Kao Corporation

Hideki Yanagi

Masayoshi Nawa

Koichi Nakamura

Kouichi Sakai

Harumasa Yamasaki

Shigemi Wakabayashi

Masafumi Miyamoto

Takashi Matsuse

Kenji Kaida

Satoshi Yoshida

Hiroyuki Mitobe

Tadashi Nakamura

An aqueous pigment ink is provided made of a pigment, a dispersant, water, and a water-soluble solvent, wherein the dispersant contains a copolymer of a monomer (a) represented by formula (A), and one or more monomers (b) selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (B) and (C): ##STR1## Wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, AO, m.sub.1, m.sub.2, n, M.sub.1, M.sub.2 and Y are as defined herein that gives improved jettability, storage stability and printing characteristics.

Aqueous ink of pigment type

An aqueous ink for ink jet recording comprises a dye and a polymeric compound which can undergo a decarboxylation reaction. In an ink jet recording method, a recording operation is carried out by jetting a liquid droplet of the ink from a nozzle to a recording medium by using thermal energy.

Aqueous inks for ink jet recording

Disclosed is a thermal transfer recording medium comprising a substrate provided thereon at least an ink layer which is to be transferred by heat application, characterized in that the loss tangent (tan .delta.) of the ink layer in viscoelasticity measurement at a temperature of from 60.degree. to 100.degree. C. ranges from 0.4 to 2.5.

Thermal transfer recording medium

Disclosed is a recording material employing an electron donating colorless dye and an electron accepting compound, an improvement being present in that said electron accepting compound is a compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar represents a phenyl group, a substituted phenyl group, a benzyl group, a substituted benzyl group, a naphthyl group or a substituted naphthyl group.

Recording material

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