Patent ID: 7575314

Claim:
An ink-jet printing process comprising the steps of: a) providing an ink-receiver; b) providing a surface layer by ink-jet technology on at least a portion of said ink-receiver with a dotsize control fluid wherein the surface layer has a dry thickness between 0.1 and 10 μm; c) jetting at least one radiation curable ink-jet ink droplet to said surface layer on said ink-receiver; wherein said dotsize control fluid comprises a surfactant, a film forming polymeric resin and an inorganic filler, wherein the ratio P/F is greater than 3.0, with P being the weight % of film forming polymeric resin and F being the weight % of inorganic filler, both based on the total weight of the dotsize control fluid, and said surfactant is present in said surface layer in the range of 0.1 to 20% by weight based on the total dry weight of the surface layer and wherein the polymeric resin content in the dotsize control fluid is between 1 and 13 wt % based on the total weight of the dotsize control fluid.