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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8083337 | Ink jet printing apparatus, ink jet printing method, data generating apparatus, computer program, and ink jet printing system The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus, an ink jet printing method, a data generation apparatus, a computer program, and an ink jet printing system by which a timing for ejecting a processing liquid can be changed to improve image performance o... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079694 | Clear fluid patterning on paper media Methods and means for imaging on paper media are provided. A data file of an image to be printed is analyzed. A pattern for a clear fluid is determined according to the analysis. The pattern of clear fluid is applied to a paper media traveling in a particular direct... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7976145 | Recording method A recording method is provided for recording images based on image data on a recording area of a recording medium using a first color liquid and a second color liquid containing coloring material and a colorless liquid not containing the coloring material, the recor... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7384138 | Inkjet recording method An inkjet recording method comprising ejecting ink droplets on an image-receiving material according to recording signals to record an image on the image-receiving material, wherein at least one of the ink and the image-receiving material comprises an acid precursor... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7381756 | Ink set, ink jet recording method, recording material set, recording medium and recording matter It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink set which has a superior effect in suppressing gloss unevenness of printed images, and which thus makes it possible to obtain images that have a uniform gloss. The present invention achieves this object by p... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370956 | Method and media for printing aqueous ink jet inks on plastic surfaces Single coatings onto non-absorbent substrates on which aqueous ink jet inks are jetted with subsequent application of heat, without the use of reactive species in the ink and in the media used as a substrate coating. The heating rapidly drives the water of the ink i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7354127 | Method for forming ejection-test pattern, method for testing ejection, printing apparatus, computer-readable medium, and printing system Ejection of a clear-ink nozzle is inspected with ease. When forming an ejection-test pattern for a clear ink, for example, the clear ink is ejected toward a medium from a clear-ink nozzle to form the ejection-test pattern, and a color ink is ejected toward a region ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7331649 | Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording method includes: forming a color image with color inks by while scanning a recording head multiple times on a same recording area, forming a thinned-out image, the recording head having a plurality of nozzle sections for jetting the color inks, w... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7311394 | Ink-jet printing method and ink-jet printing apparatus A width A of the scanning area of the ink ejection orifices and a width B of the scanning area of the reacting liquid ejection orifices are respectively set as A=(n−a)×p and B=n×p, while amount of the feeding of the printing sheet during each scan corresponds to... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303258 | Inkjet printer for printing ink and fixative An inkjet printer that has a fixative reservoir with at least one outlet formed in a wall section that partially defines the reservoir. The printer also has a pagewidth printhead having designated nozzles for printing the ink fixative. The fixative reservoir has flu... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300146 | Embossing using clear ink A printing device including a plurality of cartridges, at least one cartridge including a visible ink and at least one cartridge including a clear ink; a print portion; and an accessory module in connection with the print portion; wherein the clear ink of at least o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297454 | Colorless inkjet ink compositions for improved image quality A colorless ink jet ink composition is provided for printers for printing on both porous and hybrid glossy or semi-glossy media. The ink composition comprises a water soluble polymer or dispersed latex. The ink formulation provides substantially air fast, stain resi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294184 | Ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus Provided is an ink jet ink containing a coloring material having a buffer region in an ink use range, the ink jet ink being capable of suppressing the occurrence of the deterioration (dissolution) of a heating portion surface in contact with liquid; and the disconne... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289103 | Computer system interface surface with reference points and processing sensor A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system. A user is provided with an interface surface containing information relating to the computer software and including coded data indicative of an identity of the int... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285310 | Active energy ray curable aqueous ink, and ink-jet recording process, ink cartridge, recording unit and ink-jet recording apparatus using the same An active energy ray curable ink which is quickly polymerized by an active energy ray, high in crosslinking degree of a cured material formed, excellent in adhesive property, low in viscosity, excellent in long-term storability and also excellent in ejection stabili... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285159 | Ink jet ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus Provided is an ink jet ink comprising at least a coloring material comprising a compound represented by the general formula (I) or a salt thereof; and a compound represented by the general formula (II). Thereby, there can be provided an ink jet ink that provides ima... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7276112 | Aqueous ink, ink-jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, ink-jet recording apparatus and image forming method Disclosed is an aqueous ink comprising at least water, a plurality of water-soluble organic solvents and a coloring material. The coloring material is a pigment, and, it contains a pigment particle having at least one ionic group bonded to a surface of the pigment p... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275806 | Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording method and apparatus includes: forming a color image with color inks and an invisible ink by while scanning a first recording head multiple times on a same recording area of the recording medium, forming a thinned-out image, and jetting an invisi... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273276 | Method for forming image An image forming method in which after recording by ejecting ink on an ink-jet recording medium containing a thermoplastic resin in the surface layer, a fixing process to fuse said thermoplastic resin or make it into a film is provided, wherein a colorless or white ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270701 | Ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet ink is provided with which metallic luster appearing in printing on a recording medium, i.e. the bronze phenomenon is kept from occurring and good images can be obtained. The ink jet ink includes at least a coloring material which is a compound represente... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267717 | Aqueous ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, ink jet recording apparatus and image forming method An object of the present invention is to provide an aqueous ink which can form a more excellent image in bleeding resistance, character quality and print density than the image formed by using an aqueous ink containing a conventional self-dispersion pigment and a sa... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265164 | Ink composition containing cationic water-soluble polymer An ink composition for ink jet recording is provided which can realize both good waterfastness of prints and high-quality recorded images on specialty recording media. The ink composition comprises a water-soluble colorant, such as an acid dye, a cationic water-solu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258408 | Method of controlling drive of function liquid droplet ejection head; function liquid droplet ejection apparatus; electro-optic device; method of manufacturing LCD device, organic EL device, electron emission device, PDP device, electrophoretic display device, color filter, organic EL; method of forming spacer, metallic wiring, lens, resist, and light diffusion body In a method of controlling drive of a function liquid droplet ejection head in which a plurality of nozzle arrays are arranged, the nozzle arrays have function liquid droplet ejection amounts which are different from each other per unit nozzle. The drive of the plur... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7247193 | Ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus A second ink to be used in combination with a first ink for use in an ink jet recording apparatus having a first opening to which the first ink is supplied, a second opening to which the second ink is supplied, and a cover member with which the first opening and the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244299 | Ink jet recording ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, and ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording ink comprising at least a copper phthalocyanine dye represented by the following general formula (1) and a compound represented by the following general formula (2): ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241332 | Ink jet yellow ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus To provide an ink jet yellow ink to be used in combination with ink excellent in light resistance and environmental gas resistance with a color fading balance with respect to light and an environmental gas between the inks uniformized. The ink jet yellow ink is an i... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7226157 | Ink-jet recording process Disclosed herein is an ink-jet recording process for conducting recording by ejecting a pigment ink and a reaction liquid containing a polyvalent metal salt from a recording section, in which a plurality of nozzles for ejecting the pigment ink and the reaction liqui... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226498 | Ink jet yellow ink, ink jet light-color ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit, and ink jet recording apparatus To provide an ink jet yellow ink having a favorable color tone and capable of providing an image excellent in humidity resistance. The ink jet yellow ink of the present invention is an ink jet yellow ink to be used in combination with an ink jet light-color ink comp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7210753 | Inkjet printing using protective ink A method of determining and applying a protective ink amount to be printed in addition to a plurality of colored ink amounts to make colored pixels in an image including determining the protective ink amount such that the sum of the protective ink amount and the col... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208033 | Ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, and ink jet recording apparatus An ink comprising yellow colorants and a colorant having a phthalocyanine skeleton, in which the yellow colorants are at least a colorant represented by the following general formula I and C.I. Direct Yellow 132 ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201468 | Inkjet printer cartridge with fixative delivery capabilities An inkjet printer including a cradle; an inkjet printer cartridge releasably engaged by the cradle and including at least first and second storage reservoirs for storing an ink and an ink fixative respectively; a pagewidth printhead in fluid communication with the f... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198349 | Method for testing ejection, printing apparatus, method for forming ejection-test pattern, ejection-test pattern, computer-readable medium, and printing system Ejection testing of a clear ink ejecting section is carried out easily. A clear ink is ejected toward a medium from a clear ink ejecting section for ejecting clear ink, and a color ink is ejected to a region in which the clear ink is to be adhering from a color ink ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198353 | Integrated black and colored ink printheads An improved ink jet printhead and method therefor. The printhead includes a single semiconductor substrate with ink ejection devices and a nozzle plate adjacent to the semiconductor substrate, the nozzle plate with first ink ejection nozzles for ejecting first ink d... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198837 | Image forming process, ink set, image by ink-jet recording, recorded article, surface-treated article and surface treating process An image forming method comprises a step of reacting an ink containing a coloring material with a liquid composition containing fine particles reactive to the coloring material on a recording medium, where the reaction between the coloring material and the fine part... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7157504 | Ink-jet printing methods and systems providing improved image durability Systems and methods for providing smudge resistant and durable ink-jet images having good optical density are provided. Specifically, a system for printing durable ink-jet ink images can comprise a set of two ink-jet pens, preferably thermal ink-jet pens. The first ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152942 | Fixative compensation A method of accounting for dead nozzle remapping in a multi-nozzle printhead, including remapping a fixative intended for a dot to be printed by the dead nozzle. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7141105 | Water-based fluorescent ink, recorded image using the same, and judging method The present invention relates to a water-based fluorescent ink for the purpose of measurement or judgment of the fluorescence emission in a visible light region by an excitation wavelength in a predetermined ultraviolet range, containing water, a coloring material d... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7129284 | Fluorosurfactant packages for use in inkjet printing and methods of controlling puddling in inkjet pens An inkjet printing system for use in offset printing comprises a fixer fluid and an ink. The fixer fluid comprises a fixer polymer and a first fluorosurfactant package having a fluorosurfactant and a hydrocarbon surfactant. The ink comprises a charged dye and a seco... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7118207 | Ink-jet color recording ink, color ink feeding device using the ink, and ink-jet color recroding apparatus and method using the ink Ink for use in an ink-jet color recording apparatus and a plurality of kinds of small microcapsules dispersed in the solvent, each small microcapsule having an outer shell destroyable with ultrasonic waves of a predetermined resonant frequency, each small microcapsu... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111933 | Ink-jet systems and methods using visible and invisible ink Ink-jet printing systems and methods of use for printing visible and invisible inks for subsequent development, which can produce text with associated highlighting or underlining that reduces messiness inherent in highlighting important text are disclosed. The ink-j... | 09/26/2006 |
