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US 8,506,070 B2Granted
Recording method, recorded matter, ink jet recording apparatus, and identification method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorTakashi Oyanagi
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Abstract
A recording method, includes: discharging droplets of an ink composition, and adhering the droplets to a recording medium to form a first dot group using an ink jet recording apparatus; and adhering a lustrous ink composition containing a color material containing plate-like particles at least onto the first dot group to form a second dot group.
Claims16
A recording method, comprising the steps of:
- (1) forming a first metallic luster surface having a first specular glossiness on a recording medium by
- (a) discharging droplets of an ink composition, and adhering the droplets to the recording medium to form a first dot group using an ink jet recording apparatus, wherein the droplets discharged to the recording medium comprise a first amount of the ink composition;
- and
- (b) adhering a lustrous ink composition containing a color material containing plate-like particles at least onto the first dot group to form a second dot group wherein the first dot group is formed in such a manner as to have a pattern on the surface;
- and the pattern has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of a roughness curve defined in Japanese Industrial Standard JIS B0601:2001 of 0.4 to 1.4 μm;
- and
- (2) forming a second metallic luster surface on the recording medium by repeating steps (a) and (b) with the proviso that a different amount of the ink composition is discharged onto the recording medium in step (a) so that the second metallic luster surface formed on the recording medium has a different specular glossiness than the first specular glossiness.
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A recording method, comprising the steps of:
- (a) discharging droplets of an ink composition, and adhering the droplets to a recording medium to form a first dot group using an ink jet recording apparatus;
- and
- (b) adhering a lustrous ink composition containing a color material containing plate-like particles at least onto the first dot group to form a second dot group, wherein the first dot group is formed in such a manner as to have a pattern on the surface;
- and the pattern has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of a roughness curve defined in Japanese Industrial Standard JIS B0601:2001 of 0.4 to 1.4 μm;
- and wherein the process of forming the first dot group is performed using a radiation curable ink composition.
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A recording method, comprising the steps of:
- (a) discharging droplets of an ink composition, and adhering the droplets to a recording medium to form a first dot group using an ink jet recording apparatus;
- and
- (b) adhering a lustrous ink composition containing a color material containing plate-like particles at least onto the first dot group to form a second dot group, wherein the first dot group is formed in such a manner as to have a pattern on the surface;
- and the pattern has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of a roughness curve defined in Japanese Industrial Standard JIS B0601:2001 of 0.4 to 1.4 μm;
- and
- (c) a process of irradiating the first dot group with radiation rays for curing after the process of forming the first dot group.
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A recording method, comprising the steps of:
- (a) discharging droplets of an ink composition, and adhering the droplets to a recording medium to form a first dot group using an ink jet recording apparatus;
- and
- (b) adhering a lustrous ink composition containing a color material containing plate-like particles at least onto the first dot group to form a second dot group, wherein the first dot group is formed in such a manner as to have a pattern on the surface;
- and the pattern has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of a roughness curve defined in Japanese Industrial Standard JIS B0601:2001 of 0.4 to 1.4 μm;
- wherein the process of forming the second dot group is performed by discharging droplets of the lustrous ink composition, and adhering the droplets at least onto the first dot group using the ink jet recording apparatus.
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An ink jet recording apparatus, comprising:
- (a) means for discharging droplets of an ink composition and for adhering the droplets to a recording medium to form a first dot group having a pattern on a surface of the recording medium with an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of a roughness curve defined in Japanese Industrial Standard JIS B0601:2001 of 0.4 to 1.4 μm;
- (b) means for adhering a lustrous ink composition containing a color material containing plate-like particles at least onto the first dot group to form a second dot group;
- and
- (c) means for controlling an amount of the ink composition discharged onto the recording medium in step (a) such that a plurality of first dot groups having different surface patterns can be formed on the surface of the recording medium and the surface of the recording medium can be formed with respective surface patterns having different specular glossiness.
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