Patent ID: 6556230
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: B41M

Abstract:
A heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet used in an image forming method comprising the steps of: bringing a thermal transfer sheet with a heat meltable ink on a substrate into contact with an image-receiving sheet to face the ink side of the thermal transfer sheet, and melting the ink with heat given by a printing head of a thermal transfer printer from the back side of the thermal transfer sheet to transfer the ink onto the image-receiving sheet, thereby forming an image,the heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet, comprising a sheet substrate and a porous ink-receiving layer, comprising a resin formed on at least one side of the sheet substrate, the porous ink-receiving layer having a thickness of 3 to 50 &mgr;m and a water vapor permeability (JIS L 1099) of not less than 300 g/(m2Â·hour) and less than 1,000 g/(m2Â·hour).