Patent ID: 7014893
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: B41M,D21H,G03C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Support material for receiving a photographic, an ink jet or a thermal transfer image receptive layer thereon and coated on at least one side with a synthetic resin, said support material containing a raw paper provided at least on the front side with an image free pigment coating, wherein the synthetic resin which receives the image receptive layer thereon is a polyolefin resin on the image free pigment coating, and wherein the pigment coating contains at least about 5% by weight of a pigment having particles with a narrow grain distribution with respect to the weight of the total pigment in the pigment layer, whereby at least about 70% by weight of the pigment particles have a size of less than about 1 μm and at least 40% by weight of the particles have a grain size of 0.35 to 0.8 μm.