Abstract: The ink jet recording apparatus according to the present application includes a recording head including a nozzle for discharging an ink composition and a nozzle-forming surface having a discharge opening of the nozzle, a cleaning mechanism performing cleaning operation by ejecting the ink composition from the nozzle, and a wiping cleaning mechanism of wiping the nozzle-forming surface with an absorption member containing cellulose. The ink composition contains a pigment, a crosslinkable component, a surfactant, and water and has a contact angle of 50° or more on the nozzle-forming surface. The cleaning mechanism performs pressurized cleaning by applying a pressure to the inside of the recording head.

Abstract: A treatment method includes: preparing a vibration applying section including a contact member that has a base and a plurality of protruding portions which are provided so as to protrude from the base and which come into contact with a fabric and including a vibration generation source that applies a vibration to the contact member; and a vibration applying step of, in a state in which the protruding portions are made to be in contact with the fabric, driving the vibration generation source such that the protruding portions vibrate and applying vibration to the fabric via the protruding portions.

Abstract: An aqueous ink jet ink composition contains an organic solvent with an SP value of 9.5 to 10.5, resin particles, a plasticizer, and water. With respect to the amount of the aqueous ink jet ink composition, 1.0% by mass to 10.0% by mass of the organic solvent is contained.

Abstract: An ink jet printing recording apparatus includes a belt which supports a recording medium; a heating portion which heats the belt; and an ink jet recording head which ejects an ink jet ink composition, the belt is provided with an adhesive layer, the ink jet ink composition contains a heat cross-linking component, and the belt is heated by the heating portion to a temperature lower than a reaction temperature of the heat cross-linking component.

Abstract: A textile printing ink jet ink composition includes a dioxazine pigment, a resin particle, and a lubricant, wherein the content of the dioxazine pigment is 0.5 to 1.5 mass % based on the total amount of the ink composition.

Abstract: A pigment printing ink jet ink composition includes a pigment, a resin particle, an organic solvent, and water. The organic solvent includes an amide compound represented by the following general formula (1). In the general formula (1), R1 represents a straight chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and R2 and R3 each independently present hydrogen atoms or a straight chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An ink receptacle includes an inner bag filled with an aqueous ink jet ink and a pliable sheath containing the inner bag. The inner bag contains a gas phase in a volume fraction of 0.001 or more relative to the capacity of the inner bag. The aqueous ink jet ink contains a dispersed component, an acetylene glycol surfactant having an HLB of 11 or more, and an acetylene glycol surfactant having an HLB of 9 or less.

Abstract: An ink jet printing clear ink composition includes resin particles; a lubricant; and water. The resin particles includes a urethane resin having a cross-linking group, and the clear ink composition is formed into a dried coating film having a Young's modulus of 5 to 70 MPa.

Abstract: A pigment textile printing ink jet ink composition contains a pigment, a resin particle, a nonionic fluorine-based surfactant, and water.

Abstract: An ink jet ink composition for textile printing contains a crosslinking component having a blocked isocyanate group, tertiary amine, at least one carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of monocarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid, and tricarboxylic acid, a pigment, and water.

Abstract: An image forming method includes discharging an ink jet ink composition which contains a diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment and a solvent having a SP value of equal to or lower than 13 by using an apparatus including a piezo ink jet head satisfying the following Expression (1). 0.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the pair of substrates and which contains at least one kind of additive selected from a ultraviolet ray absorbent and a radical scavenger, in which a gap between the pair of substrates is set according to amount of the additive.

Abstract: A retardation film includes a substrate, concave-and-convex regions formed on the substrate and arranged at a pitch smaller than a wavelength of visible light, each of the concave-and-convex regions having a concave portion and a convex portion, and an inorganic film formed on the concave-and-convex regions by depositing an inorganic material on the concave-and-convex regions in a direction oblique to a surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal, a first optical compensation element, and a second optical compensation element. The liquid crystal is pretilted by the alignment layers. The first optical compensation element has a positive uniaxiality and a first optical axis inclined in a direction different from the pretilted direction of the liquid crystal molecules. The second optical compensation element has a positive uniaxiality and a second optical axis aligned with the pair of substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the pair of substrates and which contains at least one kind of additive selected from a ultraviolet ray absorbent and a radical scavenger, in which a gap between the pair of substrates is set according to amount of the additive.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal device including: a first substrate and a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first optical compensation film formed of an inorganic material; and a second optical compensation film formed of an inorganic material.