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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2013
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Denda, Chino, JP;
Maki Nariai, Shiojiri, JP;
Naoki Koike, Matsumoto, JP;
Takayoshi Kagata, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording method according to an aspect of this invention includes discharging an ink composition containing a metallic pigment to a recording medium using a recording head, and then recording a metallic image in a recording region of the recording medium, in which particles of the metallic pigment have a plate shape and have a coating layer on the surface, the average particle diameter in the ink composition is 0.5 μm or more and 2 μm or less, the total film thickness including the coating layer is 10 nm or more and 50 nm or less, and the average number of the laminated metallic pigment particles in the metallic image is 3 or more and 30 or less.