It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink set which has a
superior effect in suppressing gloss unevenness of printed images, and
which thus makes it possible to obtain images that have a uniform gloss.
The present invention achieves this object by providing an ink set
comprising one or more color ink compositions containing a pigment as a
coloring agent and a dispersing resin that is used to disperse this
pigment, and one or more clear ink compositions which contain an aqueous
polymer but which contain no coloring agent, wherein the dispersing resin
and the aqueous polymer belong to a common category so that the
60.degree. specular gloss (according to JIS Z 8741) of the printed images
that are formed by the abovementioned color ink compositions and/or the
abovementioned clear ink composition is substantially uniform.