Recording medium, image forming process using the same, and process for the preparation of the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTadayoshi Inamoto, Nobuyuki Hosoi, Kenji Shinjo
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Abstract
Provided is a recording medium provided with an ink-receiving layer on at least one surface of a substrate, wherein said ink-receiving layer is composed of a porous layer comprising pigment particles and mutually fused thermoplastic resin particles.
Claims6
A recording medium for ink-jet recording with an ink containing a pigment, provided with an ink-receiving layer on at least one surface of a substrate, wherein said ink-receiving layer comprises a porous layer comprising thermoplastic resin particles that have been mutually fused with no particle structure left and pigment particles, wherein the ink-receiving layer and the substrate are fused, and the ink receiving layer has gaps formed by the fusion of the thermoplastic resin particles,
- wherein the amount of the thermoplastic resin in the ink-receiving layer is 40% or less by weight of that of the pigment in the ink-receiving layer, and
- wherein said substrate has a thickness in the range of 0.2 to 1.0 mm, and is composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyvinyl chloride resin, polystyrene resin, polycarbonate resin and polyvinylidene chloride resin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.