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A receptor medium with a sheet having an optically transmissive microembossed imaging surface as one major surface thereof. The receptor medium can receive jettable materials, which include inks, adhesives, biological fluids, chemical assay reagents, particulate dispersions, waxes, and combinations

A receptor medium with a sheet having an optically transmissive microembossed imaging surface as one major surface thereof. The receptor medium can receive jettable materials, which include inks, adhesives, biological fluids, chemical assay reagents, particulate dispersions, waxes, and combinations thereof. The microembossed medium unexpectedly solves such common inkjet printing problems as feathering, banding, and mudcracking in inkjet printing systems by controlling how an inkjet drop contacts and dries on an inkjet receptor medium and also Moire' effects but also provides sufficient optical transmissivity to be useful as overhead transparency media, backlit signage, and the like. Clear lines of demarcation between adjoining colors of a pigmented inkjet image graphic can be obtained without creation of the Moire' effects. Methods of making and using the inkjet receptor medium are also disclosed.

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A receptor medium with a sheet having an optically transmissive microembossed imaging surface as one major surface thereof. The receptor medium can receive jettable materials, which include inks, adhesives, biological fluids, chemical assay reagents, particulate dispersions, waxes, and combinations

A receptor medium with a sheet having an optically transmissive microembossed imaging surface as one major surface thereof. The receptor medium can receive jettable materials, which include inks, adhesives, biological fluids, chemical assay reagents, particulate dispersions, waxes, and combinations thereof. The microembossed medium unexpectedly solves such common inkjet printing problems as feathering, banding, and mudcracking in inkjet printing systems by controlling how an inkjet drop contacts and dries on an inkjet receptor medium and also Moire' effects but also provides sufficient optical transmissivity to be useful as overhead transparency media, backlit signage, and the like. Clear lines of demarcation between adjoining colors of a pigmented inkjet image graphic can be obtained without creation of the Moire' effects. Methods of making and using the inkjet receptor medium are also disclosed. igmented ink. 18. The inkjet printing medium of claim 15, wherein the jettable material is a dye-based ink. 19. The inkjet printing medium of claim 15, wherein the jettable material is a pigmented inkjet ink. 20. The inkjet printing medium of claim 14, wherein the deposited material is deposited by means other than inkjet. 21. The inkjet printing medium of claim 19, wherein the pigmented ink comprises particles of pigment that reside in cavities of the microembossed surface. 22. An inkjet printing medium comprising a polymeric sheet having an optically transparent microembossed surface topography comprising cavities as one major surface thereof, wherein the microembossed polymeric sheet is nonporous and the cavities each have a volume of from about 1100 pL to about 5000 pL, the calculated percent non-planar area of the surface topography is 10 percent or less, and the microembossed polymeric sheet having a Gardner Haze ranging from about 0 to about 20 and a jettable pigmented inkjet ink deposited on the microembossed surface wherein the pigmented ink comprises particles of pigment that reside in the cavities of the microembossed surface.