Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Jun Yoshizawa

Kunihiko Nakamura

Shin-ichi Sato

Daiji Okamura

Tomohiro Yamashita

Masanori Jinnou

Kuniaki Fujimoto

Kumiko Mafune

Minako Kawabe

Hideki Takayama

Yoshihide Aikawa

Yoshihisa Takizawa

Satoshi Kudo

Junichi Sakai

Hideki Yamakami

Yukako Tamanuki

Yojiro Kojima

Otome Yamashita

Otome Mori

Ryosuke Nagao

Provided is an ink capable of recording an image that is excellent in ozone resistance, hardly causes blurring or color change even in a high-humidity environment, and is excellent in humidity resistance. The ink includes a coloring material and a lithium ion. The coloring material includes a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a content of the lithium ion in the ink is 3.5 times or more in terms of molar ratio with respect to a content of the compound represented by the general formula (I). 

Ink, ink cartridge and ink jet recording method

An ink set having a cyan ink, a magenta ink and a yellow ink. A combination of a cyan, magenta and yellow dye respectively contained in the cyan, magenta and yellow ink is selected so as to satisfy the condition that optical density retentions of images formed by a cyan ink for evaluation containing the cyan dye, a magenta ink for evaluation containing the magenta dye and a yellow ink for evaluation containing the yellow dye, as determined before and after an ozone resistance test with an integral ozone concentration of 800 ppm&#xb7;hr and before and after a xenon light resistance test with an integral irradiance of 43,800 klx&#xb7;hr, are 70% or more for each of the inks for evaluation and are such that a maximum value of differences of the optical density retentions among the images formed by the respective inks for evaluation is 15 or less.

Ink set, ink cartridge, ink jet recording method, and ink jet recording apparatus

An ink jet ink contains at least a coloring material and a specific water-soluble organic solvent and has both excellent color developability and excellent humidity resistance. The coloring material exhibits a small (9 or less) color difference &#x394;E value which is determined by a method including a series of specific steps and is represented as the square root of (L&#x2212;L)+(a&#x2212;a)+(b&#x2212;b). The specific water-soluble organic solvent has an evaporation rate X smaller than that of water and a moisture absorptivity Y, the values of X and Y satisfying the relation of Y&#x2266;2.8X+10. The content of the specific water-soluble organic solvent is 50 mass % or more of the total amount of water-soluble organic solvents contained in the ink.

Ink, ink jet recording method, recording unit, ink cartridge, and ink jet recording apparatus

The present invention provides an ink jet ink having a magenta color which gives an image excellent in magenta color tone and also excellent in image fastness (lightfastness and gas resistance). The ink jet ink includes a first coloring material that is an anthrapyridone compound having a structure represented by general formula (I) and/or general formula (II) and a second coloring material that is an azo compound having a structure represented by general formula (III), wherein the mass ratio of the content of the first coloring material to the content of the second coloring material is from 2.5 or more to 10.0 or less.

Ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit and ink jet recording apparatus

An ink having a cyan color is provided which can form images excellent in ozone resistance in such a high level as to exceed anticipation and having a preferable color tone. The ink includes at least two coloring materials of a first coloring material and a second coloring material, wherein the first coloring material is a compound having a copper phthalocyanine skeleton with a specific structure and the second coloring material is a compound having a copper phthalocyanine skeleton with a specific structure that is different from the first coloring material.

Ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus

An ink containing at least two coloring materials of a first coloring material and a second coloring material, wherein the first coloring material is a compound represented by the general formula (I), and the second coloring material is a compound represented by the general formula (II): 

Ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit and ink jet recording apparatus

Provided is an ink jet ink having a yellow color including at least two coloring materials of a first coloring material and a second coloring material, the first coloring material being a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and the second coloring material being a coloring material having a pH buffering ability. 

Provided is a black ink which provides an image with excellent color tone, little color tone change after a light fastness test and excellent balance of color tone change and light fastness. The black ink further provides an image with a gradation property having a color tone close to a neutral color tone even before and after a light fastness test. The ink contains at least a compound represented by the general formula (I) as a first coloring material, a compound represented by the general formula (II) as a second coloring material and a compound represented by the general formula (III) as a third coloring material 

An ink jet ink is provided with which metallic luster appearing in printing on a recording medium, i.e. the bronze phenomenon is kept from occurring and good images can be obtained. The ink jet ink includes at least a coloring material which is a compound represented by a specific general formula, and further contains a specific amine compound.

Ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus

Provided is an ink jet ink containing a coloring material having a buffer region in an ink use range, the ink jet ink being capable of suppressing the occurrence of the deterioration (dissolution) of a heating portion surface in contact with liquid; and the disconnection of wiring for applying a voltage to a heating portion even when long term continuous printing is performed. The ink jet ink is used for an ink jet recording apparatus equipped with a recording head having a heating portion surface in contact with liquid comprising a metal and/or a metal oxide. The ink jet ink contains a coloring material in a content (mass %) of 3 mass % or more with respect to the total mass of the ink jet ink. The coloring material is a colorant having a buffer region in an ink use range, and comprises a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and/or a compound represented by the following general formula (II) H(OCHCH)R. &#x2003;&#x2003;General formula (II)

Provided is an ink jet ink comprising at least a coloring material comprising a compound represented by the general formula (I) or a salt thereof; and a compound represented by the general formula (II). Thereby, there can be provided an ink jet ink that provides image quality comparable to silver halide photograph and provides a recorded article having high light fastness 

Ink jet ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus

To provide an ink jet black ink which has a favorable tint for ink jet black ink, provides high ozone fastness, a high image density, and high sticking recovery property, and is capable of suppressing the decomposition of a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof at the time of storage for a long time period. The ink jet black ink is an ink jet black ink comprising at least a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof as a coloring material, and ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol, wherein the content of ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol is 15 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the ink jet black ink. General formula (I) 

Ink jet black ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus

An ink jet ink is disclosed which includes water, a water-soluble organic solvent and a coloring material and has excellent properties. The coloring material is a specific phthalocyanine derivative and is contained in a specific amount in the ink. The water-soluble organic solvent includes a specific amount of 2-pyrrolidone. In addition, a dvalue is in a specific range where the dvalue corresponds to 75% of a dispersion distance distribution, measured by a small angle X-ray scattering method, of molecular aggregates in the ink jet ink whose coloring material concentration is adjusted to 0.5 mass %.

To provide an ink jet yellow ink to be used in combination with ink excellent in light resistance and environmental gas resistance with a color fading balance with respect to light and an environmental gas between the inks uniformized. The ink jet yellow ink is an ink jet yellow ink to be used for forming an image together with a cyan ink comprising a compound represented by a general formula (1) or a compound represented by a general formula (2) as a coloring material, the ink jet yellow ink comprising: at least one kind of coloring material selected from the following A group; and at least one kind of coloring material selected from the following B group.

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Tokyo, Japan

Jun Yoshizawa