Abstract: An inkjet recording method is provided that includes the following steps: applying a pretreatment liquid to a fabric; applying a first white ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto an application region of the pretreatment liquid obtained in the applying of the pretreatment liquid, to form an image; applying a second white ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto the image formed in the applying of the first white ink; and applying a color ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto an image obtained in the applying of the second white ink.

Abstract: A set of liquid compositions contains a white ink, a first processing fluid containing an organic acid salt, and a second processing fluid containing a resin, wherein the first processing fluid is applied to fabric before the second processing fluid is applied thereto, and the second processing fluid is applied to the fabric before the white ink is applied thereto.

Abstract: An ink contains a coloring material, an organic solvent comprising an organic solvent A and a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula I and a resin, wherein the proportion of the entire of the coloring material and the solid content of the resin to the entire of the ink is 15 percent by mass or greater, wherein the organic solvent A contains a polyol with a boiling point of 180 degrees C. or higher and with an equilibrium moisture content of 36 percent by mass or greater at 23 degrees C. and 80 percent RH.

Abstract: An ink discharging device contains an ink containing an organic solvent with an SP value of from 9.0 to 12.0, a white pigment, a polyurethane resin with a glass transition temperature Tg of 0 degrees C. or lower, and water, and an ink discharging unit including a nozzle plate including a liquid repellent layer containing a silicone resin, the ink discharging unit for discharging the ink, wherein the proportion of the organic solvent to the entire of the ink is from 0.5 to 2.5 percent by mass and the proportion of the white pigment to the entire of the ink is from 6 to 15 percent by mass.

Abstract: A polymer having a structural unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, where R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group, L1 represents —COO—, —CONH—, or a single bond, X represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms or a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms and containing oxygen, L2 represents —O— or —NH—, Y represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 12 carbon atoms, and L3 represents —NH—C2H4—R2, —O-Ph-CH2CH(R2)2, or —O—Np—CH2CH(R2)2, where Ph represents a phenylene group, Np represents a naphthylene group, and R2 represents a phosphonic acid group.

Abstract: A printing method contains applying a processing fluid to a fabric and applying an ink to the fabric to which the processing fluid has been applied, wherein the ink contains a pigment, a resin having a cross-linkable functional group, a pH regulator, and at least one member selected from a block isocyanate compound, a carbodiimide compound, and a polymer having an oxazoline group.

Abstract: A set of inkjet inks used for forming an image by application of an ink on a cloth is provided. The set includes an ink and a pre-processing fluid. The pre-processing fluid contains water, a compound that flocculates an anionic compound, and at least one emulsified sizing agent.

Abstract: An ink set includes a white ink and a color ink. The white ink and the color ink each independently include water-dispersible resin particles, and a blocked isocyanate compound. A resin of the water-dispersible resin particles includes a crosslinkable functional group. The blocked isocyanate compound includes a functional group that can crosslink with the resin of the water-dispersible resin particles. An absolute value of a difference in static surface tension between the white ink and the color ink at 25° C. is 1.0 mN/m or less. Absolute values of differences in dynamic surface tension between the white ink and the color ink at 25° C. with bubble lifetime of 15 msec, a bubble lifetime of 150 msec, and a bubble lifetime of 1,500 msec are each independently 1.0 mN/m or less. The bubble lifetime is measured according to the maximum bubble pressure method.

Abstract: A processing fluid contains a metal ion and an organopolysiloxane, wherein the content of the metal ion in the processing fluid is from 0.5 to 50 g/L and the organopolysiloxane has a weight average molecular of from 5,000 to 500,000.

Abstract: Provided is an ink including water, and an organic solvent, wherein a dried product of the ink has an endothermic peak temperature Tm of 22° C. or higher but 74° C. or lower as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, the differential scanning calorimetry includes first heating, cooling, and second heating, where the first heating is heating the dried product of the ink from ?60° C. to 140° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min, the cooling, which is performed after the first heating, is cooling a heated product obtained in the first heating from 140° C. to ?60° C. at a cooling rate of ?10° C./min, and the second heating, which is performed after the cooling, is heating a cooled product obtained in the cooling from ?60° C. to 140° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min, and the endothermic peak temperature Tm is an endothermic peak temperature in the second heating.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus contains an ink having a dynamic surface tension of from 30 to 50 mN/m at a life time of 15 msec at 25 degrees C., a container containing the ink and a head configured to discharge the ink to a fabric including a first fabric containing synthetic fiber in an amount of more than 50 percent by mass and a second fabric containing natural fiber in an amount of 50 percent by mass or greater, the head including a nozzle surface, wherein a first distance between positions of two consecutive droplets of the ink discharged from the head on the first fabric is shorter than a second distance between positions of two consecutive droplets of the ink discharged from the head on the second fabric.

Abstract: A liquid discharging device is provided that includes: a first head (11) containing a pretreatment liquid, configured to discharge the pretreatment liquid onto a recording medium; a second head (12) disposed downstream of the first head (11) in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, configured to discharge an ink; an exhaust unit (14) disposed upstream of the first head (11) in the conveyance direction, configured to evacuate a gas present between the first head (11) and the recording medium from a downstream side to an upstream side in the conveyance direction; and a housing (30) internally containing the first head (11) and the second head (12), internally or externally containing the exhaust unit (14), and having an opening (32) downstream of the exhaust unit (14) in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an ink having a dynamic surface tension of from 30 to 50 mN/m at a life time of 15 msec at 25 degrees C., a container containing the ink, and a head configured to discharge the ink to a fabric including a first fabric containing synthetic fiber in an amount of more than 50 percent by mass and a second fabric containing natural fiber in an amount of 50 percent by mass or greater, wherein the droplet of the ink discharged to the first fabric is larger than the droplet of the ink discharged to the second fabric.

Abstract: An ink set contains white ink and color ink, wherein the difference in static surface tension between the white ink and the color ink is 1.0 mN/m or less and each difference in dynamic surface tension between the white ink and the color ink at each bubble life time of 15 msec, 150 msec, and 1,500 msec at 25 degrees C. is 1.0 mN/m or less as measured by maximum bubble pressure technique.

Abstract: An ink set contains a pre-processing fluid containing a multivalent metal ion, a first ink and a second ink, wherein the first ink has a surface tension of 35 mN/m or greater at 25 degrees C. and a life time of 150 ms, wherein the second ink has a surface tension of 35 mN/m or greater at 25 degrees C. and a life time of 150 ms and the second ink is a white ink.

Abstract: A processing fluid contains an alcohol having an amino group and a polyvalent metal salt, wherein the processing fluid is applied to fabric.

Abstract: A processing fluid contains a resin having an amino group and an amine value of from 200 to 1,200 mgKOH/g and a polyvalent metal salt, wherein the proportion of the resin to the processing fluid is from 0.01 to 10 percent by mass and the processing fluid is applied to the fabric.

Abstract: An inkjet ink comprising a resin and a polyvalent metal ion is provided. The resin contains a resin (1) having a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1): —(CH2CH2O)n—??general formula (1) where n represents an integer of 5 to 100. A dried film obtained by drying the resin having the structural unit represented by the general formula (1) has a storage modulus of 1.0×108 Pa or lower in a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement at 25 degrees C.

Abstract: Provided is an ink including water, and an organic solvent, wherein a dried product of the ink has an endothermic peak temperature Tm of 22° C. or higher but 74° C. or lower as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, the differential scanning calorimetry includes first heating, cooling, and second heating, where the first heating is heating the dried product of the ink from ?60° C. to 140° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min, the cooling, which is performed after the first heating, is cooling a heated product obtained in the first heating from 140° C. to ?60° C. at a cooling rate of ?10° C./min, and the second heating, which is performed after the cooling, is heating a cooled product obtained in the cooling from ?60° C. to 140° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min, and the endothermic peak temperature Tm is an endothermic peak temperature in the second heating.

Abstract: A liquid discharging device is provided that includes: a first head (11) containing a pretreatment liquid, configured to discharge the pretreatment liquid onto a recording medium; a second head (12) disposed downstream of the first head (11) in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, configured to discharge an ink; an exhaust unit (14) disposed upstream of the first head (11) in the conveyance direction, configured to evacuate a gas present between the first head (11) and the recording medium from a downstream side to an upstream side in the conveyance direction; and a housing (30) internally containing the first head (11) and the second head (12), internally or externally containing the exhaust unit (14), and having an opening (32) downstream of the exhaust unit (14) in the conveyance direction.