Abstract: A drying device includes one or more first heating bodies configured to heat a drying target object conveyed with liquid applied on the drying target object, and a second heating body configured to heat the drying target object after the drying target object is heated by the one or more first heating bodies. The one or more first heating bodies include at least one heating body configured to heat the drying target object at a heating temperature greater than a heating temperature of the second heating body.

Abstract: An ink and processing liquid set contains a processing liquid to be applied to a recording medium, the processing liquid including a multivalent metal salt and an ink to be applied to an area of the recording medium where the processing liquid has been applied, the ink including a urethane resin, a styrene-acrylic resin, and a pigment, wherein the following relations are satisfied: 0.5?B/C?0.7, where B represents a static surface tension of the ink and C represents a static surface tension of the processing liquid; and 0.5?E/D?0.9, and 35 (mN/m)?E?55 (mN/m), where D represents a dynamic surface tension at 15 ms of the processing liquid and E represents a dynamic surface tension at 1500 ms of the processing liquid.

Abstract: A laminate includes a substrate, a decorative base sheet, a print layer containing an alcohol having a boiling point of 180 degrees C. or higher, and a cross-linked resin. The cross-linked resin is obtained in such a manner that the resin contained in the decorative base sheet or an overlay layer forms a cross-linked structure using the alcohol contained in the print layer as the cross-linking component.

Abstract: Ink includes water, a coloring material, and a copolymer including a first structure unit represented by the following Chemical formula 1 and a second structure unit including an anionic group. In the Chemical formula, R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X represents an alkylene group having 2-4 carbon atoms, and Y represents a substituted or non-substituted straight-chain alkylene group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A drying device includes a drier, a gas circulator, and a concentration adjuster. The drier warms a liquid composition on a drying target object. The gas circulator circulates a gas containing a volatile component of an organic solvent warmed and volatilized by the drier to reuse the gas for drying. The concentration adjuster adjusts a concentration of the volatile component reused.

Abstract: A drying device includes heaters disposed along the direction of conveyance of a recording medium to which liquid is applied, the heaters being configured to heat the recording medium, wherein the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters on a conveyance path including a first path on which the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters for the second time and a second path on which the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters for the second time, wherein a dried film of the liquid formed by the following method has a Martens hardness of 30 N/mm2 or greater at 120 degrees C.: method: the liquid is applied to a glass plate to form a film and the film is dried with a reduced pressure at 100 degrees C. for three hours to obtain the dried film having an average thickness of 5 ?m.

Abstract: A drying device includes one or more first heating bodies configured to heat a drying target object conveyed with liquid applied on the drying target object, and a second heating body configured to heat the drying target object after the drying target object is heated by the one or more first heating bodies. The one or more first heating bodies include at least one heating body configured to heat the drying target object at a heating temperature greater than a heating temperature of the second heating body.

Abstract: A drying device includes a drier, a gas circulator, and a concentration adjuster. The drier warms a liquid composition on a drying target object. The gas circulator circulates a gas containing a volatile component of an organic solvent warmed and volatilized by the drier to reuse the gas for drying. The concentration adjuster adjusts a concentration of the volatile component reused.

Abstract: An ink and processing liquid set contains a processing liquid to be applied to a recording medium, the processing liquid comprising a multivalent metal salt and an ink to be applied to an area of the recording medium where the processing liquid has been applied, the ink comprising a urethane resin, a styrene-acrylic resin, and a pigment, wherein the following relations are satisfied: 0.5?B/C?0.7, where B represents a static surface tension of the ink and C represents a static surface tension of the processing liquid; and 0.5?E/D?0.9, and 35 (mN/m)?E?55 (mN/m), where D represents a dynamic surface tension at 15 ms of the processing liquid and E represents a dynamic surface tension at 1500 ms of the processing liquid.

Abstract: A copolymer including a structural unit represented by General Formula (1) below, and a structural unit represented by General Formula (2) below, where, in General Formula (1), R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, L1 is an alkylene group having 2 or greater carbon atoms but 5 or less carbon atoms, and X is a hydrogen atom or a cation, where, in General Formula (2), R2 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and L2 is an alkylene group having 2 or greater carbon atoms but 18 or less carbon atoms.

Abstract: Ink includes water, a coloring material, and a copolymer including a first structure unit represented by the following Chemical formula 1 and a second structure unit including an anionic group. In the Chemical formula, R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X represents an alkylene group having 2-4 carbon atoms, and Y represents a substituted or non-substituted straight-chain alkylene group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An ink includes a pigment, a wax, a water soluble solvent including a solvent having an SP value of from 9.0 to 11.0, and water, wherein the mass ratio of the content of the wax in the ink to the content of the solvent having an SP value of from 9.0 to 11.0 is in a range of from 1.0:2.5 to 1.0:25.0.

Abstract: Provided is an ink containing water, a coloring material, and a copolymer, wherein the copolymer contains a structural unit represented by any one of general formulae (1a), (1b), and (1c) below and a structural unit containing an anionic group, where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, a represents an integer of from 6 through 10, and b represents an integer of 0 or 1, where R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, c represents an integer of 3 or 4, and d represents an integer of 0 or 1, where R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and e represents an integer of from 2 through 10.

Abstract: A drying device includes heaters disposed along the direction of conveyance of a recording medium to which liquid is applied, the heaters being configured to heat the recording medium, wherein the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters on a conveyance path including a first path on which the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters for the second time and a second path on which the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters for the second time, wherein a dried film of the liquid formed by the following method has a Martens hardness of 30 N/mm2 or greater at 120 degrees C.: method: the liquid is applied to a glass plate to form a film and the film is dried with a reduced pressure at 100 degrees C. for three hours to obtain the dried film having an average thickness of 5 ?m.

Abstract: Ink includes water, a coloring material, and a copolymer including a first structure unit represented by the following Chemical formula 1 and a second structure unit including an anionic group. In the Chemical formula, R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X represents an alkylene group having 2-4 carbon atoms, and Y represents a substituted or non-substituted straight-chain alkylene group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An ink discharge device including an ink, an ink discharge head, and a negative pressure generator is provided. The ink comprises water, a colorant, an organic solvent X having a solubility parameter of from 8.9 to 12.0 and comprising no glycol ether compound, and a copolymer comprising a structural unit represented by the following formula (1): where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group and Y represents an alkylene group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms. The ink discharge head includes a nozzle to discharge the ink, a plurality of individual liquid chambers in communication with the nozzle, a flow-in channel to let the ink flow into the individual liquid chambers, and a flow-out channel to let the ink flow out from the individual liquid chambers. The negative pressure generator is configured to generate a negative pressure that lets the ink flow out from the individual liquid chambers.

Abstract: To provide a copolymer including: a structural unit represented by the following General Formula (1) where X represents a hydrogen atom or a cation; a structural unit expressed by the following Structural Formula (1); and a structural unit represented by the following General Formula (2) where R is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, L is a single bond or —(CH2)n—O—CO— where n is an integer in a range of from 2 through 18, and a carbonyl carbon atom in the —(CH2)n—O—CO— is bound to naphthyl.

Abstract: An ink is provided. The ink includes a quinacridone pigment and an organic solvent having a solubility parameter of from 9.00 to 11.80 in an amount of from 30% to 60% by mass of total mass of the ink. Both a viscosity change rate and a particle diameter change rate of the ink, before and after the ink is heated at 80° C. for 4 weeks in a sealed state, are in the range of from ?5% to 1%.

Abstract: An ink includes a pigment a quinacridone compound represented by Chemical formula 1, and a copolymer including the structure unit represented by Chemical formula 2 or Chemical formula 3. In Chemical formula 1, R1, R2, R3, and R4 each, independently represent hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, or alkyl groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, R5, R6, and R7 each, independently represent alkyl groups having 1-4 carbon atoms or alkylene groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, and m represents 1 or 2, In Chemical formula 2, R8 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and L1 represents an alkylene group having 2-16 carbon atoms, In Chemical formula 3, R9 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, L2 represents a single bond or —(CH2)n—O— and n represents an integer of 2-16.

Abstract: Provided is an ink containing a copper phthalocyanine pigment, wherein an absorbance ratio (Y/X) of a local minimum absorbance Y of the ink in a wavelength range of from 665 nm through 675 nm to a local maximum absorbance X of the ink in a wavelength range of from 610 nm through 620 nm is 0.660 or greater but 0.740 or less.