The thermal transfer image-receiving sheet according to the present disclosure includes a receiving layer, a front substrate, a porous layer, and a rear substrate in this order and further includes a metal-containing layer interposed between the receiving layer and the front substrate or between the front substrate and the porous layer. The thermal conductivity of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which is measured on the receiving layer-side is 0.38 W/m.Math.K or less. The Martens hardness of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which is measured on the receiving layer-side is 10.0 N/mm.sup.2 or less. The 45-degree specular gloss of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which is measured on the receiving layer-side is 800 or more.

The thermal transfer image-receiving sheet according to the present disclosure includes a receiving layer, a front substrate, a porous layer, and a rear substrate in this order and further includes a metal-containing layer interposed between the receiving layer and the front substrate or between the front substrate and the porous layer. The thermal conductivity of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which is measured on the receiving layer-side is 0.38 W/m.Math.K or less. The Martens hardness of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which is measured on the receiving layer-side is 10.0 N/mm.sup.2 or less. The 45-degree specular gloss of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which is measured on the receiving layer-side is 800 or more.

A radiation-curable composition includes at least one monofunctional acrylate monomer and/or methacrylate monomer and/or at least one monofunctional acrylamide monomer, at least one multifunctional acrylate monomer and/or methacrylate monomer and at least one oligomer and/or at least one polymer, wherein the composition at 40° C. has a viscosity of ≥50 mPas, in particular >50 mPas.

A radiation-curable composition includes at least one monofunctional acrylate monomer and/or methacrylate monomer and/or at least one monofunctional acrylamide monomer, at least one multifunctional acrylate monomer and/or methacrylate monomer and at least one oligomer and/or at least one polymer, wherein the composition at 40° C. has a viscosity of ≥50 mPas, in particular >50 mPas.

An aqueous composition can be used for pre-treating a substrate prior to inkjet printing to provide a white opaque background for inkjet-printed images. This aqueous composition includes: (a) one or more water-soluble salts of a multivalent metal cation at 5-30 weight %; (b) a nonionic or cationic water-soluble or water-dispersible polymeric binder material at 5-30 weight %; and (c) surface-treated visible light-scattering particles having a D.sub.50 (median) particle size of at least 0.04 μm and up to and including 2 μm in an amount of 5-60 weight % based on the total aqueous composition weight. The pre-treated substrate is useful as an inkjet receiving medium that can be readily inkjet-printed particularly with anionically-stabilized aqueous pigment-based inks.

A pretreatment liquid that is used together with an aqueous inkjet ink containing a pigment and water, wherein the pretreatment liquid contains resin microparticles (A), a surfactant (B), a coagulant (C) and water, the surfactant (B) contains a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether (b-1), and the coagulant (C) contains a polyvalent metal salt and/or a cationic polymer compound and has a water absorptivity at a temperature of 40° C. and a relative humidity of 80% of 75% by mass or less.

An inkjet recording medium, comprising an ink-receiving layer containing an inorganic pigment, a binder, an inkjet ink-fixing agent comprising a cationic compound, and organic spherical particles disposed on at least one surface of a base paper, wherein the ink-receiving layer further contains a water-soluble metal salt and 5 parts by weight or more to 15 parts by weight or less of polyvinyl alcohol (A) with a polymerization degree of 700 or less and 20 parts by weight or more to 40 parts by weight or less of polyvinyl alcohol (B) with a polymerization degree of 1200 or more as the binder with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ink-receiving layer; and a volume 50% average particle diameter (D50) as measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method of the organic spherical particles is 15.0 μm or more.

An inkjet recording medium, comprising an ink-receiving layer containing an inorganic pigment, a binder, an inkjet ink-fixing agent comprising a cationic compound, and organic spherical particles disposed on at least one surface of a base paper, wherein the ink-receiving layer further contains a water-soluble metal salt and 5 parts by weight or more to 15 parts by weight or less of polyvinyl alcohol (A) with a polymerization degree of 700 or less and 20 parts by weight or more to 40 parts by weight or less of polyvinyl alcohol (B) with a polymerization degree of 1200 or more as the binder with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ink-receiving layer; and a volume 50% average particle diameter (D50) as measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method of the organic spherical particles is 15.0 μm or more.

Provided are ink-receptive coating compositions including: (a) an aqueous anionic polyurethane dispersion; and (b) an aqueous solution of a nonionic polyurethane. Methods of coating substrates, and of printing, including providing and/or coating the composition onto a substrate are also provided.

Provided is an object to be printed which can improve the quality of a printed image in inkjet printing on the object to be printed, regardless of the resolution of an inkjet image. In a method for producing an object to be printed having an area to be printed on a surface thereof, a surface of the area to be printed is adjusted so that the area to be printed has a surface energy E (mN/m) of 30 or more and 50 or less. The object to be printed is selected from a can and a film for containers.