Abstract: The present invention provides an ink set, in which in ink jet recording, an ejection stability is enhanced, hues, light resistance and water resistance of an image obtained are made excellent, and image keeping quality under severe conditions is improved, wherein the color ink set comprising a plurality of inks different in hues in order to record on a recording medium, the ink set comprising as a black ink at least a specified coloring agent, which has a ?max of 500 nm to 700 nm and a half value width in an absorption spectrum of a dilute solution normalized to an absorbance of 100 nm or more, an ink cartridge containing the same, an ink jet printer carrying them, and an image recording method.

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 object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording ink ensuring excellent discharge stability even after aging of the ink and also exhibiting excellent weather resistance. This object of the present invention can be attained by a black ink for inkjet recording, comprising an aqueous medium containing a dye in which ?max of the absorption spectrum in an aqueous solution is in the region from 500 and 700 nm and the standardized half-value width thereof is 100 nm or more. The aqueous ink of the present invention is more enhanced in the discharge stability and weather resistance when the dye contained in the ink, particularly, the dye having the above-described spectral characteristics, is a dye having an oxidation potential of 1.0 V vs SCE or more, 2) a dye having a discoloration rate constant of 5.0×10?2 Hr?1 or less, 3) a dye where the maximum value/minimum value ratio of discoloration rate constants of three colors is 1.

Abstract: An ink comprising a compound represented by formula (I) as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A phthalocyanine dye mixture having a specific structure, an ink using the dye mixture, an inkjet recording ink, an inkjet recording method and a method for improving preservability of image formed are provided.

Abstract: An azo dye represented by formula (II) as defined in the specification, a process of producing the same and a coloring composition containing the azo dye.

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: The present invention provides a coloring composition which affords colored images and colored materials excellent in water resistance and fastness using a novel azo compound having an excellent water resistance and a sufficient fastness to light, heat, humidity, and active gases in the environment as a black dye, and an inkjet recording ink composition and an inkjet recording method capable of forming images excellent in the above characteristic properties. A coloring composition containing a dis-azo compound or poly-azo compound which contains two or more substituents having a pKa value in water of ?10 to 5 and which has an oxidation potential more positive than 0.8 V (vs SCE), and an inkjet recording ink composition containing the coloring composition and an inkjet recording method wherein an image is formed on an image-receiving material containing a support having provided thereon an ink receiving layer containing a white inorganic pigment particle, using the inkjet recording ink composition.

Abstract: A recording medium containing a substantially colorless compound in which at least 10 atoms having conjugate ? electrons are present on a per-molecule basis, wherein it is especially preferable that the compound has at least two aromatic ring groups and/or shows no fluorescence. An ink composition used for printing in image form on media, with the composition containing a dye and controlling a hue change caused in the printed images over a period of one hour immediately after the printing to 5 or below in color-difference terms. And a method of recording images on media by printing an ink composition in image form, wherein the ink composition contains a dye and a hue change caused in the printed images over a period of one hour immediately after the printing is controlled to 5 or below in color-difference terms.

Abstract: The following 4,4?-bis(1,3,5-triazinylamino)stilbene-2,2?-disulfonic acid derivative is well soluble in water: in which each of R11 and R12 is hydrogen, or a specifically substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; each of R21 and R22 is hydrogen, a specifically substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a specifically substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; M is hydrogen, alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium, or pyridinium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reading an image, which comprises exposing a color photosensitive material having at least three photosensitive layers containing blue-, green- and red-photosensitive silver halide emulsions, respectively, on a transparent support, processing the exposed color photosensitive material at a processing temperature of 50° C. or more to form a silver image, and substantially reading the silver image.

Abstract: To provide a novel compound having sufficiently high fastness to light, heat, humidity and active gas in the environment and a coloring composition using the compound, particularly, an ink for ink jet recording, an ink jet recording method and a method for improving the preservability of formed image, which can form an image having high fastness to light and ozone gas in the environment. A phthalocyanine dye mixture having a specific structure and an ink, an ink for ink jet recording, an ink jet recording method and a method for improving the preservability of formed image, using the phthalocyanine dye mixture.

Abstract: An ink set having a yellow ink containing at least one yellow dye, a magenta ink containing at least one magenta dye, and a cyan ink containing at least one cyan dye, wherein an oxidation potential of the magenta dye and an oxidation potential of the cyan dye are each higher than 0.8 V (vs SCE), and an inkjet recording method using the ink set.

Abstract: The following 4,4?-bis(1,3,5-triazinylamino)stilbene-2,2?-disulfonic acid derivative is well soluble in water: in which each of R11 and R12 is hydrogen, or a specifically substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; each of R21 and R22 is hydrogen, a specifically substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a specifically substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; M is hydrogen, alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium, or pyridinium.

Abstract: An optical filter comprises a transparent support and a filter layer. The filter layer contains a dye and a binder polymer. The dye is in an aggregated form exhibiting an absorption maximum in the wavelength region of 750 to 1,100 nm. The support, the filter layer or an optional layer contains an ultraviolet absorbing agent represented by the formula (I), (II), (III) or the like.

Abstract: To provide an aqueous ink, particularly, an inkjet recording ink, and an inkjet recording method, which can form an image having good color hue and excellent fastness to light and active gases in the environment, particularly, ozone gas, the aqueous ink has a polyazo dye containing at least two azo groups, an ionic hydrophilic group, and a sulfur-containing 5-membered heterocyclic group; and an inkjet recording ink and an inkjet recording method each using the aqueous ink.

Abstract: An ink containing a phthalocyanine compound represented by the formula (I): wherein X1 to X4, Y1 to Y4, A1 to A4, and M are defined herein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material having a support, at least one photosensitive layer containing a silver halide and a reducing agent and a non-photosensitive layer containing aggregates of a dye, wherein a transmission absorption spectrum of the aggregates has a maximum absorption wavelength within the range of 600-750 nm. The photothermographic material is easy to handle and provide an image having sufficient definition without residual color after development. The photothermographic material is suitable for light exposure with a red laser.

Abstract: An ink-jet ink containing a colorless, water-soluble, planar compound having more than ten delocalized pi-electrons per molecule.

Abstract: An ink containing at least one dye represented by formula (1): wherein R1, R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a monovalent group; Z is a nitrogen atom, or a carbon atom to which a hydrogen atom or a monovalent group is bonded; and at least one of R1, R2, R3, and the monovalent group that Z has is a substituent having a heterocyclic group substituted with an azo group.