Image transfer sheet for electrophotography, and image recorded medium, as well as method for manufacturing the same

An image recorded medium obtained by a process comprising:

• providing an image transfer sheet for electrophotography comprising a substrate and an image receiving layer provided on a surface of the substrate;
• electrophotographically forming a mirror image of a desired image made of an image forming material on the image receiving layer of the image transfer sheet;
• adhering the image receiving layer to an image supporting element by heat and pressure such that the mirror image contacts the image supporting element;
• and
• after cooling and solidification of the image forming material, peeling the substrate off the image receiving layer so as to transfer the image forming material to the image supporting element,
• wherein the image receiving layer includes particles having a volume average particle diameter which is greater than a thickness of the image receiving layer, and both surfaces of the image transfer sheet have surface resistivities at 23° C. 55% r.h. which are within the range of 1.0×108 to 1.0×1013Ω.

A method for manufacturing an image recorded medium, the method comprising:

• providing an image transfer sheet for electrophotography comprising a substrate and an image receiving layer provided on the substrate;
• electrophotographically forming a mirror image of a desired image made of an image forming material on the image receiving layer of the image transfer sheet;
• superposing the image transfer sheet on an image supporting element such that the mirror image contacts the image supporting element;
• adhering the image receiving layer to the image supporting element by heat and pressure;
• and
• after cooling and solidification of the image forming material, peeling the substrate off the image receiving layer so as to transfer the image forming material to the image supporting element,
• wherein the image receiving layer includes particles having a volume average particle diameter which is greater than a thickness of the image receiving layer, and both surfaces of the image transfer sheet have surface resistivities at 23° C. 55% r.h. which are within the range of 1.0×108 to 1.0×1013Ω.

A method for manufacturing two image recorded media from a transfer sheet for electrophotography, the method comprising:

• providing an image transfer sheet for electrophotography comprising a substrate and image receiving layers provided on both sides of the substrate;
• electrophotographically forming mirror images of desired images made of an image forming material on both sides of the image transfer sheet for electrophotography;
• superposing two image supporting elements on both sides of the image transfer sheet for electrophotography such that the image supporting elements respectively contact the opposite sides of the image transfer sheet;
• adhering the image receiving layers to the image supporting elements by heat and pressure;
• and
• after cooling and solidification of the image forming material, peeling the image receiving layers off the substrate so as to transfer the image forming material to the image supporting elements,
• wherein the image receiving layers each include particles having a volume average particle diameter which is greater than a thickness of the image receiving layer, and both surfaces of the image transfer sheet have surface resistivities at 23° C. 55% r.h. which are within the range of 1.0×108 to 1.0×1013Ω.