Abstract: [Problems] There is provided an image recording method that provides resulting images with an excellent gloss and an improved closeness of contact with the recording medium used. [Solving Means] An image recording method including a first step for recording a glossy image layer on a recording medium using a glossy ink composition containing a metal pigment and a second step for recording a finishing layer on the glossy image layer using a black ink composition to reduce the brightness of the glossy image.

Abstract: Ink jet recording is carried out using an ink set including a clear ink composition that contains polymer fine particles and does not contain a colorant, a yellow ink composition, a magenta ink composition, a cyan ink composition, a red ink composition, a violet ink composition, and a black ink composition, whereby a high-quality recorded article having excellent recorded image coloration and glossiness can be obtained.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention include providing composite metallic thin filmy particles for conductive inks and a conductive ink, both allowing the production of highly conductive substrates with simpler equipment and at a lower cost, providing a method for making such a conductive substrate, and providing such a conductive substrate. The present invention includes Step 1 for coating a surface of a base material sheet with a composite metallic thin film layer that contains at least one of a resin layer and a wax layer and at least one of a metal layer and a metal compound layer and Step 2 for removing the composite metallic thin film layer from the sheet. The resultant composite metallic thin filmy particles and conductive ink can be used in a conductive substrate producing apparatus, formed into a pattern on the conductive substrate by screen printing, an ink jet method, or some other liquid-based process.

Abstract: An ink set includes an oil ink composition containing a metal pigment; and at least one aqueous ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic ink composition containing a chromatic pigment, a black ink composition containing a black pigment, and a white ink composition containing a white pigment.

Abstract: A method of forming an opaque layer includes forming a first layer by discharging droplets of an ink composition containing a metallic pigment on a record medium by an ink-jet recording process and forming a second layer by discharging droplets of an ink composition containing a white pigment on the record medium by an ink-jet recording process. The opaque layer is formed on the record medium on the side where the first layer and the second layer are formed in a region where the first layer and the second layer overlap each other.

Abstract: A yellow ink composition includes C.I. Pigment Yellow and C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 as coloring agents. The ratio of a C.I. Pigment Yellow 185 content (percent by weight) to a C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 content (percent by weight) is in the range of 0.5 to 15. The yellow ink composition has a C.I. Pigment Yellow 185 content of 10% to 20% by weight and a C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 content of 10% to 20% by weight.

Abstract: A yellow ink composition comprises C. I. Pigment Yellow 185 used as a colorant and has a pigment concentration of 10 to 20 weight percent.

Abstract: Disclosed is a five-color ink set for ink jet recording, which can realize good images excellent in lightfastness and waterfastness, as well as particularly in hue. The five-color ink set for ink jet recording comprises a cyan ink composition, a magenta ink composition, a yellow ink composition, a green ink composition and an orange ink composition, wherein the cyan ink composition comprises C.I. Pigment Blue 15: 3 or C.I. Pigment Blue 15: 4, the magenta ink composition comprises C.I. Pigment Red 122, C.I. Pigment Red 202, C.I. Pigment Red 209 or C.I. Pigment Violet 19, the yellow ink composition comprises C.I. Pigment Yellow 213, the green ink composition comprises C.I. Pigment Green 7 or C.I. Pigment Green 36, and the orange ink composition comprises C.I. Pigment Orange 64, C.I. Pigment Orange 43 or C.I. Pigment Orange 71.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyallylamine-based high-molecular-weight polymer which is easily soluble in water and in an organic solvent and gives an excellently stable aqueous solution or organic solvent solution thereof which is suitable for use in the fields of fine chemicals such as the field of inkjet recording, and the polymer is a modified polyallylamine obtained by modifying a copolymer of N,N-dialkylallylamine and allylamine.

Abstract: There is provided an ink set for ink jet recording, which can realize lightfastness and waterfastness and, at the same time, can realize good images, especially images having a good hue. The ink set for ink jet recording comprises a cyan ink composition, a magenta ink composition, and a yellow ink composition, wherein the cyan ink composition comprises as a colorant at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of C.I. Pigment Blue 15:3 and C.I. Pigment Blue 15:4, the magenta ink composition comprises as a colorant at least one pigment selected from group consisting of C.I. Pigment Red 122, C.I. Pigment Red 202, C.I. Pigment Red 209, and C.I. Pigment Violet 19, and the yellow ink composition comprises as a colorant C.I. Pigment Yellow 213.

Abstract: A method for detecting an aqueous ink composition contained in an ink container, the aqueous ink composition containing at least one reducing sugar, includes measuring the type or concentration of the reducing sugar contained in the aqueous ink composition, and determining the type or remaining amount of the aqueous ink composition on the basis of the result.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing luminous element particles, comprising: forming a luminous element layer, containing a release layer and luminous organic compound layer, on at least one side of a base material; and micro-fragmenting the luminous element layer after separating the same from the one side of the base material.

Abstract: There is provided an ink composition which can yield records possessing excellent rubbing/abrasion resistance and scratch resistance. Specifically, records possessing excellent rubbing/abrasion resistance and scratch resistance can be produced by using an ink composition comprising: an alkali-soluble copolymer; water; a colorant; and at least one member selected from the group consisting of wax, a viscosity modifier, and a wetting agent. The alkali-soluble copolymer is a copolymer, with an acid value of not more than 40, which is produced by polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and other monomer copolymerizable with the ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer in the presence of an alcoholic hydroxyl-containing water-soluble polymer compound or a copolymerizable surfactant and has been adjusted to a pH value, at which the copolymer is soluble in water, by the addition of an inorganic base.

Abstract: An ink set includes an oil ink composition containing a metal pigment; and at least one aqueous ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic ink composition containing a chromatic pigment, a black ink composition containing a black pigment, and a white ink composition containing a white pigment.

Abstract: An ink set, comprising: an oil based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one or more oil based ink compositions selected from a group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing chromatic color pigment, a black ink composition containing black pigment, and a white ink composition containing white pigment.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oil-based ink composition for ink-jet recording comprising at least a coloring material, an organic solvent and a non-aqueous resin emulsion.

Abstract: This invention provides a treatment liquid for an ink jet recording medium having a recording face of a plastic film, wherein the treatment liquid including at least a specific cyclic ester compound or a specific cyclic amide compound, a primer liquid for printing, and an ink composition. According to the present invention, a plastic recorded matter possessing excellent adhesion and waterfastness can be formed on a recording medium having a recording face of a plastic film.

Abstract: The invention relates to a screen for projectors which comprises a screen base in which at least two kinds of colorants selected from a colorant having an absorption wavelength region in 400 nm to 440 nm, a colorant having an absorption wavelength region in 470 nm to 510 nm, and a colorant having an absorption wavelength region in 570 nm to 610 nm are carried on the whole image display area of the screen base. Also disclosed are processes for producing the screen and projectors having the screen.

Abstract: A two-part curable ink composition set includes an ink composition A which contains at least a photopolymerization initiator and a polymerizable compound and which does not contain a coloring material, and an ink composition B which contains at least a coloring material and a polymerizable compound and which does not contain a photopolymerization initiator, wherein either one or each of the ink composition A and the ink composition B contains a resin emulsion dispersed in the polymerizable compound.

Abstract: An ink set includes at least a magenta ink composition and a light magenta ink composition. The light magenta ink composition is formed with a pigment density lower than a pigment density of the magenta ink composition. A pigment used in the magenta ink composition is C.I. Pigment Violet 19, and a pigment used in the light magenta ink composition is C.I. Pigment Red 122.