Patent ID: 8288008

Claim:
An image recording material, comprising: a support and an image recording layer containing a crystalline self-dispersible polyester resin and an amorphous self-dispersible polyester resin on at least one surface of the support, wherein the crystalline self-dispersible polyester resin has a melting point of from 80Â° C. to 110Â° C., the amorphous self-dispersible polyester resin has a glass transition temperature of from 30Â° C. to 120Â° C., and the image recording layer, upon heating to a temperature above 100Â° C. at a rate of 5Â° C./min and then cooling at a rate of 5Â° C./min to a temperature of 60Â° C. in a continuous manner, has: a storage elastic modulus Gâ€²(A), which is the storage elastic modulus Gâ€² on the course of a temperature increase at 5Â° C./min, of 1Ã—10 2 Pa to 1Ã—10 5 Pa at 100Â° C., a storage elastic modulus Gâ€²(B), which is the storage elastic modulus Gâ€² on the course of a temperature decrease at 5Â° C./min, of 1Ã—10 6 Pa or more at 60Â° C. and a temperature difference of 18Â° C. or less between a temperature at which the storage elastic modulus Gâ€²(A) reaches 1Ã—10 5 Pa and a temperature at which the storage elastic modulus Gâ€²(B) reaches 1Ã—10 5 Pa, upon measurement of viscoelasticity by using a rheometer having a plate-to-plate distance of 1.5 mm and a diameter of 20 mm.