Patent ID: 7285158

Claim:
A recording agent of a color component used for color reproduction through subtractive color mixing, the recording agent comprising: mainly a first non-fluorescent coloring agent expressing the color component; and a second fluorescent coloring agent identical in hue to the first coloring agent, wherein the recording agent having a higher spectral reflectance than a spectral reflectance of the first coloring agent and, wherein the recording agent contains the second coloring agent in a compounding ratio of x, which is given by: Rm=(1 −xy ) Ro+xyRf (y being a predetermined constant and a positive real number satisfying 2<y<3), where Ro expresses the spectral reflectance of the first coloring agent, Rf expresses a spectral reflectance of the second coloring agent, and Rm expresses the spectral reflectance of the recording agent created by mixing the first coloring agent and the second coloring agent.