Pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid and printed material

• US 7,348,368 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2004
• Issued: 03/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mikuni Shikiso Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp.), Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Mikuni Shikiso Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp.), Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Kamamasu, Seiji, Kakiuchi, Munetaka, Ohya, Kimihiko, Oyanagi, Takashi, Kataoka, Shuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lipman; Bernard
• Application Number:
  US10/790,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20040229976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,483 Days
• Field of Search: 523/160, 523/161
• US Class Current: 523/160
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 11/322 Pigment inks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24802 Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.]

Abstract

A pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid containing at least a pigment and a resin, which comprises from 60 to 200 parts by weight of the resin to 100 parts by weight of the pigment, wherein at least one of the resin is a water-dispersible urethane type resin, a weight fraction of a polyurethane urea part of which is at most 2.0 wt % to the urethane resin, and the pigment dispersed in the recording liquid has a dispersion particle size D50 of from 40 to 100 nm.

Claims

1. A pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid containing at least a pigment and resin, which comprises from 60 to 200 parts by weight of the resin to 100 parts by weight of the pigment, wherein at least one of the resin is a water-dispersible urethane based resin having an acid value of 50 to 200 mgKOH/g, and a weight fraction of a polyurethane urea part of which is at most 2.0 wt % to the urethane based resin, and the pigment dispersed in the recording liquid has a dispersion particle size D50 of from 40 to 100 nm, and wherein the water-dispersible urethane based resin is derived from a polyether diol.

2. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 1, wherein the pigment includes at least a carbon black having a DBP absorption amount of from 30 ml/100 g to 100 ml/100 g.

3. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 1, wherein the urethane based resin has a weight average molecular weight of higher than 5,000 but not higher than 100,000.

4. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 1, wherein an acid value as a free acid of the urethane based resin is from 50 mgKOH/g to 100 mgKOH/g.

5. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 1, wherein the resin includes a resin having an acid value of at least 50 mgKOH/g as a free acid in addition to the water-dispersible urethane based resin.

6. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 1, wherein a solid-printed part having 14.5 mg per square inch of the pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid printed by ink jet recording system on a photographic image quality paper provides a printed thickness of at least 20 nm, an optical density of at least 2 and a 20°

gloss value of at least 60.

7. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 1, wherein the pigment includes a carbon black and a pigment other than the carbon black.

8. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 7, wherein the pigment other than the carbon black is a cyan pigment.

9. A printed material printed with a pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid as defined in claim 1.

10. The printed material according to claim 9, wherein the printing is carried out by ejecting a pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid by an ink jet nozzle on a material to be recorded.

11. The printed material according to claim 9, which has a printed thickness of at least 20 nm, an optical density of at least 2 and a 20°

gloss value of at least 60.

12. The printed material according to claim 9, which has an arithmetic average roughness of at most 0.04.

13. The printed material according to claim 9, wherein the pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid contains at least a carbon black and the printed material is a black printed material.

14. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 1, wherein the water-dispersible urethane based resin is present in an amount of 60 to 200 parts by weight in terms of solid content to 100 parts by weight of the pigment.

15. The pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid according to claim 14, wherein the water-dispersible urethane based resin is present in an amount of 70 to 150 parts by weight in terms of solid content to 100 parts by weight of the pigment.