Oji Paper Co., Ltd.

Kazuyuki Tachibana

Yoshimasa Tanaka

Yoshihiro Shimizu

Toshikazu Onishi

Hideaki Shinohara

Mitsuru Tsunoda

Toru Nakai

Kyoko Uchida

Masato Kawamura

Chikara Tsukada

Yoshio Mizuhara

Shigeru Nagashima

Hisayoshi Mito

Masanori Ohashi

Noriyuki Fujii

Naoki Kubo

The present invention provides a thermal transfer receiving sheet obtained by sequentially forming a hollow particle-containing intermediate layer and an image receiving layer on one surface of a sheet-like support mainly comprising cellulose pulp, wherein the moisture content of the entire thermal transfer receiving sheet is from 2 to 8 mass % and the moisture permeability of the entire receiving sheet is 400 g/m&#xb7;day or less; and a production method thereof. The present invention further provides a thermal transfer receiving sheet obtained by sequentially forming a hollow particle-containing intermediate layer and an image receiving layer on one surface of a sheet-like support mainly comprising cellulose pulp and providing a backside layer on another surface of the support, wherein the backside layer mainly comprises an acryl-based resin having a glass transition point (Tg) of 45&#xb0; C. or less and contains a resin filler having an average particle diameter of 5 to 22 &#x3bc;m and the Bekk smoothness according to JIS P 8119 on the backside layer surface is 100 seconds or less.

Thermal transfer receiving sheet and its manufacturing method

A thermal transfer receiving sheet comprising a sheet-like support having sequentially formed on at least one surface thereof a hollow particle-containing intermediate layer and an image receiving layer, wherein the hollow particles have an average particle diameter of 0.2 to 35 &#x3bc;m and a hollow percentage by volume of 30 to 97% and the printing smoothness (Rp value) on the surface of the thermal transfer receiving sheet, as measured by using a Microtopograph under an applied pressure of 0.1 MPa 10 m-seconds after the initiation of pressure application, is 1.5 &#x3bc;m or less. A production method of the thermal transfer receiving sheet is also provided.

Thermal transfer receiving sheet, production method thereof and image forming method using the sheet

A thermal transfer receiving sheet having laminated, on one side of its support, an intermediate layer, a barrier layer and an image receiving layer in this order, wherein said intermediate layer comprises hollow particles, and said barrier layer comprises a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, and comprises, as further main components, a resin or a mixture of two or more resins selected from the group consisting of a styrene-maleic acid copolymer, a styrene-acrylic copolymer, an acrylic acid ester polymer and polyester, or wherein said barrier layer comprises, as main components, an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer and polyurethane.

Thermal transfer receiving sheet

A thermal transfer recording sheet having a high resistance to denting due to the nipping pressure and/or thermal printing pressure has a substrate sheet including a core sheet and polyester films laminated on the two surfaces of the core sheet and an image receiving layer formed on a surface of the substrate sheet and containing a dyeable polymeric material, and exhibits a compression modulus of 50 MPa or less.

Thermal transfer recording sheet

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Kazuyuki Tachibana