Abstract: An ink composition that offers a recorded image having rubfastness and having high quality without causing a mottling phenomenon, an inkjet recording method using the same, and a colored article. The ink composition includes a compound represented by the following formula (1): a colorant, a dispersant, and a C4-C12 alkanediol, in which the content of the compound represented by formula (1) is 0.1 to 5% by mass. In the formula (1), R1 represents a hydroxy group or the like, R2 represents an alkyl group or the like, R3 represents an alkyl group or the like, R4 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, and R5 represents an alkyl group.

Abstract: An aqueous pigment ink composition having high scratch resistance and good ejection properties and redispersibility, an ink jet recording method using the aqueous pigment ink composition, and a colored substance including the aqueous pigment ink composition. The ink composition includes a colorant, a resin, and water. The colorant includes a coloring matter that is substantially insoluble in water. The resin is a polymer produced by polymerization of at least one monomer represented by the following formula (1) in which R1 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 denotes a methyl group, a C8 alkyl group, or the like.

Abstract: An ink composition that offers a recorded image having rubfastness and having high quality without causing a mottling phenomenon, an inkjet recording method using the same, and a colored article. The ink composition includes a compound represented by the following formula (1): a colorant, a dispersant, and a C4-C12 alkanediol, in which the content of the compound represented by formula (1) is 0.1 to 5% by mass. In the formula (1), R1 represents a hydroxy group or the like, R2 represents an alkyl group or the like, R3 represents an alkyl group or the like, R4 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, and R5 represents an alkyl group.

Abstract: An aqueous pigment ink composition having high scratch resistance and good ejection properties and redispersibility, an ink jet recording method using the aqueous pigment ink composition, and a colored substance including the aqueous pigment ink composition. The ink composition includes a colorant, a resin, and water. The colorant includes a coloring matter that is substantially insoluble in water. The resin is a polymer produced by polymerization of at least one monomer represented by the following formula (1) in which R1 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 denotes a methyl group, a C8 alkyl group, or the like.

Abstract: An ink set including at least a yellow ink, a magenta ink, a cyan ink, and a black ink and that each contain water, a surfactant, and a colorant. When each of the surfactant contents in each of the total masses of the yellow ink, the magenta ink, the cyan ink, and the black ink is represented respectively by S1, S2, S3, and S4, S1 satisfies 1.0 mass %?S1?2.5 mass %, S1-S2 satisfies 0.1 mass %?S1-S2?0.8 mass %, S3-S2 satisfies 0.0 mass %?S3-S2?0.5 mass %, S3-S4 satisfies 0.2 mass %?S3-S4?1.2 mass %, and S3 and S4 are each 0.1 mass % or more.

Abstract: An ink set including at least a yellow ink, a magenta ink, a cyan ink, and a black ink and that each contain water, a surfactant, and a colorant. When each of the surfactant contents in each of the total masses of the yellow ink, the magenta ink, the cyan ink, and the black ink is represented respectively by S1, S2, S3, and S4, S1 satisfies 1.0 mass %?S1?2.5 mass %, S1-S2 satisfies 0.1 mass %?S1-S2?0.8 mass %, S3-S2 satisfies 0.0 mass %?S3-S2?0.5 mass %, S3-S4 satisfies 0.2 mass %?S3-S4?1.2 mass %, and S3 and S4 are each 0.1 mass % or more.

Abstract: An aqueous black ink composition that can form black recorded images having excellent light resistance and water resistance, in particular, being hardly discolored by light. The aqueous ink composition contains, as colorants, at least both a compound represented by Formula (1) or its salt or a mixture thereof and a colorant having a maximum absorption wavelength ?max in a range of 560 to 680 nm and having a phthalocyanine skeleton. In Formula (1), R1, R2, R5, R6 and R7 each independently represent, for example, a hydrogen atom, a carboxy group, a sulfo group, or a nitro group; R3 and R4 each independently represent, for example, a hydrogen atom or a sulfo group; and n represents 0 or 1.

Abstract: An aqueous black ink composition that can form black recorded images having excellent light resistance and water resistance, in particular, being hardly discolored by light. The aqueous ink composition contains, as colorants, at least both a compound represented by Formula (1) or its salt or a mixture thereof and a colorant having a maximum absorption wavelength ?max in a range of 560 to 680 nm and having a phthalocyanine skeleton. In Formula (1), R1, R2, R5, R6 and R7 each independently represent, for example, a hydrogen atom, a carboxy group, a sulfo group, or a nitro group; R3 and R4 each independently represent, for example, a hydrogen atom or a sulfo group; and n represents 0 or 1.