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A degassing method of an ink-jet ink comprising at least a pigment, and having a viscosity of not less than 10 mPa·second and not more than 50 mPa·second at 25° C., comprising the step of: carrying out degassing employing an external refluxing type hollow fiber degassing module under a condition of a pressure loss of the hollow fiber degassing module during degassing being less than 0.1 MPa.

Provided is a toner that comprises a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a colorant, wherein the mass average particle diameter of the toner is 3 μm to 8 μm, the content of particles having a particle diameter of no more than 5 μm is from 60% by number to 90% by number, the binder resin comprises a polyester resin (A) having a softening temperature Tm(A) from no lower than 120° C. to no higher than 160° C. and a polyester resin (B) having a softening temperature Tm(B) from no lower than 80° C. to lower than 120° C., and at least one of the polyester resins (A) and (B) is prepared by condensation polymerization between an alcohol component and a carboxylic acid component, and the alcohol component comprises divalent alcohol of 1,2-propanediol in a content of no less than 65% by mole and consists substantially of aliphatic alcohol; and also provided is a developer that comprises the toner and a carrier.

The invention discloses a pixel structure and an organic light emitting display adopting the same. The pixel structure comprises a plurality of pixel units, wherein each pixel unit takes a rhombus structure formed by an upper half part and a lower half part; the adjacent pixel units are arranged in a staggered manner; each pixel unit comprises a plurality of sub pixels; a first sub pixel forms one of the upper half part and the lower half part of the rhombus pixel unit; a second sub pixel and a third sub pixel are arranged side by side to form the other of the upper half part and the lower half part of the rhombus pixel unit together; pixels in the same color of the pixel units in the adjacent rows are arranged adjacently. By integrating the same sub pixels together, the width of the corresponding vapor deposition Mask hole diameter can be enlarged, the difficulty of the Mask technology can be reduced, and the display PPI (Pixel Per Inch) can be improved; meanwhile, because of the staggered arrangement manner of the pixel units in the adjacent rows, the adjacent edges of the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel with the first sub pixel can be longer, main light emitting of the pixel units can be relatively concentrated, and the light mixing effect is good.

The invention relates to a pixel driving method, a pixel driving device and computer equipment. The pixel driving method comprises the steps that pixel signals of each color sub-pixel of each unit pixel in a pixel block are acquired, wherein each unit pixel comprises a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel; and then, according to the pixel signals of each color sub-pixel, signal judgment intervals and proportional norm values corresponding to the signal judgment intervals, a first type of gray scale signal is loaded to a part of the same color sub-pixels in the pixel block according to preset rules, and a second type of gray scale signal which is not equal to and has small difference with the first type of gray scale signal is correspondingly loaded to the remaining same color sub-pixels, so that graininess feeling when the pixel block displays is improved.

In printing of multi-level darkness/lightness of a certain color, which is performed with a dark ink and a light ink of the certain color, graininess is improved. A printing method includes generating a plurality of types of drive signals, and ejecting the dark ink and the light ink from a head, an amount of each ink varying for each dot tone value. In generation of a plurality of the types of the drive signals, a plurality of the types of drive signals are generated, where a waveform section that is for the dark ink of the certain color and that corresponds to a minimum dot tone value in ejection of ink is different from a waveform section that is for the light ink of the certain color and that corresponds to the minimum dot tone value, and where a waveform section that is for the dark ink of the certain color and that corresponds to a maximum dot tone value is different from a waveform section that is for the light ink of the certain color and that corresponds to the maximum dot tone value. In ejection of the dark ink and the light ink from the head, a drive signal that is generated based on a type of the dot tone value designated according to a size of a to-be-formed dot and based on a type of the ink is applied to an element that is provided on the head and that performs an operation for ejecting ink.

In an aspect, a first ink amount relating to the yellow ink is smaller than both a second ink amount relating to the cyan ink and a third ink amount relating to the magenta ink.

In another aspect, a first total increase amount is larger than both a second total increase amount and a third total increase amount. The first total increase amount is a total increase amount of inks other than the yellow ink relating to a black yellow gradation. The second total increase amount is a total increase amount of inks other than the cyan ink relating to a black cyan gradation. The third total increase amount is a total increase amount of inks other than the magenta ink relating to a black magenta gradation.

In another aspect, a first lowest brightness is lower than both a second lowest brightness and a third lowest brightness. The first lowest brightness is lowest brightness of color to be printed without using black ink on a black yellow gradation. The second lowest brightness is lowest brightness of color to be printed without using black ink on a black cyan gradation. The third lowest brightness is lowest brightness of color to be printed without using black ink on a black magenta gradation.

Provided are an ink jet ink set, an ink jet recording method, and an ink jet recording apparatus each of which can reduce the graininess of an image to be recorded and improve the water fastness of the image even in a recording medium such as plain paper. The ink jet ink set has a first ink and a second ink independently, and is used so that the first and second inks overlap each other at least partly upon application of the inks to a recording medium. The first ink contains at least a pigment and a silicone oil. The second ink contains at least a pigment and a graft polymer that includes at least a nonionic unit represented by the general formula (I) and a unit having a polysiloxane structure.

An ink set includes a cyan ink composition containing C. I. Pigment Blue 15:6 as a pigment; a magenta ink composition containing a quinacridone pigment selected from the group consisting of C. I. Pigment Violet 19, C. I. Pigment Red 122, C. I. Pigment Red 202, and C. I. Pigment Red 209 or a quinacridone solid solution pigment composed of at least two selected from the group; a yellow ink composition containing a pigment selected from the group consisting of C. I. Pigment Yellow 74, C. I. Pigment Yellow 213, and C. I. Pigment Yellow 185; a light magenta ink composition containing a quinacridone pigment selected from the group consisting of C. I. Pigment Violet 19, C. I. Pigment Red 122, C. I. Pigment Red 202, and C. I. Pigment Red 209 or a quinacridone solid solution pigment composed of at least two selected from the group at a pigment concentration lower than that of the magenta ink composition; and a light cyan ink composition containing C. I. Pigment Blue 15:3 as a pigment at a pigment concentration lower than that of the cyan ink composition.

The image processing method and apparatus use a digital half-toning technique. The method and apparatus split a continuous tone image into split regions, compute an area size of each of the split regions and select an optimum halftone best suited to each of the split regions depending on the thus computed area size of each of the split regions. The program implements the above image processing method by control with a computer. The above program is written to the recording medium and can be read with the computer from the recording medium.

A mixed solution of a bismuth salt and a metal alkoxide is mixed together with an aqueous alkali solution, and a Bi₁₂MO₂₀ precursor, in which M represents at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Ge, Si, and Ti, is thereby obtained. The Bi₁₂MO₂₀ precursor is subjected to molding processing, the thus molded Bi₁₂MO₂₀ precursor is subjected to firing processing, and a photo-conductor layer is thereby produced. Alternatively, the Bi₁₂MO₂₀ precursor is subjected to heating processing in an alkaline liquid phase or to firing processing, and Bi₁₂MO₂₀ particles are thereby obtained. A photo-conductor layer is produced by use of the thus obtained Bi₁₂MO₂₀ particles.

An image that is robust against position shift and that has improved graininess is formed. In the embodiments, a halftone processor creates a first dot arrangement and a second dot arrangement from related weighting functions and weighting maps (S1508, S1509), evaluates the image quality when the first dot arrangement and the second dot arrangement are overlapped and combined (S1511, S1512), updates the weightings for only pixels where a dot is arranged in case where the evaluation results in the evaluating step are not within a specified range (S1513), obtains a first dot arrangement and a second dot arrangement that were recreated based on the updated weightings (S1508, S1509), and repeats steps S1508 to S1514 until it is determined that the change in image quality due to position shift when the recreated first and second dot arrangements are overlapped and combined is within a specified range.

A toner comprising a toner particle containing a resin and a colorant, wherein, with respect to a temperature-storage elastic modulus curve obtained by powder dynamic viscoelastic measurement on the toner, (I) the relative minimum values for the variation in the storage elastic modulus E′ with respect to temperature T in the temperature range of at least 30° C. and not more than 180° C. have a relative minimum value of equal to or less than −1.00×10⁷ and the relative minimum value on the lowest temperature side is equal to or less than −1.00×10⁸; (II) the storage elastic modulus E′ (50) of the toner at 50° C. is at least 1.00×10⁹ and not more than 9.00×10⁹; and (III) for a storage elastic modulus E′ (120) of the toner at 120° C., E′ (50) and E′ (120) satisfy 1.50≤[E′ (50)]/[E′ (120)]≤3.00.

The present application relates to a photothermographic material comprising, on a side of a support, (a) a photosensitive silver halide, (b) a reducible silver salt, (c) a phenol derivative having the specific structure as reducing compound, (d) a binder, (e) a coupler compound, and (f) a compound represented by Q1-NHNH-V6 wherein Q1 is a 5- to 7-membered unsaturated ring and V6 is a carbamoyl group, etc.

An inkjet recording method having the steps of: ejecting ink containing pigment, water and an organic solvent onto an image receiving medium, wherein the image receiving medium has a support member having a non-solvent-permeable resin layer, and an ink image receiving layer having a solvent absorbing layer containing inorganic fine particles and a binder, and a surface portion layer containing resin fine particles, an inorganic pigment and a binder; and conducting a heating and pressing treatment onto the image receiving medium. The heating and pressing treatment satisfies conditions of following expressions:

(T−T_G)xt>2

(T−T_M)xt<3

wherein, T represents a surface temperature (° C.) of the heating and pressing treatment; T_G represents a glass transition temperature of the resin fine particles (° C.); t represents a time (second) of the treatment; and T_M represents a melting temperature (° C.) of the non-solvent-permeable resin layer.

The dither mask generation method includes: a nozzle ejection rate determination process of determining a nozzle ejection rate of each nozzle in a recording head; a corresponding nozzle specifying process of specifying the nozzle corresponding to individual pixels of a dither mask by making at least one nozzle in charge of recording at each pixel position correspond to the individual pixels of the dither mask; a nozzle ejection rate reflecting processing process of performing processing of reflecting the nozzle ejection rate on an evaluation index when individual thresholds of the dither mask are set; and a threshold setting process of setting the thresholds to the individual pixels of the dither mask on the basis of the evaluation index.

A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, a blue-sensitive layer unit, a green-sensitive layer unit and a red-sensitive layer unit, each of these light-sensitive layer units composed of at least one silver halide emulsion layer, together with at least one nonphotosensitive layer, wherein at least one compound (A) and at least one compound (B) are contained, the compound (A) being a heterocyclic compound of less than 4.5 ClogP which when added, is capable of enhancing the sensitivity of the silver halide color photosensitive material as compared with that exhibited when not added, the compound (B) being a heterocyclic compound of 4.5 or greater ClogP which when added, is capable of enhancing the sensitivity of the silver halide color photosensitive material as compared with that exhibited when not added.

The present invention discloses a fish skin ham sausage preparation method using ictalurus punctatus skin and the preparation method which uses ictalurus punctatus skin and frozen hypophthalmichthys molitrix surimi as raw materials to prepare the fish skin ham. The preparation method is as follows: firstly thawing fish skin, dicing, marinating for the next step, and secondly thawing the frozen hypophthalmichthys molitrix surimi, adding accessory ingredients, chopping, and finally adding fish skin grains at a certain percentage, mixing evenly, vacuum pumping, and filling ham sausage, sterilizing, cooling and preparing finished products. The method maintains the original flavor of the fish meat sausage, at the same time improves taste and nutritional value enriches the variety of the ham sausage, and provides a new way for the use of ictalurus punctatus.