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Ink-jet recording method employing inks of different characteristics and apparatus therefor

US6007182A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 16, 1996
Grant dateDec 28, 1999
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Expiry dateDec 16, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J2/2107
  • WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

There are provided a color image forming method with liquids, capable of ensuring sharpness and high density in basically all the color images, and a recording apparatus therefor. This invention employs a black ink of relatively superior diffusibility and color inks of relatively superior penetrability, different in color from the black ink, and is characterized by forming the boundary area of a black image area with the color inks instead of the black ink.

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