Patent ID: 8426511

Claim:
An ink-jet receiving agent, which comprises: a cationic polyurethane resin (B) containing a structural unit (A) represented by general formula (I): a water-soluble resin (H); water-soluble polyvalent metallic salt (J); and an aqueous medium into which said resins and salt are dispersed, wherein the content of a cationic amino group of the structural unit (A) included in the cationic polyurethane resin (B) is 0.005 to 1.5 equivalents/kg and wherein in the formula (I), R 1 represents an alkylene group, an alkylene group which includes an alicyclic structure, a residue of bivalent phenol, or polyoxyalkylene group, R 2 and R 3 each independently represents an alkyl group, or an alkyl group which includes an alicyclic structure, and R 4 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue of the quaternizing agent which is introduced by a quaternizing reaction, and X − represents an anionic counter ion.