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US 10,557,050 B2Granted
Metallic image forming method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichi Iida, Taketoshi Okubo
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Abstract
A metallic image forming method is a method for forming a metallic image with a metallic ink containing an organic coloring agent capable of exhibiting a metallic color on a recording medium provided with an undercoat layer thereon having a black color or an opposite color to the color of diffused light from the metallic ink. The method includes applying the metallic ink onto the recording medium so as to cover at least part of the undercoat layer.
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A metallic image forming method for forming an image having a metallic hue derived from an organic coloring agent, the method comprising:
- preparing a metallic ink containing the organic coloring agent,
- preparing a recording medium provided with an undercoat layer thereon having (i) a black color for absorbing diffusion light of the metal particles or (ii) an opposite color to the color of diffused light from the organic coloring agent for cancelling the diffusion light of the organic coloring agent, and
- printing with the metallic ink onto the recording medium so as to cover at least part of the undercoat layer,
- wherein the undercoat layer has the opposite color to the color of diffused light from the organic coloring agent, and
- wherein the ink having the opposite color to the color of the diffusion light from the organic coloring agent contains a coloring material capable of exhibiting the opposite color to the color of diffused light from the organic coloring agent.
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