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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2004
Taro Suzuki, Tokyo-To, JP;
Masamitsu Suzuki, Tokyo-To, JP;
Takenori Omata, Tokyo-To, JP;
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which has none of the offset of an antistatic agent, the transfer of the antistatic agent onto a carrier roll of a thermal printer or the like, a lowering in whiteness, glossiness, and sensitivity in printing of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, and a remarkable lowering in coating strength under high-humidity environmental conditions and thus can realize stable and excellent antistatic properties. The thermal transfer image-receiving sheet comprises a substrate sheet and a dye-receptive layer provided on at least one side of the substrate sheet. An electrically conductive layer is provided as at least one layer between the substrate sheet and the receptive layer, or as at least one layer on the substrate sheet in its side remote from the receptive layer. The electrically conductive layer comprises electrically conductive synthetic phyllosilicate. By virtue of the incorporation of the electrically conductive synthetic phyllosilicate in the electrically conductive layer, the electrically conductive layer has good adhesion to the substrate sheet and other layers and has high glossiness, and the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is free from a change in physical properties such as coating strength upon a change in environmental conditions and has excellent antistatic properties.