Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous ink composition including a hydrophilic organic solvent, a surfactant, and a colored fine particle dispersion which contains an oil-soluble dye, and exhibiting a dynamic surface tension of 25 to 35 mN/m, as well as an ink-jet recording method including a step of carrying out recording using the aqueous ink composition.

Abstract: To provide an inkjet recording head in which a high ink repelling property is kept even against the repeated use and which is excellent in film strength and abrasion resistance and is excellent with respect to printing quality of the resulting image, the inkjet recording head comprises a nozzle having: a hole for discharging a recording liquid including an ink; and a portion capable of repelling the ink at the periphery of the hole, wherein the portion comprises a cured film formed from a composition comprising a block copolymer, and the block copolymer comprises a unit A and a unit B, wherein the unit A represents a block polymer (A) comprising at least one of a fluorine-containing polymer and a siloxane-containing polymer having a specific structure; and the unit B represents a block polymer (B) comprising a polyester polymer.

Abstract: To provide an inkjet recording head which is excellent in water repellency and wearing resistance and attains high printed-image quality, the inkjet recording head includes a nozzle having: a hole for discharging a recording liquid including an ink; and a portion capable of repelling the ink at the periphery of the hole, wherein the portion contains a crosslinked resin formed from a polymerizable composition having a fluorine-containing polymerizable polymer, and the fluorine-containing polymerizable polymer has: a first structural unit having a fluorine atom; and a second structural unit having a radical-polymerizable group.

Abstract: To provide an inkjet recording head in which a high ink repelling property is kept even against the repeated use and which is excellent in film strength and abrasion resistance and is excellent with respect to printing quality of the resulting image, the inkjet recording head comprises a nozzle having: a hole for discharging a recording liquid including an ink; and a portion capable of repelling the ink at the periphery of the hole, wherein the portion comprises a cured film formed from a composition comprising a block copolymer, and the block copolymer comprises: a block polymer comprising a fluorine-containing polymer; and a block polymer comprising a repeating unit having a siloxane structure.

Abstract: The invention provides a colored fine particle dispersion wherein colored fine particles including a dispersible polymer having both of a hydrophilic polymer moiety and a hydrophobic polymer moiety which has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 0° C. or less and an oil-soluble dye are dispersed in an aqueous medium; an ink using the same; and an ink-jet recording method using the ink. Preferably, a content of the hydrophobic polymer moiety is from 60 to 90% by mass, and a content of the hydrophilic polymer moiety is from 10 to 40% by mass.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition comprising a fine color particle dispersion containing an oil-soluble dye, a hydrophobic polymer and a high-boiling point organic solvent, wherein the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the hydrophobic polymer is 40° C. or more. An average particle diameter of the color fine particles is preferably 0.01 to 0.5 &mgr;m and has a specific gravity of 0.9 to 1.2. A solubility of water in the high boiling point organic solvent at 25° C. is preferably 4 g or less. Also, the invention provides an ink jet recording method comprising a step of forming an image by discharging the ink composition onto an ink image receiving material and a step of fusing the fine color particles contained in the ink composition on the ink image receiving material by at least one of heat and pressure.

Abstract: An ink for ink jet recording which inclides a water-insoluble ionic group-containing polymer added to a colored fine particle dispersion containing at least a hydrophobic high-boiling organic solvent having a boiling point of 150° C. or more and an oil-soluble dye. In a preferred embodiment, the water-insoluble ionic group-containing polymer is converted by emulsification dispersion into a fine particle dispersion and added to the colored fine particle dispersion, and the oil-soluble dye is represented by specific formulae.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous ink composition including a hydrophilic organic solvent, a surfactant, and a colored fine particle dispersion which contains an oil-soluble dye, and exhibiting a dynamic surface tension of 25 to 35 mN/m, as well as an ink-jet recording method including a step of carrying out recording using the aqueous ink composition.

Abstract: The present invention related to an ink for ink-jet comprising: a coloring composition containing coloring particulates dispersed in a water based medium, the coloring particulates containing an oil soluble dye and an oil soluble polymer; and wherein the coloring composition has wavelength of maximum absorption (&lgr; max(nm)) in the wavelength range from 510 to 560 nm and when the absorbance at the wavelength of maximum absorption (&lgr; max(nm)) is regarded as 1, the absorbance at a wavelength (&lgr; max+75 (nm)) is no more than 0.2 and the absorbance at a wavelength (&lgr; max−75 (nm)) is no more than 0.4.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having one or more layers including a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein any of the layers contains the specific fluorine compound. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material can be stably produced and is imparted with antistatic property.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having one or more layers including a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein any of the layers contains the specific fluorine compound. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material can be stably produced and is imparted with antistatic property.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material having a substrate, a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer and a photosensitive layer coated thereon and having a silver halide, dye-providing compound and a binder, the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer containing a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition, which is colored at a temperature lower than its discoloration initiation temperature (T) of 60 to 200° C.; which is substantially discolored at a temperature equal to or higher than T; and which does not recover its color once discolored, even when its temperature is lowered to a temperature lower than T again, and the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition containing a polymer having a glass transition temperature of 60 to 200° C.

Abstract: The invention provides an inkjet ink which exhibits, at the printing particularly on paper, excellent ink permeability to eliminate the problem of soiling immediately after printing, can be polymerized in higher sensitivity after printing and enables the recording of an image excellent in water resistance and light fastness through polymerization curing, the inkjet ink comprising a coloring fine particle dispersion containing coloring fine particles and at least one oil-soluble dye, a polymerizable hydrophobic ethylenic unsaturated monomer and a polymerization initiator, the at least one oil-soluble dye having an oxidation potential of 1.0 V or more.

Abstract: An ink for an ink jet includes a coloring composition comprising a dispersion medium and coloring particulates containing an oil-soluble dye represented by formula (1) and a polymer selected from the group consisting of polyurethanes, polyesters, polyamides, polyureas and polycarbonates. The formula (1) satisfies at least one of following (i) to (v): (i) A represents —NR4R5, R4 and R5 each represents independently a C1-18 alkyl group having a substituent group; (ii) At least one of R2 and R7 represents a substituted alkyl group; (iii) R8 represents an aryl group having two or more substituent groups; (iv) Two or more substituent groups represented by —NR170SO2R171 are present in the molecule; and (v) One or more carboxyl groups are present in the molecule.

Abstract: An anti-reflection film that is an optical film, at least has a hard coat layer, and a low-refractive-index layer containing a binder polymer, on a transparent support, wherein said hard coat layer and/or said low-refractive-index layer contains: (a) a hydrolysate of an organosilane in which a hydroxyl group or a hydrolysable group is directly bonded to silicon, and/or a partial condensation product thereof; and (b) at least one metal chelate compound of an alkylalcohol, and a compound of R4COCH2COR5, in which R4 is an alkyl group, and R5 is an alkyl or alkoxy group, as ligands, and a metal selected from Zr, Ti and Al, as a central metal.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous ink composition comprising a color microparticle dispersion including an oil-soluble dye, a hydrophilic organic solvent and a perfluoroalkylenesulfonic acid or a fluorine type surfactant other than derivatives thereof, and an ink jet method for recording an image by using this aqueous ink composition.

Abstract: To provide an ink composition that when printed using a nozzle, does not cause clogging at the chip of the nozzle, is free from paper dependency, and when printed on an arbitrarily chosen paper, exhibits superior properties in water resistance, scratch resistance, lightfastness and ozone resistance and an inkjet recording method using it. The ink composition contains colored fine particles containing an oil-soluble polymer and an oil-soluble dye having an oxidation potential higher than 1.0 V (vs SCE), in an aqueous medium.

Abstract: To provide a radiation-curable ink composition that can form a high-quality image on not only liquid absorbing materials to be recorded but also non-liquid absorbing materials to be recorded, is superior in curing properties in air, and is superior in storage stability, color tone, light fastness and water resistance of ink, and also to provide an image recording method. The radiation-curable ink composition comprises a monomer having a polymerizable group selected from the group consisting of an acryloyl group, a methacryloyl group, an allyl group, and a vinyl group, an oil-soluble dye, and from 0.005 to 1% by weight of a storage stabilizer, wherein the oil-soluble dye is dissolved in the ink.

Abstract: An ink for ink-jet recording which comprises a color composition prepared by dispersing, in a water-based medium, coloring particulates that contain an oil-soluble dye and a vinyl polymer which is obtained through copolymerization of a monomer represented by general formula (I) as follows: in which general formula (I): R11 represents a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, or the like; L1 represents —O—, —COO—, or the like; X1 represents —CH2—, —CHR13—, or the like; q is 2 or more if L1 is —COO—, and q is 1 or more in other cases; L2 represents —O—, —CO—, or the like; r is 0 or 1; X2 represents —CH2—, —CH2CHR13—, or the like; s is from 0 to 18; R12 and R15 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, or the like; and R13 and R14 each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, or the like.

Abstract: An ink composition comprising an aqueous medium having dispersed therein a coloring fine particle dispersion, wherein the coloring fine particle dispersion contains a hydrophobic ethylenically unsaturated monomer and at least one oil-soluble dye, and the ink composition contains apolymerization initiator.