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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1998
Toshiyuki Miyabayashi, Nagano, JP;
Yasushi Takamatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Futoshi Hoshino, Tokyo, JP;
Masatoshi Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Toshihiro Yoshimura, Yokohama, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo-To, JP;
Abstract
An ink composition is provided which can realize an image having excellent rubbing/scratch resistance and waterfastness, is free from a clogged nozzle problem, and enables stable printing. The ink composition comprises a colorant, a fine particle of a polymer, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, the fine particle of the polymer having a film-forming property, a carboxyl group on its surface, and a reactivity with a divalent metal salt such that, when three volumes of an aqueous emulsion, of the fine particle of the polymer, having a fine particle concentration of 0.1% by weight is brought into contact with one volume of an aqueous divalent metal salt solution having a concentration of 1 mol/liter, the time for the transmission of light at a wavelength of 700 nm to be decreased to 50% of the initial transmission is not more than 1×10,sec.