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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2014
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomoyuki Okuyama, Chino, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Shiojiri-Shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 2/135 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/135 (2013.01); B41J 2/2107 (2013.01); Y10T 428/24802 (2015.01);
Abstract
An ink jet recording method includes discharging a first ink composition onto a recording medium using a recording head, in which the first ink composition includes a coloring material, an alkane diol with 4 or more to 8 or fewer carbon atoms, a water-soluble solvent, and water; the recording head discharges the first ink composition using a piezoelectric element, and has a resolution per unit length of 200 dpi or more, and the recording medium has an absorbing layer on the surface thereof, in which a nonpolar component of a surface free energy of the absorbing layer is 20 mN/m or lower.