Abstract: A liquid jet printing head includes a discharging outlet for discharging printing liquid, an energy generating element capable of generating an energy for discharging said liquid through said discharging outlet and a discharging outlet face at which said discharging outlet is arranged, characterized in that said discharging outlet face has a water repellent material layer comprising fine particles of an inorganic material distributed in a water repellent resin in a desired distribution state. A liquid jet printing apparatus provided with said liquid jet printing head.

Abstract: A liquid jet printing head includes a discharging outlet for discharging printing liquid, an energy generating element capable of generating an energy for discharging the liquid through the discharging outlet and a discharging outlet face at which the discharging outlet is arranged, characterized in that the discharging outlet face has a water repellent material layer with fine particles of an inorganic material distributed in a water repellent resin in a desired distribution state. A liquid jet printing apparatus is provided with the liquid jet printing head. The liquid jet printing head enables one to always perform stable ink discharging thereby providing high quality printed images.

Abstract: An ink jet head, characterized by having a sealing member formed of a composition comprising a solvent-free one-component silicone-modified epoxy resin in the liquid state at room temperature as a principal component, said composition containing, other than said silicone-modified epoxy resin, a latent hardener, wherein said silicone-modified epoxy resin comprises a silicone component in an amount of 10 to 60 parts by weight versus 100 parts by weight of a starting epoxy resin. And ink jet apparatus which is provided with said ink jet head and a recovery means for said ink jet head. The ink jet head always performs stable ink discharging to provide a high quality print.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head wherein at least peripheral portions of discharge ports comprise a film which contains a polymer having a fluorine heterocyclic structure in the principal chain.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ink jet head comprises a process to prepare a substrate where ink discharging energy generating elements are arranged; a process to provide a solid layer on the aforesaid substrate for the formation of liquid passages corresponding to the foregoing energy generating elements and at the same time, to provide a solid layer for the formation of a liquid chamber; a process to cover the substrate having the aforesaid solid layers with a resin; and a process to remove the aforesaid solid layers.

Abstract: An ink jet head comprises parts for holding liquid ink, the parts being sealed with a moisture-curing sealant composed mainly of an organic high polymer compound having an alkoxysilane moiety represented by Formula (1) in the molecule thereof: ##STR1## where X is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl or halogen; R is methyl, ethyl or propyl; and n is 1, 2 or 3.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a recording head for use in an ink jet head involves providing a discharge port formation member having a surface in which orifices are to be formed, treating a discharge port face of the discharge port formation member with a water-repellent material, and forming orifices by applying radiation from a pulsed laser beam to the discharge port formation member which has been treated by the material having a water-repellent property, so that forming the orifices creates byproducts. The method also involves sticking at least once a tape having an adhesive layer against the discharge port face of the discharge port formation member against at least peripheral portions of the orifices having the byproducts created in the orifice forming step sticking thereto and deposited therein, and peeling the tape therefrom.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head having a fluid passage constituted by forming, on a substrate, an outer frame made of a hardened resin obtained by transfer molding, wherein a transfer-molding resin composition which is the material of the hardened resin is composed of an epoxy resin, a hardening agent, an agent for enhancing hardening and a filler, and the content of the filler is ranged from 0.5 to 17.0 wt. %.

Abstract: An ink jet head accomplishes high quality recording for a long term by an improved liquid repellency treatment. This liquid repellency treatment is applied to at least a peripheral portion of a discharge port on an ink discharge port forming surface of the ink jet head. A mixture of a fluorine-containing high polymer compound and a compound having fluorine substituted hydrocarbon group and a silazane group, alkoxysilane group or halogenized silane group is employed as a liquid repellent agent.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a recording head for use in an ink jet printer involves the steps of, after treating a surface of a discharge port formation member having plural discharge ports formed thereon, which formation member is formed with a material having a water-repellent property, forming the discharge ports by applying radiation from a pulsed laser beam, and then performing heat treatment for eliminating byproducts from the orifice forming sticking to and deposited in peripheries of the discharge ports, or if an orifice plate, byproducts sticking to peripheries of the discharge ports.

Abstract: A recording medium comprising a substrate and a non-porous ink receiving layer is provided. The ink receiving layer contains a water-insoluble polymer containing a cationic resin. The recording medium may be employed for recording by attaching droplets of a recording liquid thereon.

Abstract: A recording device comprises a plural number of ink jet device units, each unit comprising an ink jet head portion, its drive controlling portion and a wiring portion, juxtaposed on a common base plate.

Abstract: A recording medium comprising a substrate and a non-porous ink receiving layer is provided. The ink receiving layer contains a water-insoluble polymer containing a cationic resin. The recording medium may be employed for recording by attaching droplets of a recording liquid thereon.

Abstract: There are disclosed an ink-receiving composite polymer material wherein a nonvolatile organic compound is caused to penetrate into and diffuse through an ink-receiving polymer forming, from any one surface side thereof, and a recording medium for ink-jet recording wherein a nonvolatile organic compound is caused to penetrate into and diffuse through an ink-receiving layer, from the surface thereof.

Abstract: A recording medium comprises an ink receiving layer provided on a substrate, wherein said ink receiving layer contains a cationically modified product of polyvinyl alcohol and a water soluble polymer having no active hydrogen.

Abstract: A print protecting member comprising a transfer layer laminated peelably on a substrate is provided in which the transfer layer comprises at least a surface layer and an under layer. The surface layer has a lower softening point than that of the under layer.

Abstract: A protective member is provided which comprises a substrate and a transfer layer provided releasably thereon, the transfer layer comprising at least a fluorescent whitening agent, an ultraviolet light absorber, and a light stabilizer. A method for protecting a print having an image formed from a dye is also provided. The method comprises a step of laminating and contact-bonding said protecting member on a surface of a side of the image of the print, and step of releasing the above-mentioned substrate from the laminated picture.

Abstract: A process for recording an image by depositing droplets of a recording liquid onto a light-transmitting recording material is provided which comprises depositing at least two droplets of a recording liquid of the same color per image element onto the recording material. An apparatus for the process is also provided which comprises an image-forming means or a recording means useful for a reflective recording material and a light transmitting material.

Abstract: A recording device comprises a plurality of ink-jet recording units arranged separately from each other and an ink reservoir to supply an ink commonly to the recording units.

Abstract: An ink-supplying device for feeding ink to a plurality of ink-jetting heads comprises an ink reservoir common to all the heads and ink-feeding means disposed parallel in the reservoir.