Konica Minolta, Inc.

Naoto Niizuma

Hidenobu Ohya

Manabu Kaneko

Takenori Omata

Masayoshi Yamauchi

Hideki Hoshino

Akio Maeda

Masayuki Ushiku

Hirotaka Tagori

Ryo Aoyama

Kazuho Urayama

Hiroki Hamagami

A pattern forming method capable of easily removing a discontinuous portion in a pattern while keeping resistance of the pattern low. A pattern forming method including at least a printing step of printing a pattern intermediate containing a conductive material on a base material, and a plating step of subjecting the pattern intermediate to an electroplating treatment, in which the pattern intermediate printed in the printing step has a plating target portion that is energized in the plating step and a discontinuous portion that is discontinuously formed from the plating target portion and is not energized in the plating step, and in the plating step, by performing an electric field plating treatment using a plating solution containing at least two or more types of metal salts containing different types of metals and a complexing agent, the discontinuous portion of the pattern intermediate is removed to form a pattern constituted by the plating target portion covered with a plating film.

Pattern forming method

Provided is an ink jet recording method in which an image is formed by applying an ink containing a coloring material and a processing liquid containing a flocculant to a surface of a recording medium by a droplet discharge device to coalescence, wherein an application amount of the processing liquid is changed in accordance with an application amount of the ink for each unit area, and is controlled to be 5 g/mor less in all of the unit areas in which the images are formed, and when the image is formed in a plurality of printing passes, an average value of the application amounts of the processing liquid in each printing pass in the unit areas in which the application amount of the processing liquid is 0.8 g/mor more is controlled so that a deviation when compared between the printing passes is within &#xb1;30%.

Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus

Provided is an inkjet recording method comprising the step of forming an image by applying an ink containing at least a coloring material and a processing liquid containing at least a flocculant to a surface of a recording medium by a droplet discharge device, respectively, to coalescence the ink and the processing liquid, wherein the processing liquid is applied to an image forming region on which the image is formed and a peripheral region of the image forming region, and an application amount of the processing liquid to be applied to the peripheral region of the image forming region is controlled to be the same as an application amount of the processing liquid to be applied at an end portion of the image forming region.

Provided are a substrate with a functional fine line having excellent optical properties and excellent adhesion of the functional fine line, and a method for forming the functional fine line. The substrate with a functional fine line according to the present invention has an undercoat layer including a hydrophobically modified polyester resin on the substrate, and has a functional fine line including a deposit of functional microparticles and having a line width of 1 &#x3bc;m or more and 10 &#x3bc;m or less on the undercoat layer. The method for forming a functional fine line according to the present invention includes forming an undercoat layer including a hydrophobically modified polyester resin on a substrate, and then forming a functional fine line including a deposit of functional microparticles and having a line width of 1 &#x3bc;m or more and 10 &#x3bc;m or less on the undercoat layer.

Substrate with functional fine line and method for forming functional fine line

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Hachioji, Japan

Naoto Niizuma