Patent ID: 6908188

Claim:
An ink jet ink set and recording element combination comprising: A) a porous ink jet recording element having a 60° specular gloss of at least about 30; and B) a pigment based ink jet ink set comprising at least two inks; wherein the RGD value is less than 40% when 60° is used as the specular angle and the RGD value is calculated according to Equation (A): RGD ⁢ ⁢ % = ⁢ ∑ I = 1 N ⁢  Gloss ⁡ ( Imaged ⁢ ⁢ Areas ) I - Gloss ⁡ ( Non ⁢ ⁢ Imaged ⁢ ⁢ Areas )  ∑ I = 1 N ⁢ Gloss ⁡ ( Imaged ⁢ ⁢ Areas ) I Equation ⁢ ⁢ ( A ) Where I is a variable which identifies a certain color patch used in the evaluation, N is the total number of color patches used in the evaluation.