Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Ken Hashimoto

Yoshiro Yamashita

Toshitake Yui

Takatsugu Doi

Kunichi Yamashita

Eisuke Hiraoka

Atsushi Suzuki

Masaya Ikuno

Nobuyuki Ichizawa

Akihiko Chujo

Yasuharu Endo

Hiroshi Inoue

Fuminori Koide

Hirotaka Matsuoka

Takako Kobayashi

Toshiyuki Yano

Hiromi Nagai

Hitoshi Kojima

Kyoko Horii

Hiroshi Ikeda

Kaoru Watanabe

Kentaro Ageishi

Hiroyuki Ueki

Mihoko Tani

Kyoko Horinouchi

Etsuo Sagara

Tsukasa Matsuda

Naoki Morita

Kiyoshi Hosoi

Takeshi Mikami

Masashi Hiratsuka

Nobuyuki Torigoe

Satoshi Mohri

Hidehiko Soyama

Masahiko Sekimoto

Yukihiro Ishii

Katsuhide Ogawa

Izuru Matsui

Manabu Numata

Yoshimi Tokita

Taiga Iinuma

Torigoe, Nobuyuki

Masayuki Maruta

Hideaki Akagi

According to the invention, there is provided an image recording composition comprising a curable material capable of immobilizing a colorant material in a received ink and curable by an external stimulus.

Image recording composition, ink set for image recording, recording apparatus, and image recording method

A recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer member; an image forming composition layer formation unit that supplies an image forming composition to the intermediate transfer member, the image forming composition containing a curable material that cures upon application of an external stimulus; an ink application unit that applies ink to the image forming composition layer that has been formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the image forming composition layer from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium by contacting the image forming composition layer onto which the ink has been applied with the recording medium; and a first stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus to the image forming composition layer that cures the image forming composition layer, the stimulus being applied at least one of immediately before the image forming composition layer comes into contact with the recording medium, or during the contact.

Recording apparatus

A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting module and a measurement section. The liquid ejecting module includes a pressure chamber that has a piezoelectric element and an ejecting nozzle, and a supply passage that supplies liquid into the pressure chamber, and the liquid ejecting module configured to eject, from the ejecting nozzles, liquid which is supplied to the pressure chamber through the supply passage. The measurement section measures an admittance or a phase difference between a voltage applied to the piezoelectric element and a current through the liquid ejecting module when the voltage is applied.

Liquid droplet ejecting apparatus, liquid droplet ejecting method and computer readable medium storing a program

An image recording composition including water-absorbing resin particles and a curable material that is cured upon application of an external stimulus, a volume average particle diameter of the water-absorbing resin particles being from about 0.5 &#x3bc;m to about 5.0 &#x3bc;m, and a content of the water-absorbing resin particles in the image recording composition being from about 5% by weight to about 50% by weight.

Image recording composition, image recording ink set and recording apparatus

A recording apparatus comprises: an intermediate transfer body; a releasing agent supply device that supplies a releasing agent onto the intermediate transfer body; a particle supply device that supplies hydrophilic ink-recipient particles that receive an ink, onto the releasing agent supplied onto the intermediate transfer body; an ink ejection device that ejects the ink onto the ink-recipient particles supplied onto the intermediate transfer body; and a transfer device that transfers the ink-recipient particles that received the ink, onto a recording medium from the intermediate transfer body, the releasing agent comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of a silicone oil, a fluorinated oil and an organic compound having a solubility parameter (SP value) of about 11 or less.

Ink-recipient particle, material for recording, recording apparatus and storage member for ink-recipient particle

Ink absorbing particle to absorb an ink includes a polymer. The ink absorbing particles in a TMA needle penetration have a minimum temperature Ts10b of from about 80&#xb0; C. to about 150&#xb0; C. at which a needle enters to a depth of 10 &#x3bc;m, a minimum temperature Ts100w of about 40&#xb0; C. or lower at which a needle enters to a depth of 100 &#x3bc;m when an equivalent amount of water is absorbed, and a minimum temperature Ts400w of about 50&#xb0; C. or higher at which a needle enters to a depth of 400 &#x3bc;m when an equivalent amount of water is absorbed.

Ink absorbing particle, material set for recording and recording apparatus

An image recording composition including a curable material that is cured upon application of an external stimulus, and a cationic resin having a cationic functional group.

A composition for image recording includes a curable material that is curable by an external stimulus, and an oil absorbing material.

Composition for image recording, image recording ink set, and recording apparatus

A recording device including: an intermediate transfer member; a particle supply unit that supplies ink receiving particles that receive ink onto the intermediate transfer member; an ink ejecting unit that ejects ink to the ink receiving particles that have been supplied onto the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the ink receiving particles that have received the ink to a recording medium from the intermediate transfer member; a cleaning unit that cleans the ink receiving particles remaining on the intermediate transfer member after the transfer of the ink receiving particles by the transfer unit; and a cleaning aid particle supply unit that supplies cleaning aid particles.

Recording device and ink receiving particles

An image forming apparatus includes a supply unit that supplies liquid recipient particles to receive liquid; a conveyance unit that conveys the liquid recipient particles supplied by the supply unit; a discharge unit that discharges liquid droplets to the liquid recipient particles conveyed by the conveyance unit; a humidity reducing unit that reduces relative humidity inside or around the supply unit; and a humidity increasing unit, on a downstream side of the supply unit, that increases relative humidity around at least one of the liquid recipient particles conveyed by the conveyance unit and the discharge unit.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

According to an aspect of the invention and there is provided a recording material having an ink, ink absorbing particles that absorb the ink, and a curable liquid that cures the substantial surface of the ink absorbing particles.

Recording material and recording apparatus

An image forming apparatus that includes: an intermediate transfer member; an ink absorbing particle supplying unit for supplying ink absorbing particles on a surface of the intermediate transfer member; an ink ejecting unit for ejecting ink to the ink absorbing particles; a transfer unit for transferring the ink absorbing particles to a recording medium; a fixing unit for fixing the transferred ink absorbing particles onto the recording medium; a particle collecting unit for collecting remaining ink absorbing particles on the intermediate transfer member; a humidity reducing unit for reducing humidity around the collected ink absorbing particles; and a particle supplying unit for supplying the ink absorbing particles with humidity reduced by the humidity reducing unit.

A material set for recording includes: ink receiving particles that include a resin having an acid value of from about 50 mg KOH/g to about 750 mg KOH/g, and have a neutralization degree of from more than 0 to less than 1; and an ink that includes at least a colorant, a water-soluble solvent, and water, a value obtained by multiplying an electrical conductivity &#x3c3; (S/m) of the ink by a viscosity &#x3b7; (mPa&#xb7;s) of the ink being from about 0.02 to about 5.0.

Material set for recording and recording apparatus

The invention provides a recording apparatus comprising: an intermediate transfer body; a supplying unit supplying a curable solution containing a resin that is curable by external stimulation on the intermediate transfer body; an ejecting unit containing a recording material onto a layer to be cured formed by the curable solution supplied on the intermediate transfer body; a transferring unit transferring the layer to be cured on which the ink has been ejected to a recording medium from the intermediate transfer body; and a stimulation supplying unit supplying stimulation that cures the layer to be cured that has been transferred onto the recording medium.

Disclosed is a material set for recording, including: an ink including a recording material, an organic solvent, and water; and ink receiving particles including an organic resin including hydrophilic monomer components and one or more hydrophobic monomer components, the hydrophilic monomer components including a monomer component having a hydroxyl group and a monomer component having a dissociable group, an absolute value of a difference between a solubility parameter (SP value) of the organic solvent included in the ink and a solubility parameter (SP value) of monomer components included in the organic resin, other than the monomer component having a dissociable group, being less than 5.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ken Hashimoto