| abstract |
An ink composition containing an organic solvent and a pigment, which has a little amount of smell, excellent safety and health properties, excellent resin solubility, excellent printing stability and excellent drying properties, causes no corrosion to a printer, and is excellent in adhesion to non-absorbable printing media and good printability, wherein the ink composition comprises as the organic solvent at least one compound selected from compounds represented by the formulae (1) to (3), n n n wherein each of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 7 and R 8 independently represents an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an alkenylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms and each of R 5 , R 6 and R 9 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms. |