Patent ID: 8556401

Claim:
An inkjet recording method, comprising: spraying droplets of an ink composition onto a recording medium to form an image with a metallic gloss thereon, said ink composition comprising a metal pigment, organic solvent, and resin, wherein (A) the amount of the ink composition that is sprayed onto the recording medium is between 1.0 and 50 mg/cm 2 , (B) the image formed on the recording medium has a specular gloss measured at 20° , 60° , and 85° of no less than 200, 200, and 100 respectively, as measured on the recording medium in accordance with JIS Z 8741, (C) the metal pigment contains plate-like particles, and wherein if a longitudinal diameter on the planar surface of the plate-like particle is X, a lateral diameter is Y, and a thickness is Z, a 50% average particle diameter R50 of a corresponding circle determined from the surface area in the X-Y plane of the plate-like particle is between 0.5 and 3 μm and the condition R50/Z >5 is satisfied, and (D) the concentration of the metal pigment in the ink composition is between 0.1 and 3.0 wt%.