Abstract: Ink jet recording is carried out using an ink set comprising 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: 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: It is an object of the present invention to provide a pigment dispersion, an ink composition, and an ink set, enabling excellent glossiness, bronzing prevention, and ink composition storage stability to be realized. The present invention provides a pigment dispersion characterized by comprising at least a pigment, an aqueous medium, a copolymer resin between a hydrophobic monomer and a hydrophilic monomer, and a urethane resin, and also an ink composition characterized by containing at least the pigment dispersion and an aqueous medium, and an ink set characterized by comprising at least the ink composition.

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: An ink set, exhibiting good ink permeability and fixation, capable of yielding high quality images with no roughness, or an ink set capable of yielding text and/or images of outstanding light resistance, is provided. The ink set of the present invention comprises a dark ink composition and a light ink composition that, while being mutually the same color, are of different color density, and is characterized in that the dark ink composition and the light ink composition each comprise a pigment as a colorant and a resin as a dispersant, in that the ratio between the resin weight proportion B1 and the pigment weight proportion P1 in the dark ink composition (i.e. B1/P1) is lower than the ratio between the resin weight proportion B2 and the pigment weight proportion P2 in the light ink composition (i.e. B2/P2), and in that B1 and B2 differ from each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a counterweight and a counterweight-recycling method capable of having excellent workability, capable of reducing manufacturing costs, and capable of achieving environmental conservation. A metal portion contained in slag produced in an iron making process or in residue in a waste treatment furnace is used as a weight material of a counterweights.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording method and ink set with which recorded material with excellent gloss and greatly reduced gloss unevenness can be easily obtained without higher costs being entailed, the ink jet recording apparatus having to be modified or made larger, etc., and to provide an ink jet recording method with which a high-quality image can be obtained with a low gloss ratio (maximum value/minimum value) dependent on duty, as well as recorded material produced by this method. The present invention provides an ink jet recording method, in which a pigment ink composition and a clear ink composition containing a resin component are discharged to record information on a recording medium, wherein the discharge amount of the pigment ink composition and/or the discharge amount of the clear ink composition is adjusted so that the gloss will be substantially uniform over the entire recording surface of the recording medium after recording.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink set that has a wide color reproduction range, has high saturation, produces a glossy recorded image with no pronounced granularity caused by dot expression, greatly suppresses granularity caused by dot expression particularly when applied to a medium having a coating layer, and allows a recorded image with outstanding coloration to be obtained when applied to plain paper. The present invention provides an ink set comprising at least yellow ink (Y), magenta ink (M), cyan ink (C), and red ink (R), wherein the L* values in the Lab colorimetric system specified by CIE for aqueous solutions of each ink diluted 1000 times are within the following ranges. (Y): at least 89 and no more than 94, (M): at least 76 and no more than 93, (C): at least 74 and no more than 87, (R): at least 55 and no more than 74.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink set which makes it possible to obtain recorded images that have a broad color reproduction range and a high saturation, as well as glossiness without conspicuous graininess caused by dot expression, and which in particular makes it possible to achieve an extreme suppression of graininess caused by dot expression in cases where the ink set is used on media that have a coating layer, and to obtain recorded images with extremely superior coloring characteristics in cases where the ink set is used on ordinary paper. The present invention provides an ink set comprising at least a yellow ink (Y), magenta ink (M), cyan ink (C) and red ink (R), wherein the L* values in the CIE-stipulated Lab display system of aqueous solutions of the respective inks diluted 1000 times by weight are in the following ranges: (Y): at least 89 but no more than 94, (M): at least 76 but no more than 93, (C): at least 74 and no more than 87, (R): at least 55 and no more than 74.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink set comprising at least three color inks, which are yellow ink whose hue angle H°, as defined in the CIELAB color space on a recording medium (PM photographic paper; same below), is in a range of about 80° to about 110°, magenta ink whose hue angle H° is in a range of about 330° to about 360°, and cyan ink whose hue angle H° is in a range of about 230° to about 260°, and further comprising ink (A) and/or ink (B) described below. With the present ink set, it is possible to provide a highly reliable ink set that can be used in inkjet recording and can produce printed matter having a wide color reproduction range, high color saturation, good graininess, and an adequate glossy look.

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: A problem of the present invention is to provide an ink set and an ink jet recording method, according to which a high-quality printed article can be provided for which deformation such as wrinkling does not occur, the color density is high, and there is little blotting or unevenness even if regular paper is used as the recording medium.

Abstract: A pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid containing at least a pigment and a resin, which comprises from 60 to 200 parts by weight of the resin to 100 parts by weight of the pigment, wherein at least one of the resin is a water-dispersible urethane type resin, a weight fraction of a polyurethane urea part of which is at most 2.0 wt % to the urethane resin, and the pigment dispersed in the recording liquid has a dispersion particle size D50 of from 40 to 100 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink set comprising at least three color inks, which are yellow ink whose hue angle H°, as defined in the CIELAB color space on a recording medium (PM-photographic paper; same below), is in a range of about 80° to about 110°, magenta ink whose hue angle H° is in a range of about 330° to about 360°, and cyan ink whose hue angle H° is in a range of about 230° to about 260°, and further comprising ink (A) and/or ink (B) described below. With the present ink set, it is possible to provide a highly reliable ink set that can be used in inkjet recording and can produce printed matter having a wide color reproduction range, high color saturation, good graininess, and an adequate glossy look.

Abstract: High-quality images that have excellent coloring properties and glossiness in the recorded images can be obtained by depositing a colorant-containing color ink composition and a clear ink composition containing water and cationic resin, but no colorant on a recording medium to form a record. The cationic resin is preferably a polyethyleneimine with a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 100,000 or less.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording method and ink set with which recorded material with excellent gloss and greatly reduced gloss unevenness can be easily obtained without higher costs being entailed, the ink jet recording apparatus having to be modified or made larger, etc., and to provide an ink jet recording method with which a high-quality image can be obtained with a low gloss ratio (maximum value/minimum value) dependent on duty, as well as recorded material produced by this method. The present invention provides an ink jet recording method, in which a pigment ink composition and a clear ink composition containing a resin component are discharged to record information on a recording medium, wherein the discharge amount of the pigment ink composition and/or the discharge amount of the clear ink composition is adjusted so that the gloss will be substantially uniform over the entire recording surface of the recording medium after recording.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink set which has a superior effect in suppressing gloss unevenness of printed images, and which thus makes it possible to obtain images that have a uniform gloss. The present invention achieves this object by providing an ink set comprising one or more color ink compositions containing a pigment as a coloring agent and a dispersing resin that is used to disperse this pigment, and one or more clear ink compositions which contain an aqueous polymer but which contain no coloring agent, wherein the dispersing resin and the aqueous polymer belong to a common category so that the 60° specular gloss (according to JIS Z 8741) of the printed images that are formed by the abovementioned color ink compositions and/or the abovementioned clear ink composition is substantially uniform.

Abstract: Ink jet recording is carried out using an ink set comprising 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: Colors look differently when observed under sunlight and room light. At least three chromatic colors and additional chromatic colors differing in hue from said three colors are used in combination. The additional colors are those which have a spectral reflectance which smoothens waviness in the spectral reflectance curve of the nearly achromatic color produced by the combination of the three chromatic colors. As the result, the combination of the colors gives rise to a color which has almost uniform spectral reflectance over the entire region of wavelengths. Thus it is possible to obtain printing which is less vulnerable to change in color under different light sources.

Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide an ink set and an ink jet recording method, according to which a high-quality printed article can be provided for which deformation such as wrinkling does not occur, the color density is high, and there is little blotting or unevenness even if regular paper is used as the recording medium.