Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Naomichi Kobayashi

Shunichi Higashiyama

Masaya Fujioka

Narumi Koga

Kazuma Goto

Michiko Aoyama

Shougo Sato

Hideo Ohira

Masateru Kawamura

Noriaki Satoh

Mitsuru Ohta

Masahiro Nishizaki

Kouji Inaishi

Masato Tanaka

An image forming apparatus includes: a drawer movable between an inner position and an outer position and supporting a first cartridge including a first photosensitive drum and a first discharge part and a second cartridge including a second photosensitive drum and a second discharge part; and a waste toner box including a first coupling part coupled with the first discharge part and a second coupling part coupled with the second discharge part, in a state where the first cartridge and the second cartridge are supported by the drawer at an inner position and the waste toner box is mounted to the apparatus main body, the waste toner box being movable between a first/second position where the first coupling part and the first discharge part are coupled/decoupled and the second coupling part and the second discharge part are coupled/decoupled.

Image forming apparatus

An ink set for ink-jet recording of the present invention includes a black ink which has a surface tension of not less than 40 mN/m at 25&#xb0; C., and a color ink which has a surface tension of not less than 40 mN/m at 25&#xb0; C. The viscosity ratio of the color ink with respect to the black ink is not less than 1.3. The feathering of the ink is avoided, and the bleeding, which would otherwise appear at the boundary between the black ink and the color ink, is avoided.

Water base ink set for ink-jet recording

A method of manufacturing polymer particles for use in a toner capable of incorporating fine wax particle in a polymer resin particle also in a case of adopting a dispersion polymerization method used generally so far, thereby enabling to prevent offset in a heat fixing device provided to copying machines or printers thereby improving the fixing property of the toner and capable of forming images at fine fineness when the polymer resin particles are used as the toner. The fine wax particle is dispersed by using the polymeric dispersant into an organic solvent and one or more of monomers for forming the polymer is dissolved and the polymerizing reaction of the monomer is proceeded while depositing the fine polymer particles on the surface of the fine wax particle upon deposition of the polymer into the organic solvent in the initial stage of the polymerizing reaction of the monomer, thereby incorporating the fine wax particles into the formed polymer particle.

Method of manufacturing polymer resin particles for use in toners

A water base ink for ink-jet recording comprises water, a coloring agent, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a benzotriazole-based metal-inactivating agent and alkanolamine. When the ink is used in an ink-jet recording apparatus which has the metal member containing nickel or nickel alloy in an ink supply passage, nickel is eluted from the metal member in an amount of not more than 50 ppm. The ink makes it possible to perform stable jetting operation for a long term without causing any deterioration of metal members of a discharge head due to the metallic corrosion and the elution of nickel into the ink.

Water base ink for ink-jet recording

An ink set for ink-jet recording includes a first ink which contains glycerol and a first coloring agent, and a second ink which contains a water-soluble organic solvent incompatible with glycerol and a second coloring agent and which does not contain glycerol. The first ink and the second ink are mixed with each other at a low speed. Therefore, the inks permeate into the paper before the inks are mixed with each other. Thus, it is possible to avoid the color bleeding.

Ink set for ink-jet recording

Ink for ink-jet recording

An ink set for ink-jet recording is provided, in which the color bleed is reduced at adjoining portions of inks and the deposition of dye or the like in a color ink is not caused when a plurality of colors are recorded on regular paper. The ink set for ink-jet recording, which is composed of inks of a plurality of colors, includes at least one first ink and at least one second ink having the following compositions respectively. The first ink contains at least one anionicity-added pigment. The second ink contains at least one anionic dye and at least one ethanolamine hydrochloride selected from the group consisting of monoethanolamine hydrochloride, diethanolamine hydrochloride, triethanolamine hydrochloride, and thioethanolamine hydrochloride.

A set comprising recording inks, with which the color bleed is reduced even when recording is performed on regular paper, is provided. The ink set for ink-jet recording comprises a black ink and a color ink, wherein each of the black ink and the color ink contains at least water, a coloring agent, and a water-soluble organic solvent, the water-soluble organic solvent contained in the black ink has a solubility parameter which is different by not less than 4 from a solubility parameter of the water-soluble organic solvent contained in the color ink, and the water-soluble organic solvent is contained abundantly in an amount next to an amount of water in each of the inks.

An ink-jet water-based ink set comprises a black ink and a yellow ink. The black ink contains a black dye, barium hydroxide, and purified water. The yellow ink contains a yellow dye, ammonium chloride, and purified water. When these inks are used to produce liquid drops and to record images on a recording medium with the aid of an on-demand recording head, the barium hydroxide and ammonium chloride initiate an endothermic reaction, whereby color intermixing is reduced, and adequate spraying stability is obtained.

Ink-jet water-based ink set and ink-jet recording method

A hot-melt color ink-jet recording process comprises ejecting at least yellow, magenta and cyan to make a record. The yellow, magenta and cyan hot-melt inks comprises respectively a yellow colorant, a magenta colorant and a cyan colorant. Each hot-melt ink is prepared by mixing the corresponding colorant with a polyamide resin and a wax. In this recording process, at least one of the yellow and magenta hot-melt inks contains a 1-alkene/maleic anhydride copolymer.

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Naomichi Kobayashi