Patent ID: 6830329
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: B41J,B41M

Abstract:
An ink-jet recording medium that is used in combination with a laminate member, the recording medium comprising a base sheet and an ink-receiving layer on the base sheet, the ink-receiving layer being the outermost surface of the recording medium, for use in an ink-jet image forming method in which a transparent film layer formed on a substrate as coating is placed on the ink-receiving layer on which recording has been conducted, and then the side of said substrate is heated to transfer said transparent film layer on said ink-receiving layer, followed by peeling off said substrate to laminate said transparent film layer on the surface of said ink receiving layer,said ink-receiving layer containing polyvinyl alcohol, porous inorganic silica particles having an average particle diameter between 5 &mgr;m and 7 &mgr;m, and an epoxy compound as a cross-linking agent, the epoxy compound being in the ink-receiving layer in an uncross-linked state, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol in said ink-receiving layer is not lower than 30 weight %, the content of porous inorganic silica particles in said ink-receiving layer is 100 to 300 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of polyvinyl alcohol and the content of the epoxy compound is such that 1 to 10 equivalents of epoxy ring is contained based on 100 equivalents of OH group of the polyvinyl alcohol.