Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Akimitsu Haijima

Masato Taniguchi

Jun Matsumoto

Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Yoshihiro Fujita

Kiyoshi Morimoto

Nobutaka Ohki

Hiroshi Fujimoto

Shunji Takada

Hirotomo Sasaki

Toshihiro Nishikawa

Mitsuru Yamamoto

Katsuyuki Yofu

Hajime Nakagawa

Takayasu Yamazaki

Masahiko Kondo

Yoichiro Ara

Yoshiaki Kondo

Mio Nishimura

The invention provides an ink composition for inkjet printing, the ink composition containing water, a coloring material, a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator represented by the following Formula (X), and polymer particles having a glass transition temperature of 90&#xb0; C. or higher, a mass ratio of the polymer particles to the polymerization initiator represented by Formula (X) being in a range of from 1:10 to 10:1 [in Formula (X), each of R, R, R, and Rindependently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and n represents an integer from 1 to 4]. 

Ink composition for inkjet printing, ink set, and image forming method

A maintenance liquid for inkjet recording, including: a compound represented by the following Formula (I) and having an HLB value of from 10.5 to 13.8, a water-soluble organic solvent represented by the following Formula (II), a moisturizing agent, and water is disclosed. In the formulae, Rrepresents a straight chain or branched alkyl group having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms, a straight chain or branched alkenyl group having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group; m represents an integer from 3 to 14, each of Rand Rindependently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, provided that Rand Rnever represent a hydrogen atom at the same time; Rrepresents an ethylene group or a propylene group; and x represents an integer from 1 to 4.R&#x2014;O&#x2014;(CHCHO)&#x2014;H&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula (I)ROROR&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula (II)

Maintenance liquid for inkjet recording, ink set for inkjet recording, image forming method, and maintenance method

The invention provides an image forming liquid cartridge including a container having an opening portion from which an image forming liquid is fed or discharged; a cap portion connected to the opening portion; and an image forming liquid contained in the container, the image forming liquid including a colorant, urea and water, and having a pH of 7.5 or more, wherein the cap portion includes a sealing portion that seals the opening portion, a contact portion provided at the center of the sealing portion, and at least one first breakage portion that extends from the contact portion to an outer periphery of the sealing portion, and has a thickness of from 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm, the thickness of the at least one first breakage portion being smaller than a thickness of the sealing portion.

Image forming liquid cartridge and image forming apparatus

The present invention provides a treatment liquid including: at least one acidic compound selected from an organic acidic compound or an inorganic acidic compound; and at least one compound selected from a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound or an organic mercapto compound; wherein the treatment liquid has a pH of from 0.5 to 2.0 at 25&#xb0; C. and the ability to aggregate particles dispersed in an ink composition including at least one colorant and particles of at least one polymer.

Treatment liquid, ink set and image forming method

An electromagnetic shielding film for plasma display which is excellent in electromagnetic shielding characteristics for effectively shielding electromagnetic waves, near infrared rays, stray light, external light, and the like and even when stored under a wet heat condition, is small in change of color tint and good in adhesion, with a blackening layer hardly peeled away, is provided by a transparent electromagnetic shielding film including a transparent support having thereon a conductive metal layer in a pattern-like state having an electromagnetic shielding ability and having a surface covered by a blackening layer, with the blackening layer made of an alloy of nickel and zinc in a nickel/zinc mass ratio of from 0.5 to 50.

Conductive film and manufacturing method thereof, and transparent electromagnetic shielding film

An antifoaming agent composition for a silver halide photographic processing solution, which comprises at least one of the specified (polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene) copolymer as a surface active agent.

Antifoaming agent composition for a silver halide photographic processing solution and process for processing a silver halide photographic material using same

Disclosed are new color developing agents such as those shown below and their analogues:

Color developing agent, processing liquid composition and color image-forming method

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a transparent support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein said red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one compound which releases a development inhibitor having a diffusion parameter of 0.3 or more upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent, and when development processing I and development processing II each defined in the specification are carried out, the gradients of yellow, magenta and cyan obtained by said two kinds of development processing satisfy the following conditions:

Silver halide color photographic material and method for forming image

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion consisting of tabular silver halide grains not containing a cavity extending through two major planes opposing each other and having an average aspect ratio of 1.5 or more, except that 20% or more of the tabular silver halide grains started to be developed containing a cavity extending through the major planes when the silver halide emulsion was developed with a color developer containing a silver halide solvent and a p-phenylenediamine-based color developing agent for 60 sec. A method for forming images includes the step of performing color development for the material for 25 to 90 sec by using a color developing solution containing thiosulfate, methanethiosulfonate, thiocyanate or at least one of the silver halide solvents represented by the formula (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) each defined in the specification.

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and method for

A color light-sensitive material advantageous in that a ratio of .gamma. in a short time processing using a color developer containing a silver halide solvent to .gamma. in a standard time processing using a color developer containing no silver halide solvent is from 0.8 to 1.2 in any case of yellow, magenta and cyan and an image formation method using the same.

Image formation method using a silver halide color photographic material

i) A method of forming color images improved in color reproducibility and sharpness, which comprises providing a silver halide color photographic material which has on a support at least one emulsion layer unit constituted of at least two silver halide emulsion layers having the same color sensitivity and different photographic speeds, and which contains at least one DIR compound represented by the following general formula (II) in at least one layer selected from said emulsion layer unit and other constituent layers; exposing said color photographic material, and processing said color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group containing; R.sub.2 represents an alkylene group containing, or a straight-chain or branched hydroxyalkyiene group containing 3 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.3 represents a substituent group; n represents 0 or an integer from 1 to 4;

Method for forming color images

A dye image-forming method comprising color developing an image wise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing an acylacetamide yellow coupler having an acyl group represented by a following formula (YI) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group; Q represents a group of atoms necessary to form 3- or 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocylcic ring; provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and is not combined with Q to form a ring; with a developing solution containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent represented by formula (D) or (E): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a linear or branched hydroxyalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.5 represents a linear or branched alkylene group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms or a linear or branched hydroxyalkylene group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.6 represents a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a linear or branched alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; ##STR3## wherein R.sub.11 nd R.sub.12 each represents a substituent; n represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 8, and m represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 4.

Method of forming a silver/halide color image using a particular

There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which comprises, in said photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a coupler selected from the group consisting of yellow dye-forming couplers represented by formulas (Y-I) to (Y-III), as defined in claim 1, and a quenching coupler selected from the group consisting of cyan dye-forming couplers or magenta dye-forming couplers represented by formula (C-I), (C-II), (C-III), (M), or (m), as defined in claim 1, or a quenching dye obtained by a coupling reaction of above couplers with the oxidized product of a developing agent represented by formula (A) as defined in claim 2.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akimitsu Haijima