Patent ID: 8702221

Claim:
A curable solid ink comprising a curable wax; one or more monomers; a gellant oligomer mixture composition, a photoinitiator, and an optional colorant, wherein gellant oligomer mixture composition comprises a blend of oligomers of an ester-terminated polyamide gellant of the formula: wherein n is 1 to 12, and wherein R 1 and R 1 ′ each, independently of the other, are aromatic groups selected from the group consisting of: wherein the blend of a oligomers is selected from two or more of the group consisting of a unimer, a dimer, a trimer, a tetramer, a pentamer, a hexamer, a heptamer, a octamer, a nonamer, a decamer, a undecamer, and a dodecamer and further wherein the gellant oligomer mixture composition is present in the curable solid ink in an amount of from about 1 to about 30% by weight of the total weight of the curable solid ink.