Patent ID: 8691489

Claim:
A thermal image receiver element comprising a support, and having on at least one side of the support: a dry image receiving layer having a T g of at least 25° C., which dry image receiving layer is the outermost layer of the thermal image receiver element, has a dry thickness of at least 0.5 μm and up to and including 5 μm, and comprises a polymer binder matrix that consists essentially of: (1) a water-dispersible acrylic polymer comprising chemically reacted or chemically non-reacted hydroxyl, phospho, phosphonate, sulfo, sulfonate, carboxy, or carboxylate groups, and (2) a water-dispersible polyester that has a T g of 30° C. or less, wherein the water-dispersible acrylic polymer is present in an amount of at least 55 weight % of the total dry image receiving layer weight and is present at a dry ratio to the water-dispersible polyester of at least 1:1.