Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous writing ink composition capable of forming handwriting having both opacity and transparency, also a writing implement using the composition, and further a process for producing the composition. The aqueous writing ink composition according to the present invention comprises a white pigment, resin particles containing styrene-acrylonitrile, a colorant, and a polysaccharide. The content of the white pigment X %, that of the resin particles Y1% and that of the polysaccharide Y2% satisfy the conditions of 0.1?X?7,??[1] 0.5<(Y1+Y2)/X, and??[2] 10?2.5X+(Y1+Y2)?40.

Abstract: A sunshade includes a support frame and a canopy connected to the support frame and including a light-transmissible fabric sheet of undyed yarns that has opposite inner and outer surfaces, an ink layer formed on one of the inner and outer surfaces of the light-transmissible fabric sheet using dye-sublimation printing techniques, and an opaque enamel coating coated on the other of the inner and outer surfaces of the light-transmissible fabric sheet. The undyed yarns are woven and cross one another to form fabric pores thereamong. The opaque enamel coating fills the fabric pores. A method of preparing a canopy is disclosed.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a Composition having medicinal properties for use with mammalian diseases such as anti-cancer properties and methods of use, anti-viral properties and methods of use, anti-protozoan properties and methods of use, and anti-bacterial properties and methods of use in mammals. A chemical Composition for use as a pharmaceutical of a biologically acceptable copper compound and may include other components such as iron, which is transported to afflicted cells in a pharmaceutical acceptable carrier.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an ink composition for inkjet recording comprises a dispersion medium that contains water and glycol ether of which boiling point is equal to or greater than 220 degrees centigrade, a pigment and a core-shell particle that includes a core consisting of hydrophobic acrylic resin and a shell consisting of at least one of aqueous urethane resin and acrylic graft aqueous urethane resin.

Abstract: An image recording method includes an intermediate image-forming step of forming an intermediate image by applying an ink to an intermediate transfer body, a temperature adjusting step, and a transfer step of transferring the intermediate image onto a recording medium in this order. The ink contains polymer particles and a surfactant which is at least one selected from a compound represented by general formula (1) and a compound represented by general formula (2). In the temperature adjusting step, a temperature of the intermediate image is adjusted to a temperature higher than or equal to a minimum film-forming temperature of the polymer particles. A temperature of the intermediate image in the transfer step is lower than the minimum film-forming temperature of the polymer particles.

Abstract: An ink contains a colorant, a water soluble organic solvent, a silicone-based surfactant, a compound represented by the following chemical formula 1, and water, wherein the water soluble organic solvent having a boiling point of 250° C. or higher accounts for 38% by weight or less in a total amount of the water soluble organic solvent, where R11 and R12 each, independently represent aliphatic hydrocarbon groups having 3 to 6 carbon atoms with forks and R13 and R14 each, independently represent alkyl groups having one to two carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of from 1 to 6.

Abstract: An inkjet ink container is disclosed comprising a polymer compound comprising an oxygen scavenging composition. The oxygen scavenging composition is selected from the group consisting of copolymers of polycondensate segments and oxygen scavenging moiety segments; oxygen scavenging unsaturated polymers; oxygen scavenging dendrimers; molecular hydrogen generators; and combinations thereof.

Abstract: There is provided a water-based ink for ink-jet recording including: a colorant; water; glycerol; and at least one of raffinose and a derivative thereof in an amount ranging from more than 0% by weight to not more than 2% by weight with respect to an entire amount of the water-based ink. There is also provided a water-based ink for ink-jet recording including: a colorant; water; glycerol; diethylene glycol; and at least one of raffinose and a derivative thereof.

Abstract: An inkjet recording ink including: water; a first pigment dispersion; a second pigment dispersion; and a penetrating agent, wherein the first pigment dispersion includes oxidized carbon black CB-1 dispersed therein with a pH of the first pigment dispersion adjusted to 6 to 8 with an alkali metal hydroxide, where the oxidized carbon black CB-1 is oxidized with ozone and has a volatile content of 10% to 20% and a BET specific surface area of 90 m2/g to 150 m2/g, and the second pigment dispersion includes carbon black CB-2 dispersed therein with a naphthalene sulfonic acid-formalin condensate, where the carbon black CB-2 has an average particle diameter (D50) of 50 nm to 180 nm as measured by a dynamic light scattering method and a standard deviation of particle diameters of the carbon black CB-2 is equal to or lower than ½ of the average particle diameter.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides inkjet inks and associated methods and systems. In one example, an inkjet ink can comprise an ink vehicle and a colorant, wherein the ink vehicle includes an organic co-solvent, water, and from 0.0001 wt % to 0.1 wt % dextran based on the inkjet ink as a whole.

Abstract: An ink composition includes a first saccharide and a second saccharide. The first saccharide is a linear saccharide having 4 or more saccharide units and the second saccharide is at least one selected from the group consisting of trehalose, maltotriose, and a cyclic saccharide.

Abstract: An ink composition includes a slightly water-soluble alkanediol having 7 to 10 carbon atoms and cyclodextrin compound.

Abstract: An ink composition includes a cyclic saccharide and hydantoin or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to non-uniformly substituted (“blocky”) hydroxyethylcelluloses (HECs) and derivatives thereof that exhibit associative behavior in both neat solutions and in filled systems. The HECs and derivatives thereof exhibit unique and highly desirable rheology and are more efficient in thickening aqueous systems than prior art HEC products. These blocky HECs can be distinguished from prior art and commercial HEC products by having an unsubstituted anhydroglucose trimer ratio (U3R) greater than 0.21 and the hydroxyethyl molar substitution greater than about 1.3 and less than about 5. This invention also relates to processes for making blocky HEC and uses thereof in functional systems.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining an aqueous solution where divalent metal cations, a phthalocyanine compound modified with an anionic functional group, and G-quadruplex are dissolved, the method comprising step of: mixing the divalent metal cations, the phthalocyanine compound modified with the anionic functional group, and the G-quadruplex into water so as to dissolve the phthalocyanine compound in the water.

Abstract: Laundry treatment composition comprising a substituted cellulose having a degree of substitution, DS, of from 0.01 to 0.99 and a specific degree of blockiness, DB, such that either DS+DB is of at least 1 or DB+2DS?DS2 is of at least 1.20, and a laundry adjunct ingredient.

Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording having a main ink and a sub ink. The main ink includes at least one of a polysaccharide and a polysaccharide derivative. The sub ink includes enzyme degrading at least one of the polysaccharide and the said polysaccharide derivative in the main ink.

Abstract: When an image is formed by imparting aqueous ink discharged from a recording head onto a recording medium P, water content contained in the aqueous ink is evaporated by a heater to suppress curl generated in the recording medium P after the image formation. The aqueous ink contains at least 15% by weight of curl control agent, and the viscosity of the aqueous ink is lower than 4 cp. The viscosity is increased to suppress the curl generation by evaporating the water content contained in the aqueous ink imparted on the recording medium P after the image formation.

Abstract: A water based ink composition for a ballpoint pen containing ?-carrageenan in addition to a dye, water and a water-soluble organic solvent. When used in the ball point pen, the ink composition satisfies an ink drooling prevention and a drying resistance which are mutually incompatible functions and is excellent in writing performance regardless of containing a dye as a coloring agent. The ink composition (c) is used, for example, by accommodating a refill (12) whose ink accommodating tube (18) is filled with the ink composition and which is further loaded with an ink backflow-preventing member (20) in the ballpoint pen (10) whose writing edge is retracted and extruded from a front end opening of a barrel (21).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a time temperature indicator for indicating temperature change over time, comprising an immobilized enzyme and a substrate of the enzyme, wherein the reaction of the substrate catalyzed by the enzyme produces a reaction product in a time and temperature dependent manner and wherein the formation of the reaction product can be detected by monitoring a physical characteristic of the substrate and/or the product which is linked to its concentration. The invention further relates to a method of time temperature indication comprising the step of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction, a method of printing the enzyme-based time temperature indicator on a packaging material or a label, a printing ink or printing ink concentrate comprising components of the enzyme-based time temperature indicator and a packaging material or a label comprising the enzyme-based time temperature indicator.

Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording comprises a main ink and a sub ink. The main ink comprises at least one of a polysaccharide and a polysaccharide derivative. The sub ink comprises enzyme degrading at least one of the polysaccharide and the polysaccharide derivative comprised in the main ink.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording ink comprising water, a colorant and a surfactant, wherein a content of the surfactant is 0.3 mass % or more based on the whole mass of the ink, and the ink further comprises a sucrose compound represented by the formula (i) wherein R1 to R8 are individually selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl groups and alkylene oxide groups, with the proviso that at least one of R1 to R8 is an alkylene oxide group, the total number of alkylene oxide units possessed by the alkylene oxide group in a molecule is 1 to 20, and the proportion of an ethylene oxide unit to the total number of the alkylene oxide units in the molecule is 20.0% or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet liquid composition including chitosan and a non-volatile organic acid. The non-volatile organic acid preferably has two or more carboxyl groups and a cyclic structure other than an aromatic ring. Further, the invention provides an ink jet recording method of forming images on a recording medium surface by ejecting an ink and a liquid composition thereon so that the ink and the liquid are in contact with each other, wherein the ink contains a colorant, the liquid composition contains a component for coagulating the colorant, and the component for coagulating the colorant contains chitosan and a non-volatile organic acid.

Abstract: A no-mess water-based ink including a composition including water, an organic solvent, a coloring agent dissolved in the organic solvent, an emulsifier and a thickening agent for use in conjunction with a specially treated substrate containing a color developer.

Abstract: On a support, a porous resin layer which is opaque in a water-unabsorbed state and capable of turning transparent in a water-absorbed state is formed, and also a water-repellent resin layer is so provided as to exist in the porous resin layer at its some area or areas in a co-existent state, to make up a water-metachromatic laminate. A novel toy element can be provided in which latent images standing invisible in a normal condition are rendered visible by means of water as a medium so as to be visually distinguished.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an improved marking fluid that contains a sugar and/or a sugar alcohol, as well as methods for their manufacture.

Abstract: On a support, a porous resin layer which is opaque in a water-unabsorbed state and capable of turning transparent in a water-absorbed state is formed, and also a water-repellent resin layer is so provided as to exist in the porous resin layer at its some area or areas in a co-existent state, to make up a water-metachromatic laminate. A novel toy element can be provided in which latent images standing invisible in a normal condition are rendered visible by means of water as a medium so as to be visually distinguished.

Abstract: In a ball pen which is formed to have an ink-consumption value per unit area of 0.64 to 1.6 mg/cm2, the water content is adjusted in the range from 30.0 to 80.0 wt %, the content of a volatilization-inhibiting substance in the range from 0.1 to 10.0 wt % and the content of a hardly-volatile water-soluble liquid medium in the range from 1.0 to 40.0 wt % in the ink for a ball pen in order to achieve both the quick-drying property of the ink transferred onto the paper surface and the non-drying property of the point of the pen-tip and further a good writing feeling.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to ink-jet ink compositions, methods, and systems for reducing satellite spotting around a printed image. Specifically, an aqueous ink-jet ink composition exhibiting a reduction in aerosol formation during printing, comprises an effective amount of an ink vehicle; an effective amount of at least one ink colorant; and from 5 to 200 ppm of a high molecular weight polysaccharide.

Abstract: An ink jet ink composition includes a liquid vehicle, a colorant and at least one alkyl saccharide surfactant having at least one sugar moiety head and at least one alkyl chain tail.

Abstract: A water base erasable ink composition for use in marking pens which comprises 0.05-20% by weight of a colorant and 1-20% by weight of an oily material which is nonvolatile at normal temperatures (25° C.) and is dispersed in water, wherein the oily material has a viscosity of 5-40 mPa·s at 20° C. and is dispersed in water in the form of emulsion, and wherein the colorant is dispersed in the water with the aid of a polyvinyl alcohol resin as a dispersing agent which has a saponification degree of 70-85 mol % and of which aqueous solution of 4% concentration has a viscosity of 2-30 mPa·s at 20° C. in a weight ratio of the resin to the colorant of 0.5 to 5 and in an amount of 1 to 10% by weight based on the ink composition.

Abstract: An ink composition comprising water, a dye and at least one compound capable of including a dye therein, wherein the dye is dissolved or dispersed in an aqueous medium comprising the water.

Abstract: An ink jet composition includes a liquid vehicle, a colorant and at least one alkyl saccharide surfactant having at least one sugar moiety head and at least one alkyl chain tail.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an improved marking fluid that contains a sugar and/or a sugar alcohol, as well as methods for their manufacture.

Abstract: An ink for ink-jet recording which comprises (a) a coloring material, (b) a liquid medium, and (c) an ammonium salt of an acid having a methyl or methylene group and a carboxylic group, or an ammonium aldonate, or an ammonium salt of citric acid, to alleviate kogation of the ink-jet head heater having an outermost protecting layer containing at least one of a metal and a metal oxide.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for preparing a dispersion which comprises codispersing in an aqueous medium a sucrose derivative represented by the following general formula (1), wherein substituents X1 to X8, being the same or different, are represented by a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an acyl group, with the proviso that at least four of the X1 to X8 substituents are different from hydrogen and that the total sum of the carbon atoms of X1 to X8 substituents is at least sixteen; and a photographic compound represented by the following general formula (2), wherein R and R1 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkylene group, a heterocyclic group or an aryl group; R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group and R3 and R4 may be combined to form a 6-membered ring.

Abstract: Dye preparations comprising, based in each case on the weight of the preparation, from 0.1 to 30% by weight of one or more dyes from the class of the mono- or polyazo dyes containing no acidic groups, from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a dispersant based on an arylsulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate or from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a water-soluble dispersant based on alkoxylated phenols with or without water, and their use as inks in the inkjet process and for textile sublimation transfer printing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a jet ink composition suitable for printing watermarks on paper substrates. The jet ink composition comprises a solvent and a translucentizing agent. An example of a translucentizing agent is sucrose acetate isobutyrate. The present invention further provides a method of ink jet printing watermark on an object comprising projecting a stream of droplets of the ink composition and controlling the direction of the stream so that the droplets form the watermark on the object. The method of the present invention has the advantage that it provides high speed watermarking capability. The method provides a further advantage that it is economical in changing the design of watermarks. The method is versatile and allows changes in the design of watermarks to be incorporated readily.

Abstract: A water based ink composition for a writing instrument comprising at least a colorant, water and a liquid medium, wherein reduced maltooligosaccharide and/or reduced isomaltooligosaccharide are added in a proportion of 0.5 to 20% by weight based on the total amount of the ink composition.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to ink-jet ink compositions, methods, and systems for reducing satellite spotting around a printed image. Specifically, an aqueous ink-jet ink composition exhibiting a reduction in aerosol formation during printing, comprises an effective amount of an ink vehicle; an effective amount of at least one ink colorant; and from 5 to 200 ppm of a high molecular weight polysaccharide.

Abstract: An ink composition comprising water, a dye and at least one compound capable of including a dye therein, wherein the dye is dissolved or dispersed in an aqueous medium comprising the water.

Abstract: An ink is provided which is capable of giving higher density of the printed image and has improved color developability with the light fastness and image stability maintained, and suppressing occurrence of bleeding in color image formation. The ink contains a capsuled coloring material constituted of a water-insoluble coloring material and an organic polymer covering the coloring material, the capsuled coloring material containing the organic polymer at a content ranging from 1% by weight to 20% by weight.

Abstract: There is provided an ink composition which can realize good images, especially an ink composition which, when used in an ink jet recording method, can be stably ejected and can realize good image quality. The ink composition comprises: a colorant; water; a water soluble organic solvent; and a mixture of saccharides, wherein the mixture of saccharides comprises a monosaccharide and/or a derivative thereof, a disaccharide and/or a derivative thereof, and a tri or higher polysaccharide and/or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: In a ball pen which is formed to have an ink-consumption value per unit area of 0.64 to 1.6 mg/cm2, the water content is adjusted in the range from 30.0 to 80.0 wt %, the content of a volatilization-inhibiting substance in the range from 0.1 to 10.0 wt % and the content of a hardly-volatile water-soluble liquid medium in the range from 1.0 to 40.0 wt % in the ink for a ball pen in order to achieve both the quick-drying property of the ink transferred onto the paper surface and the non-drying property of the point of the pen-tip and further a good writing feeling.

Abstract: Provided is a water based ink composition for a ball point pen comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkylene oxide adduct of polyglycerin, an alkylene oxide adduct of glycerin and an alkylene oxide adduct of trimethylolpropane and further comprising a colorant, a white plastic pigment, a viscosity-controlling agent and water. The ink composition is excellent in a writing property as well as a coloring property of the drawn lines regardless of the kind of writing paper and is stable with the passage of time. In addition thereto, it provides the drawn lines with a color having the same color tone as that of the visual color when it is charged into an ink reservoir.

Abstract: Novel colored liquids such as inks for use in fiber-tip, felt-tip, ballpoint and fountain pens and in ink-jet printing. The colored liquids contain by volume (I) 17.3 to 23.8% of a base ink; (II) 39.7 to 52.9% of an aqueous dispersion of a thermoplastic and self-crosslinking acrylic polymer serving as a vehicle and UV filter; (III) 4.7 to 5.8% of ethanol; (IV) 20.6 to 21.7% of water; (V) 2.6 to 6.6% of a basic auxilliary; and (VI) 2.6 to 6.6% of maple syrup thickener.

Abstract: Disclosed are a cyan ink containing a copper phthalocyanine dye which can realize images much less susceptible to deterioration upon exposure to visible light, a yellow or magenta ink, to be used with a cyan ink containing a copper phthalocyanine dye, capable of realizing color images much less susceptible to deterioration upon exposure to visible light, and an ink set comprising at least a cyan ink, a yellow ink, and a magenta ink and capable of realizing color images much less susceptible to deterioration upon exposure to visible light. The copper phthalocyanine dye undergoes color change and fading upon exposure to visible light. This is considered attributable to deterioration and decomposition of the dye by photo-oxidation or photo-reduction.

Abstract: An ink for ink-jet recording which comprises (a) a coloring material, (b) a liquid medium, and (c) an ammonium salt of an acid having a methyl or methylene group and a carboxylic group, or an ammonium aldonate, or an ammonium salt of citric acid, to alleviate kogation of the ink-jet head heater having an outermost protecting layer containing at least one of a metal and a metal oxide.

Abstract: An aqueous ink for a ball-point pen which is stable over time and has high pigment dispersion stability, includes a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, xanthane gum of about 0.01 to about 0.2 wt. % and a sodium alginate of about 0.2 to about 0.6 wt. % of a total amount of the ink.

Abstract: There is provided an ink composition which can realize good images, especially an ink composition which, when used in an ink jet recording method, can be stably ejected and can realize good image quality. The ink composition comprises: a colorant; water; a water soluble organic solvent; and a mixture of saccharides, wherein the mixture of saccharides comprises a monosaccharide and/or a derivative thereof, a disaccharide and/or a derivative thereof, and a tri or higher polysaccharide and/or a derivative thereof.