Patent ID: 7358033

Claim:
A dye-containing radiation curable composition comprising a binder and an acidic dye that is soluble in an organic solvent wherein the binder contains a structural unit represented by the following general formula (I) and has a glass transition temperature in a range of 0 to 250° C., and the acidic dye contains at least one of an azo-type acidic dye, a xanthene-type acidic dye, an anthraquinone-type acidic dye, a phthalocyanine-type acidic dye, a salt of one of these dyes and a nitrogen-containing compound, and a sulfonamide derivative of one of these dyes, wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R 2 represents an oxygen atom, —NH—, or —N(R 3 —R 4 )—; R 3 represents a substituted or unsubstituted divalent group; and R 4 represents a group containing an unsaturated double bond.