Patent ID: 7025818

Claim:
An ink for ink jet recording comprising: at least one dye represented by the following general formula (1), in which the at least one dye is dissolved or dispersed in an aqueous medium; and a betaine surfactant, wherein, when the ink has been shaken 30 times or more for 10 seconds and allowed to stand for 3 minutes, a bubble height in the ink is 30 mm or less: wherein A represents a five-membered heterocyclic group; B 1 and B 2 each represents ═N—, ═CR 1 — or —CR 2 ═, and when one thereof represents ═N—, the other represents ═CR 1 — or —CR 2 ═; R 5 and R 6 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group, wherein the substituent group represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group or a sulfamoyl group, and a hydrogen atom of each substituent group may be substituted; G, R 1 and R 2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group, wherein the substituent group represents a halogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, a cyano group, a carboxyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a heterocyclic oxycarbonyl group, an acyl group, a hydroxyl group, an alkoxyl group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic oxy group, a silyloxy group, an acyloxy group, a carbamoyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyloxy group, an aryloxycarbonyloxy group, an amino group, an acylamino group, a ureido group, a sulfamoylamino group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, an aryloxycarbonylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, a heterocyclic sulfonylamino group, a nitro group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, a heterocyclic thio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, a heterocyclic sulfonyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an arylsulfinyl group, a heterocyclic sulfinyl group, a sulfamoyl group or a sulfo group, and a hydrogen atom of each substituent group may be substituted; and R 1 and R 5 , or R 5 and R 6 may combine with each other to form a five- or six-membered ring.