A platelet-shaped magnetic effect pigment is provided for use in a printing ink, and includes a layer construction with a magnetic layer and at least one optical functional layer, such that the magnetic layer is based on a magnetic material having a column-shaped nanostructure and the magnetic columns respectively have a largely uniform preferential magnetic direction deviating from the platelet plane.

An active-energy-ray-curable composition includes at least two or more kinds of polymerizable monomers (A), where a homopolymer of each of the polymerizable monomers (A) has a glass transition temperature of 80 degrees Celsius or more. The polymerizable monomers (A) have a polymerizable monomer (A1) where a homopolymer of the polymerizable monomer (A1) has an SP value of 10.8 or more but 12.2 or less determined by Fedors method. An amount of the polymerizable monomer (A1) is 3% by mass or more but 20% by mass or less relative to a total amount of the active-energy-ray-curable composition.

Provided herein is a method for forming an image on a dyed synthetic fabric, using a dye-discharge agent, the method is effected by printing an ink composition on the fabric and applying a dye-discharge agent essentially on the same area of the ink composition, wherein applying the dye-discharge agent is effected while the ink composition is still wet (uncured), prior to a curing of the image, and followed by curing the fully formed image, whereas the dye-discharge agent discharged the dye that migrated during the curing step, but not the dyed fabric.

Provided are an ink jet recording ink containing a squarylium dye represented by Formula 1, polymerizable compounds, a dispersant, and a synergist having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a carboxy group and a sulfo group and at least one ring selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring and a heteroaromatic ring, and an image recording method:

##STR00001## in Formula 1, a ring A and a ring B each independently represent an aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ring, X.sup.A and X.sup.B each independently represent a monovalent substituent, G.sup.A and G.sup.B each independently represent a monovalent substituent, kA represents an integer of 0 to nA, and kB represents an integer of 0 to nB. nA represents the maximum number of G.sup.As capable of being bonded to the ring A, and nB represents the maximum number of G.sup.Bs capable of being bonded to the ring B.

Provided is an active energy ray-curable aqueous ink which contains water and a curable substance and curable by an active energy ray. The curable substance contains a bifunctional polymerizable monomer represented by the following General Formula (1):

##STR00001## wherein, R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R.sub.2 is a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and L is a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group which may contain an ether bond, an amide bond, a carbonyl bond, a sulfone bond or a sulfonamide bond.

An inkjet printing method may includes a dot pattern printing process of printing a dot pattern group by discharging ink at a preset position of a surface of an object using a nozzle group for forming a dot pattern so that dropped droplets are not in overlap with each other, a connection pattern printing process of printing a connection pattern group by discharging ink at a position between neighboring patterns using a nozzle group for forming a connection pattern so that the same attractive force acts to the neighboring patterns dropped on the surface of the object, and a finishing printing process of finishing a coating of the surface of the object by discharging ink to an area except for neighboring dropped droplets using a nozzle group for finishing so that the same attractive force act to the dropped droplets that are dropped on the surface of the object.

A liquid composition contains a coloring material, an organic solvent, a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 below, a resin, and water, wherein the contact angle of water against a liquid composition film formed by attaching the liquid composition to a non-permeable printing medium is 60 degrees or less,

##STR00001## where n represents an integer of from 4 to 10.

The present invention provides a precoating agent which is used in an image forming method using an active ray curable ink and which is applied to a surface of a recording medium before the active ray curable ink is applied, the precoating agent comprising a crystalline resin and an active ray polymerizable compound.

A multi-fluid kit for textile printing includes an inkjet ink and a fixer fluid. The inkjet ink includes a self-crosslinked polyurethane binder particle including a polyurethane polymer with a polymerized carboxylate-based diol and a polymerized sulfonated diamine, a pigment, and an ink aqueous vehicle; and a fixer fluid includes an azetidinium-containing polyamine, and a fixer aqueous vehicle.

The active energy ray-curable liquid composition according to the present disclosure is an active energy ray-curable liquid composition that contains water and a curable substance and is curable with an active energy ray, in which the curable substance contains a monofunctional polymerizable monomer having a structure represented by the Formula (1);

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in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a saturated hydrocarbon group, R2 represents a saturated hydrocarbon group that has at least one of a hydroxyl group or an amide bond and may contain a heteroatom, R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R1 and R2 may be bonded together to form an aliphatic heterocycle together with a nitrogen atom substituted with R1 and R2 in a case where R1 represents a saturated hydrocarbon group, and a total number of carbon atoms of the saturated hydrocarbon groups represented by R1 and R2 is 5 or more.