Patent ID: 6946232

Claim:
An image-receiving element for use in a photographic or photothermographic diffusion transfer process comprising in sequence: a support; an image-receiving layer; and a strip-coat layer overlying said image-receiving layer, said strip-coat layer comprising an anion of a poly(acrylic acid) represented by the formula where n is an integer of from about 65 to about 3500 complexed with a cationic quaternary salt represented by the formula wherein R 1 -R 4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C 1 -C 6 alkyl and CH 2 m R 5 , wherein m is 1 or 2 and R 5 is phenyl; and an ethoxylated polymer represented by the formula C 30 H 62 —O CH 2 —CH 2 —O p OH where p is an integer of about 40.