Abstract: A recording material produced by using an ultraviolet-curable composition for inkjet that includes a polymerized compound and a glittering powder includes a recording medium and a print layer formed on the recording medium. The thickness of the print layer is T (?m). When an area that is thickness 0.5T (?m) from an outer surface in the print layer is a first area and an area that is thickness 0.5T (?m) from a contact surface contacting the recording medium in the print layer is a second area, a ratio of the glittering powder included in the first area of the print layer is more than 70 percent by volume and less than 95 percent by volume, and a ratio of the glittering powder included in the second area of the print layer is more than 5 percent by volume and less than 30 percent by volume.

Abstract: An ultraviolet-curable composition for inkjet, which is discharged by an inkjet method, includes a polymerized compound, a metal powder, and a dispersant. The metal powder is treated by a surface preparation with a fluorinated silane compound and/or a fluorinated phosphate ester as a surface preparation agent. The dispersant has a polymeric structure in a basic.

Abstract: The invention provides metal powder constituted from metal particles. Each of the metal particles comprises a base particle having a surface and a metal material constituting at least the surface of the base particle. The base particle is subjected to a surface treatment with a fluorine type phosphoric acid ester. Further, the invention also provides an ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition to be ejected by using an ink jet method. The ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition comprises a polymerizable compound and metal powder constituted from metal particles. The metal particles of the metal powder are subjected to a surface treatment with a fluorine type phosphoric acid ester.

Abstract: An ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition of the present invention is characterized by being adapted to be ejected using an ink jet method and containing: a polymerizable compound; metal particles subjected to a surface treatment; and a substance A having a partial structure represented by the following formula (1), where R1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or an alkoxy silyl group, and each of R2, R3, R4 and R5 is independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: A color filter ink set is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink set includes a plurality of inks with each of the inks including a colorant and a liquid medium that disperses and/or dissolves the colorant. The inks include a green ink having C. I. Pigment Green 58 and a substance represented by a prescribed chemical formula. A viscosity at 25° C. of the liquid medium of the green ink is lower than a viscosity at 25° C. of the liquid medium of the ink other than the green ink. A difference (?max??min) between a viscosity (?max (mPa·s)) of the ink having the highest viscosity among the inks at 25° C. and a viscosity (?min (mPa·s)) of the ink having the lowest viscosity among the inks at 25° C. is 1.0 mPa·s or less.

Abstract: A color filter manufacturing method includes discharging droplets of an ink from a droplet discharge head into a plurality of cells formed on a substrate while moving the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head, and curing the ink discharged in the cells to form a colored portion within each of the cells. The discharging of the droplets includes prohibiting landing of the droplets in a landing prohibition region formed at a predetermined width from edges of each of the cells in a movement direction of the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head. The landing prohibition region being arranged so that a relationship 0.5?L1/L2?4.5 is satisfied, wherein a value L1 indicates a width of the landing prohibition region and a value L2 indicates an average diameter of the droplets of the ink.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a resin material, and a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant. The resin material includes a polymer containing a first monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a second monomer component having a carboxyl group or acid anhydride group, and a third monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant, and a resin material. The resin material includes a polymer X and a polymer Y. The polymer X has a monomer component x1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x3 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, and a monomer component x4 represented by a prescribed chemical formula. The polymer Y has a monomer component y1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula and a monomer component y2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: To provide a pattern formation method capable of forming a pattern by cleaning a liquid droplet ejection head without causing problems during the liquid droplet ejection operation, when the liquid droplet ejection head stored with a storage solution is used again, a pattern formation method includes: filling a passage including a liquid droplet ejection head and a conduit to feed a functional solution to the liquid droplet ejection head with purified water; filling the passage with a solvent dissolving both the purified water and a solvent contained in the functional solution, filling the passage with the solvent contained in the functional solution, surface treating a substrate by forming a lyophobic film on a region surrounding a pattern formation region defined on the substrate; and disposing liquid droplets on the pattern formation region with the liquid droplet ejection head.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a resin material, and a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant. The resin material includes a polymer containing a first monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a second monomer component having a carboxyl group or acid anhydride group, and a third monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant, and a resin material. The liquid medium has a characteristic in which, when a cured epoxy-based adhesive material and a urethane-based adhesive material are left in the liquid medium for six days under a sealed condition at an atmospheric pressure and a temperature of approximately 70° C., a swelling ratio of the cured epoxy-based adhesive material is 35% or less, and a swelling ratio of the cured urethane-based adhesive material is 160% or less. The resin material includes a polymer having monomer components represented by prescribed chemical formulas.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant, and a resin material. The resin material includes a polymer X and a polymer Y. The polymer X has a monomer component x1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x3 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, and a monomer component x4 represented by a prescribed chemical formula. The polymer Y has a monomer component y1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula and a monomer component y2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a pigment, a dispersing agent and a liquid medium. The pigment includes a halogenated phthalocyanine zinc complex and a pigment derivative represented by a prescribed chemical formula. The dispersing agent disperses the pigment. The liquid medium, in which the pigment is dispersed, includes at least a first liquid and a second liquid different than the first liquid. A boiling point at atmospheric pressure of the first liquid is 180 to 290° C. A content ratio of the second liquid in the color filter ink is 5 to 20 wt %. A relationship |SP (X)?SP (Y)|?0.8 is satisfied, wherein a value SP (X) indicates a solubility parameter for the dispersing agent, and a value SP (Y) indicates a solubility parameter for the second liquid.

Abstract: A color filter manufacturing method includes discharging droplets of an ink from a droplet discharge head into a plurality of cells formed on a substrate while moving the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head, and curing the ink discharged in the cells to form a colored portion within each of the cells. The discharging of the droplets includes prohibiting landing of the droplets in a landing prohibition region formed at a predetermined width from edges of each of the cells in a movement direction of the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head. The landing prohibition region being arranged so that a relationship 0.5?L1/L2?4.5 is satisfied, wherein a value L1 indicates a width of the landing prohibition region and a value L2 indicates an average diameter of the droplets of the ink.

Abstract: A color filter ink set is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink set includes a plurality of inks with each of the inks including a colorant and a liquid medium that disperses and/or dissolves the colorant. The inks include a green ink having C. I. Pigment Green 58 and a substance represented by a prescribed chemical formula. A viscosity at 25° C. of the liquid medium of the green ink is lower than a viscosity at 25° C. of the liquid medium of the ink other than the green ink. A difference (?max??min) between a viscosity (?max (mPa·s)) of the ink having the highest viscosity among the inks at 25° C. and a viscosity (?min (mPa·s)) of the ink having the lowest viscosity among the inks at 25° C. is 1.0 mPa·s or less.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes C. I. Pigment Green 36, a dispersion medium, and a pigment derivative. The dispersion medium disperses the C. I. Pigment Green 36 and includes one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of 1,3-butylene glycol diacetate, bis(2-butoxyethyl)ether, 2-(2-methoxy-1-methylethoxy)-1-methylethylacetate, triethylene glycol butylmethylether, and diethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate. The pigment derivative is represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes C.I. Pigment Red 177, a dispersion medium, and a pigment derivative. The dispersion medium disperses the C.I. Pigment Red 177 and includes one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of 1,3-butylene glycol diacetate, bis(2-butoxyethyl)ether, 2-(2-methoxy-1-methylethoxy)-1-methylethylacetate, triethylene glycol butylmethylether, and diethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate. The pigment derivative is represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: A color filter ink, which is used to produce a color filter by using an inkjet method, includes: C. I. pigment yellow 150; and a sulfonated pigment derivative represented by following chemical formula 1: where n represents an integer of 1 to 5, and X1 to X8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes C. I. Pigment Red 254, a dispersion medium, and a pigment derivative. The dispersion medium disperses the C. I. Pigment Red 254 and includes one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of 1,3-butylene glycol diacetate, bis(2-butoxyethyl)ether, 2-(2-methoxy-1-methylethoxy)-1-methylethylacetate, triethylene glycol butylmethylether, and diethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate. The pigment derivative is represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: An ink composition includes a conductive fine particle, a dispersion medium in which the conductive fine particle is dispersed, and a combustion substance that starts a combustion reaction by receiving light.