image by an aqueous alkaline solution; wherein the UV curable inkjet ink has a viscosity of no more than 100 mPa.s at 25°C and at a shear rate of 1,000 s -1; and wherein the UV curable inkjet ink contains: - up to 20 wt% of photoinitiator including at least one of an acyl phosphine oxide photoinitiator and a thioxanthone photoinitiator; and - a polymerizable composition selected from the group consisting of: a polymerizable composition A, wherein at least 80 wt% of the polymerizable composition consists of: a) 15.0 to 70.0 wt% of an acryl amide; b) 20.0 to 75.0 wt% of a polyfunctional acrylate; and c) 1.0 to 15.0 wt% of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate containing a carboxylic acid group; with all weight percentages (wt%) based on the total weight of the polymerizable composition; and a polymerizable composition B containing: a) one or more hydrolyzable polyfunctional monomers or oligomers having at least one alkali hydrolyzable group located in the atomic chain between two polymerizable groups of the polyfunctional monomer or oligomer; and b) one or more water absorption controlling monomers being a monofunctional or difunctional monomer containing at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, an ethylene oxide or oligo-ethylene oxide group, a tertiary amine group, an acidic group having a pK a not lower than 3 and a five to seven membered aromatic or non aromatic heterocyclic group. a) jetting an image with a UV curable inkjet ink on at least one surface of the metallic substrate; b) UV curing the image; c) electroplating or acidic etching the at least one metallic surface not covered by the UV cured image; and d) stripping or solubilising the UV cured image by an aqueous alkaline solution; wherein the UV curable inkjet ink has a viscosity of no more than 100 mPa.s at 25°C and at a shear rate of 1,000 s -1; and - up to 20 wt% of photoinitiator including at least one of an acyl phosphine oxide photoinitiator and a thioxanthone photoinitiator; and - a polymerizable composition selected from the group consisting of: a polymerizable composition A, wherein at least 80 wt% of the polymerizable composition consists of: a) 15.0 to 70.0 wt% of an acryl amide; b) 20.0 to 75.0 wt% of a polyfunctional acrylate; and c) 1.0 to 15.0 wt% of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate containing a carboxylic acid group; with all weight percentages (wt%) based on the total weight of the polymerizable composition; and a polymerizable composition B containing: a) one or more hydrolyzable polyfunctional monomers or oligomers having at least one alkali hydrolyzable group located in the atomic chain between two polymerizable groups of the polyfunctional monomer or oligomer; and b) one or more water absorption controlling monomers being a monofunctional or difunctional monomer containing at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, an ethylene oxide or oligo-ethylene oxide group, a tertiary amine group, an acidic group having a pK a not lower than 3 and a five to seven membered aromatic or non aromatic heterocyclic group. a polymerizable composition A, wherein at least 80 wt% of the polymerizable composition consists of: a) 15.0 to 70.0 wt% of an acryl amide; b) 20.0 to 75.0 wt% of a polyfunctional acrylate; and c) 1.0 to 15.0 wt% of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate containing a carboxylic acid group; with all weight percentages (wt%) based on the total weight of the polymerizable composition; and a) 15.0 to 70.0 wt% of an acryl amide; b) 20.0 to 75.0 wt% of a polyfunctional acrylate; and c) 1.0 to 15.0 wt% of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate containing a carboxylic acid group; a polymerizable composition B containing: a) one or more hydrolyzable polyfunctional monomers or oligomers having at least one alkali hydrolyzable group located in the atomic chain between two polymerizable groups of the polyfunctional monomer or oligomer; and b) one or more water absorption controlling monomers being a monofunctional or difunctional monomer containing at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, an ethylene oxide or oligo-ethylene oxide group, a tertiary amine group, an acidic group having a pK a not lower than 3 and a five to seven membered aromatic or non aromatic heterocyclic group. a) one or more hydrolyzable polyfunctional monomers or oligomers having at least one alkali hydrolyzable group located in the atomic chain between two polymerizable groups of the polyfunctional monomer or oligomer; and b) one or more water absorption controlling monomers being a monofunctional or difunctional monomer containing at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, an ethylene oxide or oligo-ethylene oxide group, a tertiary amine group, an acidic group having a pK a not lower than 3 and a five to seven membered aromatic or non aromatic heterocyclic group.