Ink jet recording method, ink jet recording apparatus, and recorded matter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10160876-B2
Application number	US-201715450554-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 6, 2017
Priority date	Jan 6, 2014
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

An ink jet recording method includes recording an image by discharging an ink composition which contains water and a coloring material on a recording surface of a recording medium having low absorbency or non-absorbency to ink, and forming a protective layer, which contains first resin particles where a glass transition temperature is 50° C. or higher and second resin particles where a glass transition temperature is less than 50° C. and which substantially does not contain a coloring material, on the image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An ink jet recording method comprising:
firstly forming an adhesive layer by discharging a second clear ink composition which contains second resin particles where a glass transition temperature is less than 50° C. and substantially does not contain a coloring material on a recording surface of a recording medium having low absorbency or non-absorbency to ink;
secondly recording an image on the adhesive layer by discharging an ink composition which contains water and a coloring material; and
thirdly forming a protective layer, which contains first resin particles where a glass transition temperature is 50° C. or higher and substantially does not contain a coloring material, on the image.

2. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the protective layer further contains the second resin particles.

3. The ink jet recording method according to claim 2 ,
wherein the forming a protective layer includes forming a first protective layer by discharging a first clear ink composition, which contains the first resin particles and substantially does not contain a coloring material, from a recording head, and forming a second protective layer by discharging the second clear ink composition from a recording head, and
the first protective layer is formed on the second protective layer.

4. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the forming an image is performed by using at least one of a background ink composition which contains a background coloring material as the coloring material and a color ink composition which contains a colored coloring material as the coloring material.

5. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image is recorded inside a region in which the adhesive layer is formed when viewing the recording surface of the recording medium in plan view and is recorded so as to be smaller than an area of the adhesive layer inside the region.

6. The ink jet recording method according to claim 5 ,
wherein the protective layer is formed so as to cover a surface of the image and an upper surface of the adhesive layer when viewing the recording surface of the recording medium in plan view.

7. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the adhesive layer, the image, and the protective layer are formed using an ink composition which does not contain a water-soluble organic solvent where a normal boiling point is 280° C. or higher.

8. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one type which is selected from an anti-fogging agent, an antistatic agent, and an antioxidant is present on the recording surface of the recording medium.

9. The ink jet recording method according to claim 1 ,
wherein a material which configures the recording surface of the recording medium includes at least one type of resin which is selected from an olefin-based resin, an ester-based resin, a vinyl chloride-based resin, and an amide-based resin.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Ohta Hitoshi
• Tsukiana Kazuaki

Classifications

• C09D11/10

  based on artificial resins · CPC title

• B41M5/0011

  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) · CPC title

• Y10T428/24901

  including coloring matter · CPC title

• C09D11/12

  based on waxes or bitumen · CPC title

• C09D11/322

  Pigment inks · CPC title