Abstract: An ink including a pigment, water, and a resin is provided. An image formed with the ink on a print medium has a tack force of 6 gf or greater but 13 gf or less when measured at a probe temperature of 100 degrees C., where the image is a solid image formed at a resolution of 1,200 dpi, subsequently irradiated with light of 395 nm for 0.6 seconds, and left to stand at normal temperatures and normal humidities for 30 seconds.

Abstract: An ink including a pigment, water, and a resin is provided. An image formed with the ink on a print medium has a tack force of 6 gf or greater but 13 gf or less when measured at a probe temperature of 100 degrees C., where the image is a solid image formed at a resolution of 1,200 dpi, subsequently irradiated with light of 395 nm for 0.6 seconds, and left to stand at normal temperatures and normal humidities for 30 seconds.

Abstract: Provided is an ink including: a pigment-containing matter containing a pigment; an organic solvent; water; and a compound represented by General Formula (1) below. A difference (Ra?R0) is 2.0 or less, where Ra is a distance between a Hansen solubility parameter of the organic solvent and a Hansen solubility parameter of the pigment-containing matter determined by a Hansen solubility sphere method, and R0 is an interaction radius of the pigment-containing matter determined by the Hansen solubility sphere method. In the General Formula (1), R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 or more but 5 or less carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 3 or more but 11 or less.

Abstract: An ink contains water, an organic solvent, a resin, and a pigment, wherein the organic solvent has a Hansen solubility parameter (HSP) value in a Hansen sphere in a ?D axis, ?P axis, and ?H axis coordinate space of a solid content of the ink.

Abstract: An ink includes water, a coloring material, an organic solvent having a solubility parameter of from 8.0 to 13.0, an urethane resin particle and a metal ion, wherein the organic solvent having the solubility parameter of from 8.0 to 13.0 has a proportion of from 10.0% by mass to 30.0% by mass to the ink, where the metal ion is at least one selected from an alkali metal ion and an alkaline earth metal ion, where the metal ion has a proportion of from 4000 mg/L to 8000 mg/L to the ink.

Abstract: An image forming method includes applying a pre-processing fluid to a recording medium and applying an ink to the recording medium to form an image thereon, wherein the ink comprises a magenta ink comprising water, an azo pigment, a quinacridone pigment, and an organic solvent.

Abstract: An ink includes water, a coloring material, an organic solvent having a solubility parameter of from 8.0 to 13.0, an urethane resin particle and a metal ion, wherein the organic solvent having the solubility parameter of from 8.0 to 13.0 has a proportion of from 10.0% by mass to 30.0% by mass to the ink, where the metal ion is at least one selected from an alkali metal ion and an alkaline earth metal ion, where the metal ion has a proportion of from 4000 mg/L to 8000 mg/L to the ink.

Abstract: An active-energy-ray-curable composition, a cured material of the active-energy-ray-curable composition satisfying a critical load of 5.0 g or more but 25.0 g or less, the critical load being obtained by a continuous loading test method using a variable normal load friction and wear measurement device, the cured material having an average thickness of 10 ?m and being formed by coating the active-energy-ray-curable composition on a substrate and by irradiating and curing the active-energy-ray-curable composition with active energy rays having illuminance of 1.5 W/cm2 and an amount of irradiation of 200 mJ/cm2.

Abstract: An active-energy-ray-curable composition including active-energy-ray-polymerizable compounds, wherein the active-energy-ray-polymerizable compounds include a monofunctional monomer, a bifunctional monomer, and a trifunctional monomer, and wherein the monofunctional monomer, the bifunctional monomer, and the trifunctional monomer satisfy conditions (1) and (2) below: (1) [number of functional groups derived from the monofunctional monomer]>[number of functional groups derived from the bifunctional monomer]>[number of functional groups derived from the trifunctional monomer]; and (2) a standard deviation of functional group ratios is from 0.003 through 0.030, the functional group ratios being expressed by [number of functional groups derived from N-functional monomer]/([number of functional groups derived from the monofunctional monomer]+[number of functional groups derived from the bifunctional monomer]+[number of functional groups derived from the trifunctional monomer]), the N being mono, bi, or tri.

Abstract: Provided is a resin for a toner, which is a copolymer including a crystalline segment, and having a maximum elastic stress value at 100° C. (ES100) of 1,000 Pa or less, and a maximum elastic stress value at 70° C. (ES70) of 1,000 Pa or greater when the temperature is lowered from 100° C. to 70° C., where the maximum elastic stress values are measured according to a large amplitude oscillatory shear procedure.

Abstract: Active-energy-ray-curable composition including: monofunctional monomers; and polymerization initiator, cured material of the composition satisfying 0.30?D?0.85, where D is difference between peak-area-ratios A and B in infrared-ATR and obtained by: the composition is coated on polycarbonate substrate to form coated film having average thickness of 10 ?m; the film is irradiated with active energy rays having light quantity of 500 mJ/cm2 at UV intensity of 1.

Abstract: An active-energy-ray-curable composition, a cured material of the active-energy-ray-curable composition satisfying a critical load of 5.0 g or more but 25.0 g or less, the critical load being obtained by a continuous loading test method using a variable normal load friction and wear measurement device, the cured material having an average thickness of 10 ?m and being formed by coating the active-energy-ray-curable composition on a substrate and by irradiating and curing the active-energy-ray-curable composition with active energy rays having illuminance of 1.5 W/cm2 and an amount of irradiation of 200 mJ/cm2.

Abstract: Active-energy-ray-curable composition including: monofunctional monomers; and polymerization initiator, cured material of the composition satisfying 0.30?D?0.85, where D is difference between peak-area-ratios A and B in infrared-ATR and obtained by: the composition is coated on polycarbonate substrate to form coated film having average thickness of 10 ?m; the film is irradiated with active energy rays having light quantity of 500 mJ/cm2 at UV intensity of 1.

Abstract: An active-energy-ray-curable composition including active-energy-ray-polymerizable compounds, wherein the active-energy-ray-polymerizable compounds include a monofunctional monomer, a bifunctional monomer, and a trifunctional monomer, and wherein the monofunctional monomer, the bifunctional monomer, and the trifunctional monomer satisfy conditions (1) and (2) below: (1) [number of functional groups derived from the monofunctional monomer]>[number of functional groups derived from the bifunctional monomer]>[number of functional groups derived from the trifunctional monomer]; and (2) a standard deviation of functional group ratios is from 0.003 through 0.030, the functional group ratios being expressed by [number of functional groups derived from N-functional monomer]/([number of functional groups derived from the monofunctional monomer]+[number of functional groups derived from the bifunctional monomer]+[number of functional groups derived from the trifunctional monomer]), the N being mono, bi, or tri.

Abstract: An active-energy-ray-curable composition, cured material of which satisfies W1?75.0 g and 165.0 g?W2?300.0 g when the material is analyzed by variable-normal-load-friction-and-wear-measurement system, W1 being expressed by W1=4*TW1 and W2 being expressed by W2=4*TW2, TW1 and TW2 being obtained by method in which: the material is formed by coating the composition on substrate to have thickness of 10 ?m, and curing the composition, and in the system, load is applied to the material with indenter while the load is changed from 0 g through 200 g for 50 seconds to obtain graph having time in horizontal axis and friction resistance force in vertical axis, and in the graph, a time at which scratch first occurs in the material is defined as T1 and time closest to T1 among times at which change in the friction resistance force is discontinuous is defined as TW1; and TW2 is defined as time at which the substrate is exposed.

Abstract: A toner including a polyester resin having an amorphous polyester segment is provided. The amorphous polyester segment includes a condensation polymerization product between a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. The carboxylic acid includes both aliphatic and aromatic dicarboxylic acids. The toner deforms with a deformation rate of from 1.0% to 5.0% under a pressure of 100 gf at 40° C. and 80% RH. In a binarized image of an AFM phase image of the toner, first phase-contrast images serving as large-phase-difference portions are dispersed in second phase-contrast images serving as small-phase-difference portions, and the first phase-contrast images have a dispersion diameter of 100 nm or less. An endothermic quantity Q1 obtained in a first heating of DSC is from 10 to 50 J/g, and a ratio of an endothermic quantity obtained in the second heating Q2 to that in first heating Q1 is 0.65 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a toner, including: a crystalline resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner has a sea island structure in which a crystal region containing the crystalline resin is formed as a sea, and a non-crystalline region containing the colorant is formed as an island.

Abstract: Provided is a resin for a toner, which is a copolymer including a crystalline segment, and having a maximum elastic stress value at 100° C. (ES-100) of 1,000 Pa or less, and a maximum elastic stress value at 70° C. (ES70) of 1,000 Pa or greater when the temperature is lowered from 100° C. to 70° C., where the maximum elastic stress values are measured according to a large amplitude oscillatory shear procedure.

Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic toner, which contains a crystalline resin, a non-crystalline resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has a storage elastic modulus of 5.0×104 Pa to 5.0×106 Pa at 80° C., and a storage elastic modulus of 2.0×102 Pa to 2.0×103 Pa at 140° C., and wherein the toner has a ratio (C)/((C)+(A)) of 0.10 or greater, where (C) is an integrated intensity of a diffraction spectrum derived from a crystalline structure, (A) is an integrated intensity of a diffraction spectrum derived from a non-crystalline structure, and the diffraction spectrum is a diffraction spectrum of the toner as measured by an X-ray diffraction spectrometer.

Abstract: A toner, including: a crystalline resin; a non-crystalline resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner has a sea-island structure which includes a sea containing the crystalline resin and an island containing the non-crystalline resin and the colorant, wherein the island is 1.0 ?m or less in domain diameter, and wherein the toner is 1.7×104 Pa or less in storage elastic modulus at 160° C.