Patent ID: 8794755

Claim:
A printed matter production process comprising the steps of: providing an actinic ray curable inkjet ink containing a polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator and a gelling agent, having a viscosity of from 60 to 200mPa·second at 25 ° C. and at a shear rate of 1000/second and having a phase transition temperature of not lower than 25° C.; heating the actinic ray curable inkjet ink to the phase transition temperature or higher; and ejecting droplets of the heated actinic ray curable inkjet ink through a head to supply the droplets onto a recording medium, thereby forming an image, wherein the actinic ray curable inkjet ink contains a bifunctional polymerizable compound with a molecular weight of not lower than 400 and with a viscosity at 25° C. of not more than 100 mPa·second in an amount of not less than 75% by mass of the total amount of the polymerizable compound.