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LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC	740 WEST NEW CIRCLE ROAD LEXINGTON KY 40550

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• 1603:PHOTOCOPYING APPARATUS AND ENLARGERS

• 2020 Application Filing Year
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Carpenter, Brian Scott	Lexington, US	58	232
# of filed Patents : 58 Total Citations : 232
Cavill, Gregory Alan	Winchester, US	50	305
# of filed Patents : 50 Total Citations : 305
Siekmann, Jay Scott	Nicholasville, US	15	26
# of filed Patents : 15 Total Citations : 26

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Full Text

US Patent No: 7438973

Thermal transfer assembly for ceramic imaging

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A thermal transfer assembly that comprises a thermal transfer ribbon and a covercoated transfer sheet. The thermal transfer ribbon includes a support and a ceramic ink layer. The ceramic ink layer is present at a coating weight of from about 2 to about 15 grams per square meter, and it includes from about 15 to about 94.5 percent of a solid carbonaceous binder, and at least one of a film-forming glass frit, an opacifying agent and a colorant (at a combined level for the film forming glass frit, the opacifying agent and the colorant of at least 0.5 weight percent).

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