An image formation device includes a mixer, a fluid ejection device, and a liquid removal element. The mixer is to receive a first ink mixture of ink particles within a first non-aqueous liquid carrier in a first concentration, to receive a second non-aqueous liquid carrier, and to form a second ink mixture of the ink particles within both the first and second liquid carriers in a second concentration less than the first concentration. The fluid ejection device is to receive the second ink mixture and to deposit droplets of the second ink mixture onto a substrate to at least partially form an image via the ink particles. The liquid removal element is to remove the respective liquid carriers from the substrate to provide at least a portion of the second liquid carrier at the mixer to form part of the second ink mixture.

To provide a trivalent chromium plating film, in which the generation of cracks penetrating from the film surface to a substrate interface is suppressed, and a sliding member coated with the trivalent chromium plating film, plating is conducted with a chromium plating bath containing trivalent chromium as a chromium source, with a second phase dispersed in a planar and/or fibrous form, such that the second phase in a planar and/or fibrous form is dispersed in the hard chromium plating film to prevent or deflect the propagation of cracks, and to suppress the increase of the crack width, thereby suppressing the propagation of cracks in the hard chromium plating film.

An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a first electrification adjuster and a second electrification adjuster. The first electrification adjuster disposed to face the recording material to be conveyed supplies a charge with one polarity. The second electrification adjuster disposed downstream the first electrification adjuster in the conveying direction to face the recording material supplies the charge with opposite polarity to that of the charge supplied by the first electrification adjuster so that the ink-jet image is formed at the downstream side of the electrification adjuster.

An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a first electrification adjuster and a second electrification adjuster. The first electrification adjuster disposed to face the recording material to be conveyed supplies a charge with one polarity. The second electrification adjuster disposed downstream the first electrification adjuster in the conveying direction to face the recording material supplies the charge with opposite polarity to that of the charge supplied by the first electrification adjuster so that the ink-jet image is formed at the downstream side of the electrification adjuster.

The present invention relates to an N,N-diurea derivative represented by the following general formula (1) and a method for producing the same. In addition, the present invention relates to a thermosensitive recording material in which a thermosensitive recording layer including a basic dye which is colorless or lightly colored at room temperature and a developer capable of developing color upon contact with the basic dye by heating is provided on a base sheet, wherein the developer is the N,N-diurea derivative represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR00001## (wherein R2 is an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group; and A1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group).

An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a first electrification adjuster and a second electrification adjuster. The first electrification adjuster disposed to face the recording material to be conveyed supplies a charge with one polarity. The second electrification adjuster disposed downstream the first electrification adjuster in the conveying direction to face the recording material supplies the charge with opposite polarity to that of the charge supplied by the first electrification adjuster so that the ink-jet image is formed at the downstream side of the electrification adjuster.

An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a first electrification adjuster and a second electrification adjuster. The first electrification adjuster disposed to face the recording material to be conveyed supplies a charge with one polarity. The second electrification adjuster disposed downstream the first electrification adjuster in the conveying direction to face the recording material supplies the charge with opposite polarity to that of the charge supplied by the first electrification adjuster so that the ink-jet image is formed at the downstream side of the electrification adjuster.

A digital printing process that applies a liquid radiation curable primer containing 20 to 80% of at least one acrylate functional monomer and 20 to 60% of at least one thermoplastic polyurethane polymer onto a surface of a flat web or sheet substrate; cures the primer by UV or EB irradiation to give a dry, tack-free surface; and then uses a digital printing press that uses a liquid-toner-based electrographic imaging process with a press blanket to transfer a printed image from the press blanket to the cured-primer coated substrate. The resulting printed web or sheet may have a dry, tack-free semi-interpenetrating polymer network layer adjacent the printed image.

A digital printing process that applies a liquid radiation curable primer containing 20 to 80% of at least one acrylate functional monomer and 20 to 60% of at least one thermoplastic polyurethane polymer onto a surface of a flat web or sheet substrate; cures the primer by UV or EB irradiation to give a dry, tack-free surface; and then uses a digital printing press that uses a liquid-toner-based electrographic imaging process with a press blanket to transfer a printed image from the press blanket to the cured-primer coated substrate. The resulting printed web or sheet may have a dry, tack-free semi-interpenetrating polymer network layer adjacent the printed image.

A thread gauge, which allows to reliably know the time for replacement by visual checking and improves the predetermined dimensional accuracy of a thread product has a go-side thread measuring portion extending from one side of a shank portion coaxially with the shank portion or a not-go-side thread measuring portion extending from an other side of the shank portion coaxially with the shank portion, a wear checking gauge line having a predetermined length and a predetermined depth formed on male thread portions and female thread portions formed on the go-side thread measuring portion or the not-go-side thread measuring portion.