Disclosed herein is an ink including a coloring material, a resin and a
solvent, wherein the resin is a block copolymer of a polyvinyl ether
structure having a hydrophilic segment and a hydrophobic segment, and the
hydrophilic segment of the block copolymer has a number average molecular
weight of 1,000 to 50,000 and an HLB value of 4 to 18.