Patent ID: 8802221

Claim:
An intermediate transfer member for use in a transfer ink jet recording method, the method including an intermediate image forming process of applying an ink to an image-forming surface of the intermediate transfer member with an ink jet device to form an intermediate image and a transfer process of transferring the intermediate image to a recording medium by pressing, wherein an outer portion of the intermediate transfer member contains a component produced by condensing at least an organosilicon compound having the following general formula (1): X—Si(OR 1 ) a (R 2 ) b (1) wherein R 1 denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R 2 denotes an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a is a natural number in the range of 1 to 3, b is an integer in the range of 0 to 2, and a+b=3, and wherein X— of the organosilicon compound having the general formula (1) has the following formula (a) or (b): wherein R 5 denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R 6 denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R 7 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, or wherein R 5 denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R 6 denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.