Patent ReferencesRecording liquid Monoazo dyestuffs containing substituted amino triazine Ink jet printing inks Ink, ink-jet recording method, and ink-jet recording apparatus Specific dye set for thermal ink-jet printing Thermal ink-jet inks having reduced black to color and color to color bleed Recording liquid Yellow ink composition for ink-jet printing and image recording method using the same Aqueous ink composition and method of recording using the same Recording liquid InventorsApplicationNo. 860535 filed on 08/20/1997US Classes:106/31.48, Acyclic azo attached directly or indirectly to the heterocyclic ring by nonionic bonding106/31.47, Six-ring members in the heterocyclic ring106/31.52, Plural acyclic azo group component containing106/31.58Organic oxygen compound containingExaminersPrimary: Klemanski, HeleneAttorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassC09D 011/02Foreign Application Priority Data1995-11-02 JPAbstractA yellow ink composition and a magenta ink composition are provided which have good properties satisfying requirements for a color ink jet recording ink, particularly a requirement that the color ink composition is less likely to cause clogging of nozzles, and can realize a printed image having excellent tone, waterfastness, storage stability, and lightfastness. Further, a color ink set comprising the above ink compositions in combination with a particular cyan ink composition and a particular black ink composition are also provided. A yellow ink composition comprising a dye represented by the following formula (XI) in combination with a dye represented by the following formula (XII) is a fundamental color ink composition: ##STR1## wherein R101 and R102 represent phenyl or naphthyl substituted by a hydroxyl group, --SO3 M, or --COOM. | |