INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORD

• US 20100187805A1
• Filed: 01/22/2010
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Ito, Akio, Oyanagi, Takashi, Sano, Tsuyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,215,764 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 283/72
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/0011 Pre-treatment or treatment during printing of the recording material, e.g. heating, irradiating after-treatment of prints B41M7/00; printers for treating or overcoating copy materials before, during or after printing B41J11/0015

Abstract

An ink jet recording method for recording an image having a metallic luster on a recording medium with an ink jet recording apparatus includes forming an underlayer on the recording medium by applying droplets of a first ink composition containing a first thermoplastic resin to the recording medium and also includes forming a metallic luster layer on the underlayer by applying droplets of a second ink composition containing a metal pigment and a second thermoplastic resin to the underlayer. The glass transition temperature of the first thermoplastic resin is lower than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the second thermoplastic resin. The underlayer is formed at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the first thermoplastic resin.

Claims

1. An ink jet recording method for recording an image having a metallic luster on a recording medium using an ink jet recording apparatus, comprising:

forming an underlayer on the recording medium by applying droplets of a first ink composition containing a first thermoplastic resin to the recording medium; and

forming a metallic luster layer on the underlayer by applying droplets of a second ink composition containing a metal pigment and a second thermoplastic resin to the underlayer,

wherein the glass transition temperature of the first thermoplastic resin is lower than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the second thermoplastic resin and the underlayer is formed at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the first thermoplastic resin.

2. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the first and second thermoplastic resins have a glass transition temperature of 25°

C. to 60°

C.

3. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the difference in glass transition temperature between the first and second thermoplastic resins is less than 5°

C.

4. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the first and second thermoplastic resins are of the same type.

5. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the underlayer is formed at a temperature higher than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the first thermoplastic resin.

6. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the underlayer is formed at a temperature of 40°

C. to 90°

C.

7. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1, wherein the metal pigment contains tabular particles made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and the 50% average particle size based on the equivalent circle diameter determined from the area of the X-Y plane of each tabular particle is 0.5 to 3 μ

m and satisfies the inequality R50/Z>

5, where R50 represents the 50% average particle size, X and Y represent the longitudinal size and transverse size, respectively, of a flat surface of the tabular particle, and Z represents the thickness of the tabular particle.

8. A record comprising:

a recording medium; and

an image, formed on the recording medium by the ink jet recording method according to claim 1, having a metallic luster.