Ink jet printing process

An ink jet printing process for improving the ozone stability of an ink jet image comprising:

• a) providing an ink jet recording element comprising a support having thereon a porous image-receiving layer having interconnecting voids;
• and
• b) applying droplets of a liquid ink on said image-receiving layer in an image-wise manner, said ink comprising water, humectant and a metallized, phthalocyanine dye, said metallized, phthalocyanine dye comprising the formula:
• MPc(SO3X)a(SO2NRR′)b
• wherein:
• M represents a metal;
• Pc represents a phthalocyanine nucleus;
• X represents hydrogen, alkali metal or an organic cation;
• a is from 0 to2;
• R represents hydrogen;
• a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from about 1 to about 15 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group;
• R′ represents an amino acid radical or at least one substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic substituent containing a primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary amino group which may be part of a cyclic ring;
• and
• b is from 1 to 4, with the proviso that a+b is an average of from 3 to 4.