A textile printing ink jet ink composition includes a dioxazine pigment, a resin particle, and a lubricant, wherein the content of the dioxazine pigment is 0.5 to 1.5 mass % based on the total amount of the ink composition.

A method for producing a halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment according to one embodiment includes a first step of obtaining a halogenated zinc phthalocyanine crude pigment by deposition by extracting a halogenated zinc phthalocyanine, which is synthesized by using a compound that generates an acid by reacting with water; and a second step of forming the halogenated zinc phthalocyanine crude pigment into a pigment.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method of efficiently producing a colorant that can be used for production of a pigment composition or an aqueous pigment dispersion with a small volume-average particle size of a dispersed substance and with fewer coarse particles. The inventor of the present invention has achieved the object by a method of producing a colorant that includes: step 1 of kneading a composition containing a pigment having a primary particle size of 100 nm or more, a liquid medium, and a water-soluble inorganic salt with a processing machine to produce a kneaded product containing a pigment having a primary particle size in a range of 10 nm or more and less than 100 nm; and step 2-1 of mixing the kneaded product, a resin having an anionic group, and a basic compound.

There is provided a novel halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment for a color filter, which can form a green color filter having excellent contrast and high luminance. A halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment for a color filter shows, in a Raman spectrum, a peak intensity of 3.0% or more at 716±2.2 cm.sup.−1 when a peak intensity at 650±10 cm.sup.−1 is regarded as 100%.

Aqueous pigment preparations contain at least one organic and/or inorganic pigment and/or filler, at least one dispersant of formula (I) or (II), or mixtures of dispersants of formulae (I) and (II), wherein n is an integer ≥1, z is an integer ≥1, R1 is an aliphatic, linear or branched hydrocarbon radical with 1 to 30 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom or the structural unit —O—X or the structural unit CH.sub.2—O—X, and the structural unit X of formula (III), wherein a is an integer from 1 to 50, b is an integer from 0 to 50, c is an integer from 1 to 100, m is an integer from 1 to 50, R2 is an aliphatic, linear or branched hydrocarbon radical with 1 to 30 carbon atoms, Y is hydrogen, SO.sub.3M, —SO.sub.2M, —PO.sub.3M.sub.2, —CH.sub.2COOM and M is hydrogen or a cation. Additional additives may be present.

Provided is an ink including: a pigment-containing matter containing a pigment; an organic solvent; water; and a compound represented by General Formula (1) below. A difference (Ra−R.sub.0) is 2.0 or less, where Ra is a distance between a Hansen solubility parameter of the organic solvent and a Hansen solubility parameter of the pigment-containing matter determined by a Hansen solubility sphere method, and R.sub.0 is an interaction radius of the pigment-containing matter determined by the Hansen solubility sphere method.

##STR00001##

In the General Formula (1), R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 or more but 5 or less carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 3 or more but 11 or less.

An aqueous ink jet composition includes a dye component composed of at least one of sublimation dyes and disperse dyes, polyester, 1-(hydroxyalkyl)-2-pyrrolidone, and water, wherein the content (mass %) of the polyester is 4.0 times or more and 300.0 times or less the content (mass %) of the dye component.

A usual ink composition can be expected to improve ink viscosity to a certain degree, but when used for a glycol ether-based ink recently required, an increase in viscosity in preparing the ink cannot be suppressed. In addition, there is unknown a copper phthalocyanine pigment composition which can satisfy both such an improvement in ink viscosity and resolubility as printability which is important for the glycol ether-based ink. In this situation, a problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a copper phthalocyanine pigment composition having low viscosity and excellent resolubility in a glycol ether-based ink. It was found that when a copper phthalocyanine pigment is combined with a specified copper phthalocyanine acid derivative, a pigment composition having significantly low viscosity when formed into a glycol ether-based ink, and good familiarity with the ink can be produced, leading to the achievement of the present invention.

The present invention relates to [1] a pigment water dispersion containing pigment-containing crosslinked polymer particles, in which a crosslinked polymer in the particles is a polymer that is crosslinked with a crosslinking agent represented by the general formula (1), and [2] a process for producing a pigment water dispersion containing pigment-containing crosslinked polymer particles, including the following steps (1) and (2): Step (1): subjecting a pigment mixture containing a pigment, a water-dispersible polymer and water to dispersion treatment, thereby obtaining an aqueous pigment dispersion solution containing pigment-containing polymer particles; and Step (2): mixing the aqueous pigment dispersion solution obtained in the step (1) and a crosslinking agent represented by the general formula (1) to react the water-dispersible polymer with the crosslinking agent, thereby obtaining a pigment water dispersion containing pigment-containing crosslinked polymer particles.

Novel, nano-structured particles are formed by introducing a selected solid of interest into a structured fluid matrix formed by a dispersion of a small molecule host vessel components, such as a native or modified polysaccharide, cavitand, simple sugar, disaccharide, simple polyol or other similarly structured molecule known to be useful as a host vessel, in an acidic medium or other solvent, whereby the particle size of the introduced solid is reduced and or limited in the structured fluid matrix, by incorporation into or attachment to, the host vessel. The simple, one-batch mixing process results in stabilized colloidal dispersions of the nanoparticles of a variety of solids of varying scope and function and useful in a wide variety of applications, including without limitation ceramic materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride.