Patent ID: 6908187

Claim:
An ink-jet recording method comprising: providing an ink to an ink receiving sheet, wherein the ink comprises fine resin particles, a water-soluble dye, water and an organic solvent, wherein the ink receiving sheet comprises a support and a porous ink receiving layer which has pores and is provided on the support, and wherein the ink and the ink receiving sheet satisfy the following formula | D L10 −D M50 |≦170 nm, where: D L10 is particle diameter at which 10 percent of the fine resin particles by number have a diameter from a minimum diameter D L0 up to and including D L10 , and D M50 is a pore diameter measured using a mercury porosimeter at which 50 percent of the pores by volume have a diameter from a minimum diameter D M0 up to and including D M50 .