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Image-forming method, image-forming apparatus, ink set, and ink

US7229166B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 10, 2004
Grant dateJun 12, 2007
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Expiry dateAug 16, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/54
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an image-forming method, including performing image formation on the basis of pixel data by using at least a yellow recording agent, a magenta recording agent, and a third recording agent. A color represented on a recording medium by the third recording agent on a color space of CIE-L*a*b* has lightness higher than lightness of a color reproduction region represented on the recording medium by a combination of the yellow recording agent and the magenta recording agent, and has a hue angle in the color reproduction region. A difference in hue angle on the color space between a color represented by the yellow recording agent and a color represented by the magenta recording agent is in a range of 60 to 113°.

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