A copolymer useful as an ingredient of a colored resin composition, comprising a structural unit derived from an aromatic carboxylic acid having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a structural unit (Ab) represented by formula (Z), and a structural unit (Ac) derived from an unsaturated compound having a cyclic ether structure having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, wherein L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, A represents a phenyl group optionally having a substituent other than a carboxy group or a naphthyl group optionally having a substituent other than a carboxy group, R.sup.a represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and a hydrogen atom contained in the alkyl group is optionally replaced by a hydroxy group.

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An object to be achieved by the present, invention is to provide a quinacridone pigment having hue that is yellowish and clear and having excellent storage stability, wherein the quinacridone pigment can be advantageously used in an ink-jet ink and the like. Provided is a quinacridone solid solution pigment comprising at least C. I. Pigment Violet 19 and C. I. Pigment Red 122, wherein the ratio of a diffraction peak intensity at a diffraction angle 2 of 14.80.2 to a diffraction peak intensity at a diffraction angle 2 of 11.90.2 is 1.20 or less, as measured by X-ray diffractometry with respect to the quinacridone solid solution pigment.

A thermal transfer recording sheet including a substrate and a yellow coloring material layer, a magenta coloring material layer, and a cyan coloring material layer frame-sequentially formed on the substrate, wherein at least one of the yellow coloring material layer, the magenta coloring material layer, and the cyan coloring material layer contains a compound with a specified structure.

The present application relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two constituents: at least one chromophore constituent and at least one polymeric constituent. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by the polymeric component comprising at least two repeating glycerol units. This disclosure also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.

Provided is a colored resin composition excellent in storage stability. The colored resin composition according to the present invention is a colored resin composition comprising a colorant, a resin and a solvent, the colorant comprising a dye, the solvent comprising a first solvent which is propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate, and a second solvent which is a ketone having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and the ketone being a chain or branched saturated ketone comprising only an oxygen atom of a carbonyl group as a heteroatom.

Provided is a near-infrared ray absorbing composition containing at least a near-infrared absorber, a metal compound, and a solvent, wherein the near-infrared absorber contains a metal ion, and the metal compound is a compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (I), Formula (II), or Formula (III),

M(OR.sub.1).sub.nFormula (I):

M.sup.n+(OR.sub.2O.sup.).sub.nFormula (II):

(OR.sub.3).sub.n-mM.sup.n+(.sup.OCOR.sub.4).sub.m,Formula (III): in the above Formulas (I), (II), and (III), M represents at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconia, and aluminum; when M represents titanium or zirconia, n=4, m=1, 2, 3, or 4; when M represents aluminum, n=3, m=1, 2, or 3; R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 may further have a substituent.

A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes: water; a solid solution pigment composed of at least a first pigment and a second pigment; and a non-solid solution pigment which is the same as the first pigment. An image L*.sub.60 of the first pigment has the highest chromaticness C* among those of pigments composing the solid solution pigment, the image L*.sub.60 having lightness L* which is closest to 60 among a plurality of solid images recorded on a recording paper by using one of aqueous dispersions containing the pigments composing the solid solution pigment at a same solid content concentration, respectively, while changing recording duty at every 5% in a range of 0% to 100%.

The present invention provides a color photoresist composition, including: 5-8 parts by weight of a pigment; 5-8 parts by weight of an alkali soluble resin; 5-8 parts by weight of a phthalocyanine semi-sandwich dye; 0.2-0.6 parts by weight of a photoinitiator; 70-85 parts by weight of a photoresist solvent; and 0.1-0.2 parts by weight of an additive.

The present invention provides a color photoresist composition, based on 100 parts by weight of the color photoresist composition, including: 5-10 parts by weight of a pigment dispersion; 5-8 parts by weight of a binder resin; 5-8 parts by weight of a sandwich type phthalocyanine compound dye; 0.3-0.8 parts by weight of a photoinitiator; 70-85 parts by weight of a photoresist solvent; and 0.1-0.2 parts by weight of an additive.

The invention relates to a security pigment of core-shell particles, comprising a core based on a thermoplastic material, a shell based on a condensation polymer, and an organic or metalorganic feature substance present in dissolved or finely distributed form in the core, wherein the mass fraction of the shell amounts to more than 25%, preferably 50%, particularly more than 100%, in relation to the mass of the core. The invention further relates to a method for producing the core-shell particles and to value documents having the core-shell particles.