Thermal transfer image-receiving sheet
AssigneeDai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoichi Shirai, Kazunobu Imoto, Atsushi Mutou
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Abstract
A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet having a substrate composed of paper or a paper-containing laminate is free from surface undulations or irregularities extending over several millimeters or more related to appearance and quality, has excellent printability, and gives high smoothness and a quality appearance. Concretely, a substrate 1 is composed of paper with an average area per flock of 6 mm.sup.2 or less, and a coloring material receptive layer 2 is formed on the substrate to constitute a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet 10. A resin layer 4 having fine voids inside is provided at least on the surface of the substrate 1 on the side where the coloring material receptive layer 2 is laminated.
Claims3
A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet comprising:
- a substrate composed of a paper or a laminate comprising a paper, and
- a coloring material receptive layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate,
- an average area per flock of the paper constituting the substrate being 6 mm.sup.2 or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.