of nonabsorbent or semi nonabsorbent substrates include without limitation high gloss paper satin paper coated papers or paperboard plastic e g polyethylene polypropylene or polyester which may be supplied as webs rolls or sheets plastic and metal packaging materials vinyl sheets panels polystyrene sheets steel aluminum wood and other substrates the ink receptive coating includes a microporous material and a coating vehicle that are receptive to the energy curable ink examples of absorbent microporous materials include without limitation highly porous silica porous inorganic oxides particularly silica gels such as silica hydrogels aerogels xerogels cogels and other inorganic oxides such as alumina silica alumina and titania in general inorganic oxides having pore volumes of 0 6 cc g or more are preferred particularly those having pore volumes of 0 6 to 3 00 cc g are suitable also in general the average particle size should be in the range of 1 to 20 microns preferably about 3 to about 12 microns particularly preferably about 5 to about 8 microns examples of coating vehicles that may be used include polymers or resin such as without limitation water soluble or dispersible film forming polymers and or latex polymers such as poly vinyl alcohol poly vinyl acetate copolymers of vinyl acetate hydroxyethyl cellulose methyl cellulose carboxy methyl cellulose starch gum arabic polyethylene glycol poly vinyl pyrrolidone polyacrylamide polypropylene glycol polyketone resins and combinations of.