The present invention aims to provide an ink which has a sufficiently large area factor even in a small ink droplet quantity and can obtain images having a high image density, and further has a superior storage stability. According to the present invention, a cyan ink is provided which is used in an ink set having four kinds of aqueous inks consisting of a cyan ink, a magenta ink, a yellow ink and a black ink in which each ink comprises at least water, a water-insoluble coloring material, and a plurality of water-soluble organic solvents having a good medium or good mediums for the water-insoluble coloring material and a poor medium or poor mediums for the water-insoluble coloring material, wherein, the ratio B1/A1 is from 0.5 or more to 3.0 or less, where A1 denotes the total content (mass%) of the good medium based on the total mass of the cyan ink and B1 denotes the total content (mass%) of the poor medium based on the total mass of the cyan ink, and a water-soluble organic solvent which shows the maximum Ka value among the respective Ka values of the plurality of water-soluble organic solvents as determined by the Bristow method is the poor medium.
本发明的目的是提供一种墨
水,这种墨
水即使在墨滴量较小的情况下也具有足够大的面积系数,并能获得具有高图像密度的图像,而且还具有优异的储存稳定性。根据本发明,提供了一种青色油墨,该油墨用于具有四种
水性油墨的油墨组中,这四种
水性油墨包括青色油墨、品红色油墨、黄色油墨和黑色油墨,其中每种油墨至少包括
水、
水不溶性着色材料和多种
水溶性有机溶剂,这些有机溶剂对
水不溶性着色材料具有良好的介质或良好的介质,对
水不溶性着色材料具有较差的介质或较差的介质,其中,B1/A1 的比率从 0.其中,A1 表示基于青色油墨总质量的良好介质的总含量(质量%),B1 表示基于青色油墨总质量的不良介质的总含量(质量%),而在布里斯托方法确定的多种
水溶性有机溶剂各自的 Ka 值中显示最大 Ka 值的
水溶性有机溶剂为不良介质。