Konica Corporation

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Hanna Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Tomomi Yoshizawa

Keiji Ogi

Nariko Kimura

Shuji Kida

Yasuhiko Kawashima

Hiroyuki Nomori

Shigeto Hirabayashi

Eiichi Sakamoto

Yorihiro Yamaya

Hajime Tanisho

Takeshi Ito

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Shinichi Suzuki

Toyoki Nishijima

Toyoaki Masukawa

Hidenobu Ohya

Hirokazu Sato

Masaki Nakamura

Atsushi Tomotake

Hirotaka Iijima

Yasuo Tosaka

Mikio Kawasaki

Toyoaki Sugaya

Shigeru Mano

Hiroshi Watanabe

Masaki Tanji

Yoshiyuki Nonaka

Tadashi Hirano

Kaori Fukumuro

Kenichi Ohkubo

Kouji Ono

Motoaki Sugino

Kazuya Kuramoto

Sadatoshi Nishibuchi

Disclosed are an adhesive agent composition which has high chemical resistance and solvent resistance and is curable at around room temperature, an inkjet head which has good durability and jetting performance even in the case of using solvent ink, and a manufacturing method of the inkjet head. For these characteristics, the adhesive agent composition contains, as an activator, an imidazole derivative in which an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group is substituted at the 1-postion or at the 1- and 2-positions, and as a base, a compound having three or more epoxy groups.

Manufacturing inkjet head by adhering with epoxy resins and alkyl imidazole

Disclosed is an adhesive agent which is curable and has flexibility at low temperature, and further has resistant to solvent type ink. The adhesive agent includes a base and an activator, wherein the base includes at least any one of: bisphenol F epoxy compound; bisphenol F epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups; and bisphenol A epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups, wherein the activator includes: 100 parts by mass of polyamide composed of a condensation reaction product of C36 unsaturated fatty acid dimer and polyamine; and 5 to 200 parts by mass of alicyclic polyamine, and wherein the base is mixed with the activator with a ratio of 10 to 200 parts by mass of the activator with respect to 100 parts by mass of the base.

Adhesive agent and inkjet head and manufacturing method thereof

An ink jet recording apparatus for jetting ink onto a recording medium having: an ink cartridge; an ink jet recording head; and an ink supply tube which connects the ink cartridge and the ink jet recording head, wherein a driving frequency of the ink jet recording head is 15 kHz or above, and an average surface roughness of an inner surface of the ink supply tube is 200 to 2,000 nm.

Ink jet recording apparatus and ink jet recording method

An ink jet recording method including a step of: jetting a dye ink onto a surface of a recording medium, wherein said dye ink includes a latex capable of absorbing ultraviolet light, and said recording medium includes a substrate having thereon at least one ink absorbing layer, the outermost ink absorbing layer being a porous layer.

Ink jet recording method

An inkjet recording method having the steps of: ejecting ink containing pigment, water and an organic solvent onto an image receiving medium, wherein the image receiving medium has a support member having a non-solvent-permeable resin layer, and an ink image receiving layer having a solvent absorbing layer containing inorganic fine particles and a binder, and a surface portion layer containing resin fine particles, an inorganic pigment and a binder; and conducting a heating and pressing treatment onto the image receiving medium. The heating and pressing treatment satisfies conditions of following expressions:()x&#x3e;2()x&#x3c;3wherein, T represents a surface temperature (&#xb0; C.) of the heating and pressing treatment; Trepresents a glass transition temperature of the resin fine particles (&#xb0; C.); t represents a time (second) of the treatment; and Trepresents a melting temperature (&#xb0; C.) of the non-solvent-permeable resin layer.

Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus

An ink-jet recording method providing an ink containing a fine resin particle, a water-soluble dye, water and an organic solvent to an ink receiving sheet comprising a support and a porous ink receiving layer coated on the support is disclosed. In the method the difference of Din the particle diameter distribution of the fine resin particle in the ink and Din the pore diameter distribution of the porous layer measured using a mercury porosimeter (D&#x2212;D) is not more than 170 nm.

Ink-jet recording method

An ink-jet recording method of forming an image with an ink-jet head, wherein the ink-jet head includes an ink chamber, an electric actuator provided in the ink chamber and an insulating layer covering the electric actuator, including steps of: feeding an ink containing a coloring material and a water-soluble solvent into ink chamber, and applying a driving voltage with a driving frequency of 10 kHz to 55 kHz onto the electric actuator so that the ink is jetted from the ink chamber so as to form the image; wherein the thickness of the insulating layer is 0.1 &mgr;m to 10 &mgr;m, and the concentration of oxygen dissolved in the ink is 4 ppm or less.

Ink-jet recording method and ink-jet recording apparatus

An ink set for ink-jet recording comprising a group of inks exhibiting the same hue and having different color densities and containing a colorant, water-soluble organic solvent and water, wherein among the group of inks, an ink has a largest surface tension &sgr;1 and another ink has a smallest surface tension &sgr;2,and said &sgr;1 and said &sgr;2 satisfy the following conditional formula: &sgr;2/&sgr;1>0.7, and wherein at least one of the inks contains iron ions, magnesium ions, calcium ions such that a total amount of the iron ions, the magnesium ions and the calcium ions is not more than 10 ppm by weight.

Ink set for an ink-jet recording method

Thermal transfer recording material

Thermal transfer image recording method

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for making a color proof and a method for making the color proof using the light-sensitive material. Halftone color proofs having a similar color tone of small dots and large dots can be obtained by the light-sensitive material and the method using it. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a yellow image forming light-sensitive layers, a magenta image foming light-sensitive layer and a cyan image forming light-sensitive layer which are different from each other in spectral sensitivity, and the magenta image forming layer contains a magenta coupler and an yellow coupler. The color proof is prepared by a method comprising steps of sequentially exposing the above-mentioned silver halide color photographic material to each of light having different spectral distribution through each of a plurality of black-and-white halftone images prepared by color separation of a color original, respectively, and developing the silver halide color photographic material with a color developer.

Silver halide color photographic light sensitive material for color

Significant improvement in color reproduction can be achieved by a direct positive silver halide color photographic material having at least one each of a blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and a red-sensitive direct positive silver halide emulsion layer, in which material at least one of said direct positive silver halide emulsion layer contains both silver chloride or a silver halide composed of silver chlorobromide or silver chloroiodobromide containing no less than 50 mol % of AgCl, and a specific compound that is capable of reacting with the oxidation product of a developing agent to release a specific compound capable of scavenging said oxidation product or a precursor of said scavenging compound.

Direct positive silver halide photographic material

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which is improved in stability of cyan dye image formed therein. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing oleophilic dispersed particles. The particles comprises a cyan coupler represented by the following Formula I, an organic solvent selected from phthalic esters having a dielectrical constant of not more than 6.0 and a polymer compounds which is insoluble in water and soluble in a organic solvent: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a ballast group, R.sub.2 is an alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms and Z.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of splitting off upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent.

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A method of preparing a color proof from a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and a black-and-white halftone dot image is disclosed, wherein said light-sensitive material has on a support the photographic component layers including silver halide emulsion layers each having different spectral sensitivities, and one of said silver halide emulsion layers comprises a magenta coupler represented by Formula M-I; ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of non-metal atoms necessary to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring including a substituted one; X represents one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a group capable of splitting off upon a reaction with an oxidized product of a developer; and R represents one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a substituent. The method comprises the steps of:

Method for developing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive

A process for forming a color image is disclosed. In the process a photographic material which comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a 2,5-diacylaminophenol-based cyan coupler at a ratio of over 50 mol % of the total cyan coupler is processed with a color developer containing a color developing agent represented by Formula I at a ratio of over 55 mol % of total developing agent in the color developer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may link together to form a ring.

Method of image formation using a silver ahlide color photographic

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Hino, Japan

Tomomi Yoshizawa