Provided are an ink for ink jet recording, including a pigment, a water-soluble polymer for dispersing the pigment, an alkali metal salt, and a water-soluble organic solvent, in which a ratio of a content of the water-soluble polymer to a total mass of the alkali metal salt is 15 or less, and a content of the water-soluble organic solvent with respect to a total mass of the ink for ink jet recording is 18% by mass or less; a method for producing an ink for ink jet recording; and an image recording method.

Described herein are aqueous coating compositions including at least one dispersion of core/shell particles containing a polyurethane resin as core portion and a crosslinked acrylic resin as shell portion and at least one aqueous polyurethane-polyurea dispersion containing crosslinked polyurethane-polyurea particles. Also described herein is a method for forming a multilayer coating on a substrate using the aqueous coating compositions as basecoat compositions. Also described herein is a multicoat paint system produced by the method.

A method of producing an image recorded material is a method including an image recording of sequentially applying a pretreatment liquid containing an aggregating agent, a first ink containing a first resin, and a second ink containing a second resin onto an impermeable base material to record an image, in which in the image recording, the image is recorded under a condition in which a ratio of a total applied mass of the first resin and the second resin per unit area to an applied mass of the aggregating agent per unit area in an overlapping region formed such that a region where the pretreatment liquid is applied, a region where the first ink is applied, and a region where the second ink is applied overlap each other in plan view is generated is 16.0 or greater and 30.0 or less.

A dye ink composition includes: a coloring agent, water, and a compound represented by the general formula (III) as defined herein, in which the coloring agent contains at least one dye selected from the group consisting of a dye represented by the general formula (I) as defined herein and a dye represented by the general formula (II) as defined herein.

An inkjet ink for an impermeable base material includes water, a resin-coated pigment in which at least a part of the pigment is coated with a crosslinked resin, a solvent A which is an alkanediol compound having a boiling point of 180° C. to 200° C., and a solvent B which is at least one of a monoalcohol compound having a boiling point of 70° C. to 160° C. or a glycol monoether compound having a boiling point of 70° C. to 160° C. An image recording method includes applying of the inkjet ink for an impermeable base material to record an image.

An ink set includes an inkjet ink and a recording head filling liquid. The inkjet ink contains a pigment, a pigment covering resin, and water. The recording head filling liquid contains polyethylene glycol, a nonionic surfactant, and water. The recording head filling liquid has a viscosity of at least 3 mPa.Math.s and no greater than 10 mPa.Math.s. The polyethylene glycol has a mass average molecular weight of at least 170 and no greater than 300. A percentage content of the polyethylene glycol in the recording head filling liquid is at least 7.0% by mass and no greater than 55.0% by mass. The pigment covering resin includes a styrene-acrylic resin.

Provided are an ink composition, comprising greater than 0.2% by weight a graphene quantum dot nanosurfactant, a printable material, and a solvent, wherein the printable material is dispersed in the solvent by the graphene quantum dot nanosurfactant, and a method of preparing an ink composition. Advantageously, the present ink composition may be printed onto 2D and 3D substrates to form printed films with improved mechanical stability and photoconductance.

A pigmented aqueous inkjet ink set for manufacturing decorative panels includes a cyan aqueous inkjet ink containing a copper phthalocyanine pigment; a red aqueous inkjet ink containing a red pigment selected from the group consisting of C.I. Pigment Red 254, C.I. Pigment Red 122, C.I. Pigment Red 176 and mixed crystals thereof; a yellow aqueous inkjet ink containing a pigment C.I Pigment Yellow 150 or a mixed crystal thereof; and a black aqueous inkjet ink containing a carbon black pigment, wherein the aqueous inkjet inks contain a surfactant. An inkjet printing method for manufacturing decorative panels is also disclosed.

Embodiments of the invention relate to ink compositions suitable for applications in the printing industry, for example continuous inkjet printing, including ultra-high speed continuous inkjet printing. The ink compositions use volatile organic solvents, a colorant, and one or more binder resins including a resin that is a phenolic resole resin, wherein the ink composition is free of methanol, halogens, halogenated compounds and bisphenol-A. A phenolic resole resin of the ink composition preferably contains less than 0.1% by weight of free formaldehyde. The one or more binder resins including the phenolic resole resin may be present in an amount that is from about 5% to about 30% by weight of the ink composition.

Provided is a composition including an acrylamide compound having a molecular weight of 150 or greater but 250 or less (A1), and a monomer having a cyclic structure represented by General Formula (3) below, or General Formula (4) below, or both (A2), ##STR00001##
where, in General Formulae (3) and (4), L is a single bond or a straight chain or branched alkylene group that has from 1 through 10 carbon atoms and may include an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, or a sulfur atom; A is a cyclic structure that has from 2 through 10 carbon atoms and may include an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, or a sulfur atom; R.sup.6 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 are each a straight chain or branched alkyl group having from 1 through 10 carbon atoms.