Abstract:
The invention relates to a surface-modified inorganic pigment which has an inorganic pigment having acid function and an amorphous body located on the surface of the inorganic pigment having acid function and formed by at least a divalent or higher-valent metal and an anion component in a state where the inorganic pigment and the amorphous body do not chemically bond to each other, and which does not exhibit acid function.
Abstract:
A water based ink improving both the image fast and the coloring properties of a record image, characterized in that the components of the water based ink are conditioned such that an ink drop, forming the outline part fixed with a second coloring material, being fixed around the central part fixed with a first coloring material can be formed at least on the surface part of a recording material; a record image; and a recording method.
Abstract:
An aqueous ink which comprises a water-dispersible coloring material and a water-soluble crystalline component, characterized in that as a water component in the aqueous ink decreases, the water-dispersible coloring material forms an aggregate with the above crystalline component; an aqueous ink which comprises a coloring material group comprising a water-dispersible coloring material and a water-soluble coloring material and a water-soluble crystalline component, characterized in that as a water component in the aqueous ink decreases, the water-dispersible coloring material forms an aggregate with the above crystalline component; an ink-jet recording method using the aqueous ink; a recorded article obtained by said method; and a device using the ink. The aqueous ink can make sufficient utilization of fastness characteristics of the water-dispersible coloring material to provide the resulting recorded article with good quality, and also can impart satisfactory coloring including fluorescence through the combined use of the water-soluble coloring material to a recorded portion, which results in excellent printing quality involving high fluorescent strength and coloring property, and in the improvement in the stability and reliability of a recorded article.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide coated fine particles with a uniform particle size, having stable crystals on the surface, and to provide colored fine particles which exhibit good color development. A recorded image formed by a dispersion and an ink, using the coated fine particles, is provided with good color development and fastness. The present invention provides coated fine particles comprising fine particles as cores, the fine particles having a crystal layer on the surface, respectively.
Abstract:
An ink that realizes excellent recorded matter fixation and excellent ink stability and reliability, enabling stable production of recorded matter with high image quality; recorded image; a method of inkjet recording; and an apparatus in which the above ink is used. There is provided a water base ink containing micromicelles dispersed in transparent single phase in water, characterized in that the micromicelles are those composed of a mixture of two or more types of surfactants brought into clouded or semitransparent dispersion form in water and an alkyl having compound wherein the water dissolution group is only hydroxyl. There are further provided, utilizing the same, a method of inkjet recording, apparatus and recorded image.
Abstract:
To provide an image or the like which can easily record a large amount of information without the lamination of a large number of colorant layers, and which hardly allows forgery, alteration, or the like. Provided is an image formed by overlapping multiple ink layers, in which a first ink layer is formed on a recording material by means of a first ink having fluorescent emission property, a second ink layer is formed on the first ink layer by means of a second ink, and the first ink layer is exposed in a dotted manner on the second ink layer.
Abstract:
A water base ink which contains a liquid medium containing water, a water-dispersible coloring material and a surfactant, characterized in that, when the ink is provided on a material to be recorded, the above water-dispersible coloring material is fixed on the material to be recorded through the formation of a plurality of fine agglomerates being interspersed; and a recording method using the water base ink.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a fluorescence ink having a high fluorescence intensity, and an ink jet recording method using the same. The ink contains a first fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence at a predetermined fluorescence wavelength to be used for measurement or determination with excitation at a predetermined excitation wavelength, a second fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence on excitation at the predetermined excitation wavelength, where the excitation spectrum of the first coloring material in the ink to obtain the fluorescence at the predetermined emission wavelength has a peak wavelength range next to the predetermined fluorescence wavelength, and the emission fluorescence spectrum of the second coloring material has an emission wavelength region substantially including at least the above peak wavelength range.
Abstract:
An aqueous fluorescent ink containing water, a colorant and an organic solvent the latter two soluble or dispersible in water, and used for measuring/judging fluorescence in a visible region with an exciting wavelength in a predetermined ultraviolet region, characterized in that the colorant has a colorant structure having fluorophores, and a water-soluble colorant having a sulfonic group as a water-soluble group in a free acid form is used. The water resistance and light fastness are favorable. The content of the fluorescent colorant in ink can be greatly increased though conventionally only a small amount of fluorescent colorant can be contained because of the concentration quenching problem. The fluorescence is excellent and the recorded image has an excellent water resistance. The resistance of the colorant to fixing to the recording medium and the reliability are also excellent.