Multiple-use thermal image transfer recording method

A multiple-use thermal image transfer recording method comprising the step of:

• transferring a thermal image transfer ink component a plurality of times to an image-receiving medium from at least an identical portion of a thermal image transfer recording medium by application of heat,
• wherein said image transfer recording medium comprises a support and a thermal image transfer ink layer thereon, said thermal image transfer ink layer comprising (i) said thermal image transfer ink component which comprises as main components (a) a coloring agent and (b) a thermofusible material, and (ii) a porous resin component which is not thermally transferable, said thermal image transfer ink component and said porous resin component having mutual releasability, said image-receiving medium having a recording surface, with an amount (V) of said thermal image transfer ink component transferred from said thermal image transfer ink layer to said image-receiving medium during a time period of 100 msec being in a range of 2.3 to 11.5 ml/m.sup.2, which is determined from an absorption coefficient (Ka) and surface roughness index (Vr) of said recording surface, which are measured by the Bristow Method (J. TAPPI. No. 51 - 87) at a pressure of 0.1 MPa, using an extra pure liquid paraffin.