o water, including proteins such as casein and synthetic proteins, starches such as oxidized starch and esterified starch, celluloses, polyvinyl alcohol and the like; binder resins with excellent dye fixing properties that are used as ink-jet recording ink coloring agents, such as quaternary ammonium salts of cation-modified polyvinyl alcohols or anion-modified polyvinyl alcohols, polyacrylamide,