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To suppress curling phenomenon of a recording medium to which a liquid composition is applied while securing ejection stability. A liquid composition for used in an image recording method including the steps of applying an ink containing a colorant in a dissolved state or a dispersed state to a recording medium and applying to the recording medium a liquid composition which destabilizes the dissolved state or the dispersed state of the colorant in the ink by coming into contact with the ink, the liquid composition including at least a polyvalent metal ion, water, and water-soluble organic compounds 1 and 2, in which a content X (mass %) of the water-soluble organic compound 1 in the liquid composition is 15 mass % or more, and the content X (mass %) of the water-soluble organic compound 1 in the liquid composition and a content Y (mass %) of the water-soluble organic compound 2 in the liquid composition satisfy a specific relationship.

A liquid container for supplying a liquid to a liquid ejection apparatus comprises: a liquid chamber provided to store the liquid; an air chamber connected with the liquid chamber to introduce the outside air into the liquid chamber with consumption of the liquid in the liquid chamber; an open-air hole provided to introduce the outside air into the air chamber; and a liquid inlet provided to fill the liquid into the liquid chamber, wherein the liquid inlet is located at a lower position than the open-air hole, in a filling attitude of the liquid container in which the liquid is filled into the liquid chamber.

The object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording ink ensuring excellent ejection stability even after aging of the ink and also exhibiting excellent weather resistance; provide an inkjet recording ink ensuring less blurring of the image drawn, in addition to excellent ejection stability and weather resistance; and provide a yellow ink and a dark yellow ink, which can contribute to realization of a pictorial quality with excellent color balance as a constituent ink of an ink set. These objects of the present invention can be achieved by an inkjet recording ink including an aqueous medium containing a yellow dye, particularly, a yellow dye represented by formula (1), having spectral absorption characteristics such that the maximum absorption wavelength is in the region from 390 to 470 nm and the absorption long-wave end has a tailing of a specified value or less, and antioxidative characteristics such that the ozone enforced discoloration rate constant is 5.0 x 10−2 [hour−1] or less. Furthermore, when the ink contains a diamino compound represented by formula (A), a carbonyl group (or sulfo group or the like)-containing cyclic compound represented by formula (B) and an organic solvent having a specific structure, the effect of the present invention is enhanced.

When a dot is formed apart from other dots on a print medium, in response to a discontinuous print command, a first drive waveform is used. The first drive waveform includes an ejection pulse and an ink droplet reducing pulse for retrieving a portion of an ink droplet about to leave the nozzle. When a dot is formed to overlap other dots on a print medium, in response to one of continuous print commands, the second drive waveform is used. The second drive waveform includes an ejection pulse and an ejection stabilizing pulse for suppressing residual vibrations generated by the ejection pulse. By selectively using the first or the second drive waveform, an ink droplet smaller than 20 pl can be ejected stably even at high printing frequencies. As a result, high-quality, high-speed printing can be achieved.

The invention provides an aqueous ink that can prevent clogging at an orifice due to drying of the ink though the ink contains a pigment, and can achieve high-level ejection stability required in recent years. The aqueous ink contains at least water, a water-soluble organic solvent and carbon black particles, the carbon black particles including carbon black particles having a particle size of 0.5 μm or more, wherein a proportion made up by the volume of carbon black particles having a particle size of 0.2 μm or more and less than 0.5 μm is 0.3% or less based on the total volume of all the carbon black particles in the ink, a number of carbon black particles having a particle size of 0.5 μm or more and less than 5.0 μm is 1.0×107 or less per mL of the aqueous ink, and an average particle size value of the carbon black particles is from 0.060 μm or more to 0.130 μm or less.

The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: a liquid ejection head which has nozzles ejecting liquid in a downward-facing state and pressure chambers connected to the nozzles; a turning device which turns the liquid ejection head to switch the nozzles of the liquid ejection head between the downward-facing state and an upward-facing state; and a sealing device which seals the nozzles when the nozzles of the liquid ejection head are in the upward-facing state.

An ink for sublimation transfer ink jet recording includes water, at least one sugar alcohol containing not less than four OH groups, a sublimation dye, a dispersant, and a compound expressed by the following chemical formula (I):R—O—(CH2CH2O)n—H  (I)where R is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 25 to 150 and n is from 2 to 100. The ink is printed on a sheet medium by ink jet printing, and then the sheet medium is heated to sublimate and transfer the sublimation dye onto an object to be dyed. The ink for ink jet recording and the sublimation transfer dyeing method using the ink not only can maintain performances such as storage stability and high-quality recording images, but also can reduce environmental pollution, effectively prevent nozzle clogging, exhibit good dispersion stability, and achieve a high redispersion property that ensures stable ejection both during long continuous operation and after stopping the operation for a long time.

The invention provides an ink containing a polyurethane polymer which has units respectively derived from a polyisocyanate, a polyether polyol having no acid group and a diol having an acid group and has an acid value of 40 mg KOH / g or more and 140 mg KOH / g or less, a carbon black and at least one antioxidant selected from compounds represented by the general formulae (1) to (3).

A liquid droplet ejection head includes: a nozzle plate that has a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid droplet; a flow path member that includes: pressure generating chambers that communicate with the nozzles; and liquid supply paths through which liquid is supplied to the pressure generating chambers; and a damper portion that is disposed in at least one part of a region, the region being on the nozzle plate, corresponding to the liquid supply paths, the damper portion reducing a fluctuation of an ejection amount of the liquid droplets to enable stable ejection.

An ink jet ink providing an image having excellent lightfastness and having sticking resistance and intermittent ejection stability. The ink jet ink is characterized by containing at least a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a compound represented by the following general formula (II).

The liquid supply apparatus has: a main tank which stores liquid; a sub tank which is disposed vertically above a recording head configured to eject the liquid and which is not connected to atmosphere, the sub tank being composed of a deformable member so that a volume of the sub tank is changed depending on a volume of the liquid in the sub tank; a first flow channel which connects the main tank with the sub tank; a second flow channel which connects the sub tank with the recording head; a flow rate determination device which determines a flow rate of the liquid in the second flow channel; a first pressure control device which controls an internal pressure of the main tank according to the flow rate determined by the flow rate determination device; and a second pressure control device which controls an internal pressure of the sub tank so as to fall within a prescribed range.

The inkjet recording head includes: a pressure chamber to which ink is supplied from an ink supply side; a nozzle plate including a nozzle which is connected to the pressure chamber and ejects the ink; and a circulation flow channel plate which is disposed on an opposite side of the nozzle plate from an ink ejection side, and includes: a circulation flow channel for expelling the ink from a vicinity of the nozzle; and a first nozzle flow channel for connecting the nozzle with the pressure chamber, wherein: at least a portion of the circulation flow channel plate is made of a porous member; a contact angle of the ink at an inner surface of the nozzle of the nozzle plate and a contact angle of the ink at an ink ejection side surface of the nozzle plate are greater than a contact angle of the ink at an inner surface of the first nozzle flow channel; and relationship among an internal ink pressure P1 in the ink supply side, an internal ink pressure P2 in the circulation flow channel, and an atmospheric pressure P3, is expressed as follows: P3>P1>P2.

A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head; a long wiping member configured to come in contact with and wipe a liquid ejection face of the head; a wiping member conveyance device configured to convey the wiping member in a lengthwise direction of the wiping member; an elastic member configured to elastically deform and apply a force to cause the wiping member to be pressed against the liquid ejection face through a pressing member when the wiping member comes in contact and pressed against the liquid ejection face; and a slack eliminating member arranged in a front side of the head in a direction of travel of the head with respect to the wiping member, the slack eliminating member being configured to eliminate slack in the wiping member caused by elastic deformation of the elastic member when the wiping member comes in contact with the slack eliminating member.

A liquid ejecting device and method control the flying characteristic of liquid while enabling stable ejection of the liquid, without shortening the life of bubble producing units (heating resistors). The liquid ejecting device has heads each including liquid ejecting portions arranged in parallel which each include a liquid cell, bisected heating resistors in the liquid cell which produce bubbles in liquid in the liquid cell in response to the supply of energy, and a nozzle for ejecting the liquid in the liquid cell by using the bubbles produced by the heating resistors. The heating resistors are supplied with energy, and a difference is set between a manner of supplying energy to one heating resistor and a manner of supplying energy to the other heating resistor. Based on the difference, a flying characteristic of the liquid ejected from the nozzle is controlled.