Abstract: The invention provides an ink including a water-soluble coloring material and bis(hydroxyethyl)sulfone in an aqueous medium and having a pH of from 9.5 to 12. The ink permits stable formation of high-quality images on a wide variety of recording media, and has excellent ejection stability, ejection durability and storage stability.

Abstract: The purpose is to provide such ink hardly as to affect an exothermic heater on a change in ink jet performance when used for a long-time ink jet recording according to the way to eject an ink by using an exothermic heater. The ink contains at least one substance selected from dicarboxylic acids, dicarboxylates, tricarboxylic acids and tricarboxylates, bis-hydroxyethyl sulfone, and a water-soluble coloring material in an aqueous medium.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet printing cloth which is dyed with inks containing a reactive dye and is composed mainly of silk fibers, wherein the cloth contains an alkaline substance in an amount of 0.01 to 0.8% by weight based on the dry weight of the cloth.

Abstract: An ink-jet textile printing system includes an ink-jet printing mechanism capable of textile printing on a printing object formed by a cloth product such as a T-shirt, a printing tray for holding a printing target range of the printing object flat, and conveying the printing object while positioning the printing target range with respect to the ink-jet printing mechanism, and a printing object formed by a cloth product such as a T-shirt having a partial pre-process portion obtained by partially pre-processing only the printing target range.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet printing cloth composed of cellulose fibers, wherein the specific gravity of the cloth in an absolute dry condition is controlled within a range of from 1.45 to 1.49 by mercerization.

Abstract: An ink-jet printing process includes the steps of applying an ink to a cloth in accordance with an ink-jet system, subjecting the cloth to a reactively fixing treatment, and then washing the cloth thus treated to remove unreacted dye. The ink has a pH of from 4 to 9 and includes a reactive dye and an aqueous liquid medium and contains at least one of a dicarboxylic (or tricarboxylic) acid and an alkali metal salt thereof, and the cloth includes cellulose fibers and/or polyamide fibers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-soluble addition polymer which is produced from a carboxylated diol represented by the following general formula (I) and a polyisocyanate and has an acid value of 100 to 250, and an aqueous ink using this polymer as a dispersant for a disperse dye: 1

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-soluble addition polymer which is produced from a carboxylated diol represented by the following general formula (I) and a polyisocyanate and has an acid value of 100 or 250, and an aqueous ink using this polymer as a dispersant for a disperse dye: wherein the residue A is an aromatic, alicyclic or aliphatic polybasic acid residue, and the residue B is a trivalent aliphatic alcohol residue.

Abstract: A cloth for textile printing, wherein any of the following substances is present on the surface of or in the interior of the cloth, (a) a tertiary amine compound having either a carboxyl group or a sulfonic group in its molecule, or a salt thereof, (b) a compound having a carboxyl group and an amide group, or a salt thereof, and (c) a compound having a sulfonic group and an amide group, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A method of performing ink jet textile printing of a fiber product involves recording the border of a recorded image with a first ink containing an antibleeding agent, recording inside the border with a second coloring ink to complete the recorded image, and coloring the recorded image with heat. A printed textile article is made from fiber product substrate, and has an image formed thereon. The image has a border of a first ink containing an antibleeding agent, and an inner region located within the border is of a second coloring ink, the image having been colored by the application of heat.

Abstract: An ink-jet printing cloth is disclosed in which a selected type of polyethylene oxide is incorporated in specified amounts. The polyethylene oxide has a larger viscosity average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 3,000,000 and acts to pretreat a starting cloth material so as to be adequate for ink-jet printing. The ink-jet printing cloth,is highly capable of providing images of great color depth with sufficient brightness and sharpness but freedom from an objectionable bleeding. Also disclosed are a textile printing method using that printing cloth and a print resulting from this method.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet printing process comprising the three steps of (a) applying inks containing a disperse dye, a compound for dispersing the disperse dye and an aqueous medium to a cloth comprising fibers dyeable with disperse dyes according to an ink-jet system (b) subjecting the cloth, to which the inks have been applied, to a heat treatment and (c) cleaning the heat-treated cloth, wherein the inks comprise two or more inks which separately contain disperse dyes of the same hue and are different in dye concentration, and the thermal diffusivity of the disperse dye used in the ink having a low dye concentration is higher than that of the disperse dye used in the ink having a high dye concentration.

Abstract: An ink jet printing method for effecting printing on a print medium such as a sheet of cloth by applying a jet of an ink to the print medium. The print medium is formed by preparing a sheet of cloth containing a cationic substance, preparing a backing sheet having a layer of an adhesive agent, and bonding the sheet of cloth to the adhesive surface of the backing sheet. After the jet of ink is applied to the print medium, the sheet of cloth is peeled off from the backing sheet and the freed sheet of cloth is rinsed with rinsing water containing a cation blocking agent, followed by drying.

Abstract: The present invention provides a textile printing method for forming a color mixture portion by partially overlapping at least three colors of inks including disperse dyes. In the printing method, the three color inks contain at least four disperse dyes in total.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet textile printing ink comprising a reactive dye and an aqueous liquid medium, wherein the ink contains at least one substance selected from the group consisting of dicarboxylic acids and alkali metal salts thereof.

Abstract: A textile-printing method imparts ink containing a cyan disperse dye and ink containing blue disperse dye on a cloth such that the cyan ink and the blue ink are at least partially overlapped, thereby forming a color mixture portion on the cloth, wherein a weight ratio of the cyan dye to the blue dye at the overlapped portion is specified in the range of from 10:1 to 100:1.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet ink comprising a recording agent and a liquid medium dissolving and/or dispersing the recording agent therein, wherein the ink contains phytic acid and/or a salt thereof.

Abstract: An ink-jet printing cloth is disclosed in which a selected type of polyethylene oxide is incorporated in specified amounts. The polyethylene oxide has a larger viscosity average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 3,000,000 and acts to pretreat a starting cloth material so as to be adequate for ink-jet printing. The ink-jet printing cloth is highly capable of providing images of great color depth with sufficient brightness and sharpness but freedom from an objectionable bleeding. Also disclosed are a textile printing method using that printing cloth and a print resulting from this method.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink for ink-jet printing comprising a disperse dye in an amount of from 0.1 to 15% by weight, a compound that disperses said disperse dye, a water-soluble organic solvent, bishydroxyethylsulfone and water, wherein said disperse dye has an average particle diameter in a range of from 150 to 400 nm, and dye particles having a particle diameter of not more than 200 nm occupy 85% by weight in a particle diameter distribution, and dye particles having a particle diameter of not less than 1,000 nm are substantially not contained.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet recording process which comprises using at least color inks of yellow, magenta and cyan colors and a black ink, and ejecting out the inks on a recording material to record a color image on the recording material, wherein the color inks contain a penetrability-imparting surfactant and/or a penetrable solvent, and the black ink contains a pigment as a coloring material. An ink set and an instrument for use in such a process are also disclosed.