Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Ryuji Shinohara

Yoshihiko Fujie

Hideki Kaneiwa

Atsushi Matsunaga

Yushi Hongo

Masaharu Kawai

Yoshio Ishii

Taiga Mizoe

Hisashi Mikoshiba

Kiyoshi Morimoto

Yoshihisa Tsukada

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Takanori Hioki

Naotaka Wachi

Kiyoshi Irita

Takuya Inoue

Wataru Kikuchi

Hiroshi Takehara

Yuji Yoshida

Takuma Amemiya

Takuya Arai

Masao Ikoshi

Kazufumi Omura

Toshihide Yoshitani

Seiya Sakurai

Tomoyuki Koide

Fumiko Tamakuni

Kazuma Takeno

Yuko Saito

Yasuhisa Sano

An ink composition for performing printing on an impermeable base material, including water (A), a resin (B) which is at least one selected from the group consisting of an acrylic resin, a polyester resin, and a urethane resin, and an organic solvent (C) which has a boiling point of 250° C. or lower, has no nitrogen atom, and satisfies Expression (C1), in which a total content of the organic solvent (C) is in a range of 0.01% by mass to 5.0% by mass with respect to a total amount of the ink composition. In Expression (C1), SPrepresents an SP value of a main resin in the resin (B) in an MPaunit, SPrepresents an SP value of the organic solvent (C) in the MPaunit, and |SP−SP| represents an absolute value of a difference between SPand SP:|SP−SP|≤10.0  Expression (C1).

Ink composition for performing printing on impermeable base material and image recording method

Provided is an image recording method including a step of preparing an ink containing water and a white pigment, and a step of jetting the ink from an ink jet head in a liquid droplet amount of 1.0 pL or greater to apply the ink onto a base material, in which in a case where an ink jetting surface of the ink jet head is immersed in the ink in a vertically standing state for 2 seconds, the jetting surface is pulled up from the ink in the state, and the jetting surface is allowed to stand in the state for 1 minute, a ratio of an area of a region to which the ink is adhered to an area of the jetting surface is 40% by area or less.

Image recording method

An inkjet ink composition includes water (A), a resin (B), and an organic solvent (C) which has a boiling point of 250° C. or lower, satisfies Expression (C1), and has a nitrogen atom, in which a content mass ratio of the organic solvent (C) to a main resin in the resin (B) is 0.01 or greater and less than 2.0. In Expression (C1), SPrepresents an SP value of the main resin in the resin (B) in a unit of MPa, SPrepresents an SP value of the organic solvent (C) in the unit of MPa, and |SP−SP| represents an absolute value of a difference between SPand SP.|SP−SP|≤10.0  Expression (C1)

Inkjet ink composition and image recording method

Provided is an image recording method including an applying step of applying a pretreatment liquid containing water and an aggregating agent onto an impermeable base material and applying an ink containing water and a colorant onto a region of the impermeable base material where the pretreatment liquid has been applied, and a drying step of drying the ink applied onto the region to obtain an image, in which the drying step includes blowing of hot air at a wind speed of greater than 15 m/s to the ink applied onto the region, and in a case where the number of grams of the ink applied per 1 min an image area with a density of 100% is defined as X, and the number of grams of the pretreatment liquid applied per 1 min the image area with a density of 100% is defined as Y, a viscosity of a kneaded material obtained by adding (6.5Y/X) mg of the pretreatment liquid to 10 g of the ink and defoaming and kneading the mixture at 200 rpm for 5 minutes is in a range of 30 mPa·s to 500 mPa·s.

An ink set is an ink set including a treatment liquid having a pH of 4.5 or less or 9.5 or greater, and an ink containing a compound A which generates gas in an environment of a pH of 4.5 or less or 9.5 or greater, a resin, water, and a white pigment and having a pH of greater than 4.5 and less than 9.5, in which a ratio of a content mass of the white pigment to a content mass of the compound A in the ink is 1 or greater and 160 or less.

Ink set, image recording method, and image recorded material

The image recording paper medium contains at least one kind of organic phosphorus compound selected from an organic phosphonic acid represented by the following Formula (1), a salt thereof, an organic phosphoric acid represented by the following Formula (2), and a salt thereof. In the formulae, each of Rand Rindependently represents an unsubstituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, an unsubstituted alkenyl group, or an aryl group.

Image recording paper medium and image recording method

The image recording method includes the following steps (a) to (c):

The present invention provides an ink jet recording ink including a dye which has a weight average molecular weight of 850 or less and is represented by Formula (1) below, a water-soluble organic solvent which has an SP value of 9.4 or more and less than 9.75 and is represented by Formula (2) or (3) below, and water, in which the content of a surfactant is less than 0.1% by mass. R, R: H, a halogen atom, OH, COOH, C1-C6 alkyl group, C1-C6 alkoxy group, NO, an azophenyl group, -L1-Ra and the like, L: O, CH, CH, N&#x2550;N, SOor a combination thereof, Ra: a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, or the like, R: H, an azophenyl group, an azonaphthalene group, -L-Rb or the like, L: C(&#x2550;O), CH, N&#x2550;N, NH, SOor a combination thereof, Rb: a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, a pyrimidyl group, or the like; M: H, Na, NH, an alkylammonium ion or the like, R: C2-C6 unsubstituted alkyl group, and n is 1 to 3. 

Ink jet recording ink

An image forming method comprises: applying a treatment liquid, which contains an organic acidic compound represented by the following general formula (I), a water-soluble polymer compound, and water, on a recording medium; and applying an ink composition, which contains a pigment, a pyrrolidone derivative, a compound represented by the following general formula (II), and water, on a treatment liquid-applied surface of the recording medium. In the general formula (I), n represents an integer of 2 or greater and m represents an integer of 3 or greater. In the general formula (II), l, m, and n represent an integer of 1 or greater, the relation l+m+n=3 to 15 is satisfied, and AO represents ethyleneoxy or propyleneoxy. 

Image forming method

An image forming method includes an ink applying step of applying an ink composition containing a pigment, a compound represented by the following structural formula (1), a compound represented by the following structural formula (2) and water, onto a recording medium being conveyed at a conveyance speed of 80 m/min or higher: wherein l, m and n each represent an integer of 1 or more (l+m+n=3 to 15); AO represents ethyleneoxy or propyleneoxy; R represents a hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms; PO represents propyleneoxy; EO represents ethyleneoxy; and p and q represent integers that satisfy the relations: 0&#x2266;p&#x2266;10 and 1&#x2266;q&#x2266;50.

The invention provides an image forming method including at least applying an ink composition to a recording medium to form an image, the recording medium having an absorption amount of the ink composition, within 20 msecfrom a start of contact of the ink composition with the recording medium, of 20 ml/mor larger according to the Bristow method and being conveyed in a feed direction at a conveying speed of 80 m/min or higher, and the ink composition containing at least a pigment, a compound represented by the following Formula (1), wax and water. In Formula (1), each of l, m, and n independently represents an integer of 1 or more; the sum of l, m, and n is from 3 to 15; and each AO of (AO), (AO), and (AO)independently represents an ethyleneoxy group or a propyleneoxy group. 

A method of forming an image, having the steps of: superposing a heat-sensitive transfer sheet on a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet; and applying thermal energy, in which the heat-sensitive transfer sheet has a dye transfer barrier layer between a support and a dye layer, the image-receiving sheet has a lenticular lens on a transparent support and at least one receptor layer at the back side of the transparent support, and the image-receiving sheet contains at least one kind of a latex polymer in said at least one receptor layer and has a subbing layer which contains at least one kind of a resin that is identical with at least one kind of a resin constituting the lenticular lens, at the side of the transparent support, opposite to the side on which the lenticular lens is provided.

Method of forming image using heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having a lenticular lens

An azo dye of the following formula: wherein R, R, R, Rand Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and Rrepresent a substituent. The dye has an excellent optical characteristic with sharp absorption and excellent fastness.

Azo dye compound, coloring composition, ink sheet for thermal transfer recording, thermal transfer recording method, color toner, ink for inkjet, and color filter

A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, containing a support and an interlayer, an insulation layer and a receptor layer formed on the support in that order, wherein the receptor layer contains at least one kind of latex polymer and a compound represented by the following Formula (I) or an inorganic salt, and the contact angle between the receptor layer surface and water 2 seconds after placement of water droplet, as determined by the static droplet method specified in JIS R-3257, is 68&#xb0; or less or the contact angle 60 seconds after placement of water droplet is 28&#xb0; or less,R&#x2014;(OCHCH)&#x2014;OH&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula (I)

Heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet

A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, in which the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet is provided in a form that it is wound into a roll and all periphery of the roll is covered with a protective sheet, and in which the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet contains, on a support, at least one receptor layer containing a latex polymer, and at least one heat-insulating layer containing hollow polymer particles.

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Ryuji Shinohara