Abstract: A generation unit, which is configured to process image data to generate print data for applying an ink and a reaction liquid such that the print data corresponds to respective passes, generates print data for the ink such that the ink is applied only in a pass of which the elapsed time after application of the reaction liquid to the print medium is equal to or longer than the first time and shorter than the second time. The first time is from the timing where the reaction liquid is applied to the print medium up to the timing where adjacent droplets of the applied reaction liquid come into contact with each other and coalesce to form a reaction liquid film. The second time is from the timing where the reaction liquid is applied to the print medium up to the timing where the formed reaction liquid film is dissolved.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a printing unit, and a heating unit that heats a print medium. The conveyance unit conveys the print medium such that the printing unit can print an image onto a second print region at a printing position when the heating unit can heat a first print region at a heating position. If the ink amount applied to the first print region is a first amount, an image is printed onto the second print region in a first mode. If the applied ink amount is a second amount larger than the first amount, an image is printed onto the second print region in a second mode. A time for which the first print region passes through the heating position in the second mode is longer than a time for which the first print region passes through the heating position in the first mode.

Abstract: A printing apparatus applies liquids so that a reaction liquid and a clear emulsion liquid are mainly applied in a first scanning stage; a coloring material liquid is mainly applied in an intermediate scanning stage; and the clear emulsion liquid is mainly applied in a last scanning stage.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is operable to eject a plurality of inks having different functions onto any one of a plurality of types of printing medium. The plurality of inks include a first ink containing a coloring material, and a second ink containing a polymer emulsion and substantially no coloring material. The plurality of types of printing medium includes a first printing medium and a second printing medium less permeable to liquid than the first printing medium. When the first printing medium is printed, the first ink is used without using the second ink, and when the second printing medium is printed, both the first and the second ink are used.

Abstract: An ink set including a first ink containing a pigment and a water-soluble resin having an anionic group, a second ink containing substantially no pigment and a reactive component, and a third ink containing a polymer emulsion and a water-soluble resin having an anionic group. The pKa of the reactive component is lower than the pKa of the anionic group of the water-soluble resin in the first ink and higher than the pKa of the anionic group of the water-soluble resin in the third ink.

Abstract: A printing apparatus applies liquids so that a reaction liquid and a clear emulsion liquid are mainly applied in a first scanning stage; a coloring material liquid is mainly applied in an intermediate scanning stage; and the clear emulsion liquid is mainly applied in a last scanning stage

Abstract: A recording apparatus discharges both high-permeability black ink and low-permeability black ink to a boundary between a color area and a black area.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is operable to eject a plurality of inks having different functions onto any one of a plurality of types of printing medium. The plurality of inks include a first ink containing a coloring material, and a second ink containing a polymer emulsion and substantially no coloring material. The plurality of types of printing medium includes a first printing medium and a second printing medium less permeable to liquid than the first printing medium. When the first printing medium is printed, the first ink is used without using the second ink, and when the second printing medium is printed, both the first and the second ink are used.

Abstract: An ink set including a first ink containing a pigment and a water-soluble resin having an anionic group, a second ink containing substantially no pigment and a reactive component, and a third ink containing a polymer emulsion and a water-soluble resin having an anionic group. The pKa of the reactive component is lower than the pKa of the anionic group of the water-soluble resin in the first ink and higher than the pKa of the anionic group of the water-soluble resin in the third ink.

Abstract: A recording apparatus discharges both high-permeability black ink and low-permeability black ink to a boundary between a color area and a black area.

Abstract: When an image is printed with inks each containing a polymer emulsion and a film forming agent, the ejection of the inks is controlled so that the ink having a relatively low dynamic surface tension forms dots having a higher dot connectivity than the dots formed with the ink having a relatively high dynamic surface tension.

Abstract: When an image is printed with inks each containing a polymer emulsion and a film forming agent, the ejection of the inks is controlled so that the ink having a relatively low dynamic surface tension forms dots having a higher dot connectivity than the dots formed with the ink having a relatively high dynamic surface tension.