Seiko Epson Corporation

Mitsuaki Yoshizawa

Hidenori Usuda

Keitaro Nakano

Shinichi Kamoshida

Yusuke Mizutaki

Mikito Nakajima

Toshio Kumagai

Yoshihiro Kobayashi

Masaaki Ando

Kaoru Koike

Jun Ito

Yoshihiko Matsuzawa

Keita Ichihara

Tsuyoshi Sano

Ippei Okuda

Hiroaki Kida

Chigusa Sato

Kazutoshi Fujisawa

Atsushi Yoshida

Yoshitaka Shimada

Hiroyuki Ito

Masaki Uchiyama

Bunji Ishimoto

Katsuhito Suzuki

Takeshi Yano

Yuji Hatanaka

Fumiaki Mukaiyama

Mitsuru Nakata

There is provided a maintenance liquid, which is used in maintenance of a device equipped with a discharge head for discharging an ultraviolet ray curable-type composition containing the acyl phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator toward an attachment object, including a polymerizable compound in which a saturation solubility of an acyl phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator at 20° C. is equal to or greater than 5.0% by mass.

Maintenance liquid and maintenance method

Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging first ultraviolet curable ink of a radical polymerization reaction type which contains a radical photopolymerization initiator and a radical polymerization compound and in which transmittance at a wavelength of 395 nm is equal to or less than 1%, onto a recording medium; and curing the first ultraviolet curable ink which is landed on the recording medium by irradiating the ink with ultraviolet light, in which a light source which initially emits the ultraviolet light in the curing of the ink is an ultraviolet light emitting diode in which peak intensity of the irradiated ultraviolet light is equal to or more than 800 mW/cm.

Ink jet recording method, ultraviolet curable ink, and ink jet recording apparatus

There is provided a maintenance liquid, which is used in maintenance of a device equipped with a discharge head for discharging an ultraviolet ray curable-type composition containing the acyl phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator toward an attachment object, including a polymerizable compound in which a saturation solubility of an acyl phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator at 20&#xb0; C. is equal to or greater than 5.0% by mass.

An ink jet recording method includes ejecting an ultraviolet-ray curable ink of which a viscosity at 28&#xb0; C. is 8 mPa&#xb7;s or more from a head to a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet-ray curable ink attached to the recording medium, wherein, in the ejecting of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink, the ultraviolet-ray curable ink is heated such that a temperature of the ejected ultraviolet-ray curable ink becomes 28&#xb0; C. to 40&#xb0; C., and a viscosity of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink at the temperature is 15 mPa&#xb7;s or less.

Ink jet recording method, ultraviolet-ray curable ink, and ink jet recording apparatus

An ultraviolet curing ink jet ink composition includes a trifunctional or tetrafunctional (meth)acrylate having a pentaerythritol skeleton; and inorganic metal-based fine particles as a color material, in which the viscosity is 8 to 22 mPa&#xb7;s at 20&#xb0; C.

Ink jet ink composition, ink accommodation body and ink jet recording method

Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging first ultraviolet curable ink of a radical polymerization reaction type which contains a radical photopolymerization initiator and a radical polymerization compound and in which transmittance at a wavelength of 395 nm is equal to or less than 1 %, onto a recording medium; and curing the first ultraviolet curable ink which is landed on the recording medium by irradiating the ink with ultraviolet light, in which a light source which initially emits the ultraviolet light in the curing of the ink is an ultraviolet light emitting diode in which peak intensity of the irradiated ultraviolet light is equal to or more than 800 mW/cm.

An ink jet recorder includes a support unit configured to support a recording medium, and a mobile unit including a plurality of containers containing inks of identical composition and a head configured to eject the ink supplied from any one of the plurality of containers. The ink jet recorder is configured to record an image on the recording medium in such a manner that the head performs main scanning by ejecting the ink while changing positions in a first direction, and the mobile unit performs sub-scanning by moving in a second direction intersecting with the first direction.

Ink jet recorder

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Minowa-machi, Japan

Mitsuaki Yoshizawa