Seiko Epson Corporation

Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Ohta

Hidehiko Komatsu

Kazuhiko Kitamura

Masahiro Yatake

Tetsuya Aoyama

Kazuhiko Hara

Kunihiko Matsuhashi

Hiroko Hayashi

Hiroto Nakamura

Takeshi Yano

Kazuaki Tsukiana

Kiyohiko Takemoto

Takayoshi Kagata

Hiroshi Ito

Jun Ito

Hiroshi Mukai

Mitsuaki Kosaka

Makoto Matsuzaki

Akiko Matsuzaki

Makoto Taniguchi

Ikuo Hayashi

Nagatoshi Kasahara

Tadashi Kato

Keiichi Noto

Fumitsugu Ito

Yasuhiro Fujita

Yoshimasa Tamura

A printing method is provided. The printing method includes applying a treatment liquid containing a flocculant operable to flocculate at least one constituent of an ink composition onto a printing medium, and applying at least one ink composition including a white ink composition containing a white coloring material and resin particles onto the printing medium. The volume average particle size of the resin particles varies 50% or less when the white ink composition is mixed with the treatment liquid.

Printing method and white ink composition

An ink jet recording method includes attaching ink by ejecting an ink composition from a head to attach to a recording region of a recording medium, and drying by heating the recording medium to which the ink composition is attached, in which the ink composition is a water-based ink composition including a resin and an amide compound represented by General Formula (1) as an organic solvent, and the drying dries the organic solvent in the recording region of the recording medium to be 2.0 mg/inchor less. In Formula (1), Rrepresents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; Rand Rrepresent each independently H or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

Recording method and ink jet recording apparatus

A recording method uses an ink composition containing a colorant, resin particles, an organic solvent and water, and an aggregating liquid containing a coagulant for aggregating components of the ink composition. The method includes adhering the aggregating liquid to a recording region of a recording medium; adhering the ink composition to the recording region by ejecting the ink composition from a recording head; and drying the recording region to which the aggregating liquid and the ink composition are adhered such that an amount of the organic solvent in the recording region is 2.0 mg/inchor less to obtain a recorded material.

Recording method and recording apparatus

An ink jet recording method includes attaching a treating liquid, in which a content of a nitrogen-containing solvent is greater than that of an ink composition, to a recording medium having low or non-absorbability in which a step of surface unevenness is equal to or greater than 10 &#x3bc;m, and attaching the ink composition containing the nitrogen-containing solvent by discharging the ink composition from an ink jet head to the recording medium to which the treating liquid is attached.

Ink jet recording method and method of controlling ink jet recording apparatus

An ink jet recording method includes: forming a first image layer by ejecting a first ink composition that contains resin particles, an organic solvent, and water on a recording medium by an ink jet method; first drying in which 80% by mass or more of water contained in the first ink composition of the first image layer is evaporated; and forming a second image layer by ejecting a second ink composition that contains water, and an organic solvent by which the resin particles contained in the first ink composition dissolve or swell on the first image layer subjected to the first drying by the ink jet method, in which the content of an organic solvent having a normal boiling point of higher than 250&#xb0; C. in the first ink composition and the second ink composition is 2% by mass or less, respectively.

Ink jet recording method, ink jet ink composition, and ink set

An ink jet recording method includes recording an image by discharging an ink composition which contains water and a coloring material on a recording surface of a recording medium having low absorbency or non-absorbency to ink, and forming a protective layer, which contains first resin particles where a glass transition temperature is 50&#xb0; C. or higher and second resin particles where a glass transition temperature is less than 50&#xb0; C. and which substantially does not contain a coloring material, on the image.

Ink jet recording method, ink jet recording apparatus, and recorded matter

An ink jet recording method includes forming a first ink layer by ejecting a first ink composition including water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a solid content including at least a coloring material on a recording medium; a first drying step of evaporating 80% by mass or more of water from the first ink composition in the first ink layer; forming a second ink layer by ejecting a second ink composition including water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a solid content including at least a coloring material on the first ink layer; and a second drying step of evaporating a volatile component of the recording medium after forming the second ink layer, in which, assuming r1 is 'water-soluble organic solvent content/solid content' of the first ink composition and r2 is 'water-soluble organic solvent content/solid content' of the second ink composition&#x201d;, &#x201c;r2/r1&#x201d; is 2 or less.

Ink set and recording method

An ink jetting ink set includes an ink composition for recording supplied to and used in an ink flow path and containing at least one of a glitter pigment and a metal oxide as a coloring material, and an auxiliary ink composition used in cleaning of the ink flow path, in which, in cases where a dynamic viscosity at 20&#xb0; C. in the ink composition for recording is &#x3b7;(mm/s) and a surface tension at 20&#xb0; C. is &#x3b3;(mN/m), and the dynamic viscosity at 20&#xb0; C. in the auxiliary ink composition is &#x3b7;(mm/s) and the surface tension at 20&#xb0; C. is &#x3b3;(mN/m), the following formula (1) and the following formula (2) are satisfied at the same time.&#x3b7;&#x2266;&#x3b7;&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)&#x3b3;&#x2267;&#x3b3;&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)

Ink jet recording method

An ink jet recording method includes layer forming which includes image recording which records an image by discharging an ink composition which contains water and coloring materials on a recording surface of a recording medium having low absorbency or non-absorbency to ink, and protective layer forming which forms a protective layer on the image by discharging a clear ink composition which contains resin particles and substantially does not contain a coloring material; and heating and drying which includes first heating which heats the recording surface at a glass transition temperature or more of the resin particles after the layer forming, and first drying which performs ventilation while heating the recording surface at a heating temperature or less of the recording surface in the first heating after the first heating, in which the drying time in the first drying is two times or more the heating time in the first heating.

Ink jetting ink set and cleaning method

An ink jet printing method includes forming an image by discharging droplets of an aqueous ink composition onto a non-ink-absorbing or low ink-absorbing recording medium by ink jet printing, and drying the aqueous ink composition on the recording medium during and/or after forming the image, wherein the aqueous ink composition contains a water-insoluble colorant, resin particles, a silicone surfactant, an acetylene glycol surfactant, a pyrrolidone derivative, a 1,2-alkyldiol, a polyhydric alcohol, and water, and the resin particles contain resin fixative particles and wax particles.

Ink jet printing method

A ink composition for ink jet recording in which a non-absorbent or low absorbent recording medium is used includes water; a color material; a surfactant; a compound I represented by general formula (I) below; and does not substantially include alkyl polyols with a standard boiling point of 280&#xb0; C. or higher; in which the surfactant is at least one type selected from a group consisting of a fluorine-based surfactant and a siloxane-based surfactant with 5 or more siloxane units [In general formula (I), n represents an integer of 45 or higher to 230 or lower, each Rindependently represents an unmodified, an ether-modified, a polyester-modified, an epoxy-modified, an amine-modified, a carboxyl-modified, a fluorine-modified, an alkyloxy-modified, a mercapto-modified, a (meth)acryl-modified, a phenol-modified, a phenyl-modified, a carbinol-modified or an aralkyl-modified hydrocarbon group.].

Ink composition and image forming method

A method for manufacturing a record includes an image layer-forming step of forming an image layer by applying ink containing resin and a solvent A to a recording medium, a heating step of heating the image layer to a temperature not lower than the glass transition temperature of the resin, and a solvent-removing step of removing the solvent A from the image layer after the heating step.

Record and method for manufacturing record

An ink jet recording method includes recording a white color-based image by discharging droplets of a white color-based ink composition from nozzles of an ink jet recording head, and then attaching the droplets of the white color-based ink composition on a recording surface of a flexible packing film, recording a color by discharging droplets of a color ink composition from the nozzles, and then attaching the droplets of the color ink composition on the white color-based image, and firstly heating at least the white color-based image and the color image at temperature higher than 40&#xb0; C., in which the white color-based ink composition contains water, a coloring material of a white color base, and a urethane-based resin, but substantially does not contain alkyl polyols having a normal boiling point of 280&#xb0; C. or more, and the color ink composition contains water, and a coloring material of a color system.

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