An ink contains water, a coloring material, a resin, two or more types of organic solvents, and a surfactant, wherein the ink is horizontally discharged to a substrate.

An ink jet ink composition is a water-based ink which contains a colorant; inorganic oxide particles; a watersoluble silicate; and water, and a content of the watersoluble silicate with respect to a total mass of the ink is 0.5 percent by mass or less.

A recording method is a method including an adhesion step of adhering an ink composition to a recording medium, in which the recording medium is a low-absorbing recording medium or a non-absorbing recording medium, the adhesion step is performed by scanning that is carried out by jetting the ink composition from an ink jet head to make the ink composition adhere to the recording medium while moving relative positions of the ink jet head and the recording medium, the scanning is performed seven times or less on an identical region of the recording medium, the ink composition is an aqueous ink containing a coloring material and a silicone-based surfactant A, and a maximum peak of the silicone-based surfactant A in a molecular weight range of 300 or greater is present in a range of 3000 to 20000 in a molecular weight distribution obtained by gel permeation chromatography.

A system for applying a coating composition is provided herein. The system includes a first high transfer efficiency applicator defining a first nozzle orifice and a second high transfer efficiency applicator defining a second nozzle orifice. The system further includes a reservoir. The system further includes a substrate defining a first target area and a second target area. The first high transfer efficiency applicator and the second high transfer efficiency applicator are configured to receive the coating composition from the reservoir and configured to expel the coating composition through the first nozzle orifice to the first target area of the substrate and to expel the coating composition through the second nozzle orifice to the second target area of the substrate.

A conductive ink jet printing ink composition is provided comprising the following components: (a) 60-84.5 wt.-% of an organic solvent or a mixture of organic solvents, (b) 0.5-5 wt.-% of a binder, wherein the binder comprises ethyl cellulose in an amount of a range of 85 to 100 wt.-%, based on the total amount of the binder, (c) 15-25 wt.-% of silver particles having a d50-value in a range of 130 nm to 800 nm, (d) optionally antioxidizing agents, (e) optionally a dispersing agent for the silver particles different from binder (b), wherein all amounts are referred to the total amount of the ink jet printing ink composition, if not defined otherwise.

An ink set including an aqueous inkjet ink composition and a primer composition. The aqueous inkjet ink composition contains a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a resin emulsion, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, and water; the resin emulsion contains a polyurethane resin emulsion and/or a polyolefin resin emulsion; the surfactant contains an alkyl sulfonate and/or a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate; the aqueous inkjet ink composition has a content of the alkyl sulfonate and/or the polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.5% by mass or less; and the primer composition contains an aggregation accelerator that accelerates aggregation of the aqueous inkjet ink composition. The ink set provides a printed matter having good print image quality and excellent abrasion resistance, and has good storage stability and ejection stability.

A manufacturing method of decorative laminates includes the steps of: a) printing an ink acceptance layer by jetting droplets having a volume of 1 to 200 nL onto a paper substrate; b) forming a decorative layer by jetting ink droplets having a volume of up to 30 pL of one or more aqueous pigmented inkjet inks onto the dried ink acceptance layer; and c) heat pressing the decorative layer into a decorative laminate; wherein the ink acceptance layer contains an inorganic pigment P and a polymeric binder B in a weight ratio P/B larger than 1.5.

An aqueous dispersion of a capsule is composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core, the core containing an oligomeric blocked isocyanate characterized in that the blocked isocyanate is derived from a di-, tri- or tetrafunctional isocyanate terminated oligomer selected from the group of an isocyanate terminated oligo-ether, an isocyanate terminated oligo-ester, an isocyanate terminated oligo-carbonate, an isocyanate terminated butadiene oligomer, an isocyanate terminated hydrogenated butadiene, an isocyanate terminated isoprene oligomer, an isocyanate terminated silicone and combinations thereof. The dispersion is suitable for pre-treatment liquids and inkjet inks in textile printing.

To provide an image forming method, including applying a pre-treatment liquid on a recording medium including a substrate and a coating layer at least on one surface of the substrate, wherein the pre-treatment liquid is applied on a surface of the recording layer with the coating layer; drying the recording medium on which the pre-treatment liquid has been applied; and forming an image on the recording medium after drying by discharging a water-based ink by inkjet method, wherein the pre-treatment liquid includes a water-soluble cationic polymer, an ammonium salt of an organic acid and water, and wherein the water-based ink includes water and negatively charged colored particles including a colorant.

A fluid set can include an ink composition having an acidic pH and a crosslinker composition having a basic pH from pH 8 to pH 10. The ink composition can include from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 1 wt % to 6 wt % pigment, a sulfonated dispersant, and an acrylic polymer binder. The crosslinker composition can include from 70 wt % to 95 wt % water, from 1 wt % to 25 wt % organic co-solvent, and from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % polycarbodiimide.