An ink let recording medium includes a substrate and an ink-receiving layer as the uppermost surface layer, with the ink-receiving layer containing inorganic particles mainly including alumina particles, and a binder mainly containing a water-insoluble resin, wherein the content of the inorganic particles is 50% by mass or more relative to the total mass of the ink-receiving layer and the surface roughness (Ra) of the ink-receiving layer measured with a scanning probe microscope is in the range of 30 nm to 150 nm.

The shape-forming packaging material is a shape-forming packaging material including a heat resistant resin layer as an outer layer, a heat fusible resin layer as an inner layer, and a metal foil layer disposed between both the layers, and is configured such that a print improving resin layer is laminated on a further outer side of the heat resistant resin layer.

An image recording paper medium containing a resin having a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (1) and a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-1) and/or a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-2), in which in the resin, a content of the constitutional unit represented by General Formula (1) is 30% to 96% by mass, and a total content of the constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-1) and the constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-2) is 4% to 70% by mass. Also provided are a manufacturing method of the image recording paper medium and an image recording method including the manufacturing method:

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where R.sup.1, L.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, L.sup.2, M.sup.1 and M.sup.2 are as defined herein.

Lustrous print media include: a lustrous metallic core substrate; a base layer disposed on the lustrous metallic core substrate; and an image-receiving layer disposed on the base layer. A method of fabricating the lustrous print media and a method for printing on the lustrous print media are also provided.

A method for manufacturing decorative surfaces includes the steps of inkjet printing a color pattern with one or more aqueous inkjet inks including a polyurethane based latex binder; impregnating a paper substrate with a thermosetting resin; and heat pressing the thermosetting resin impregnated paper substrate carrying the inkjet printed color pattern into a decorative surface.

A method for making a recording sheet is provided, the recording sheet comprising a sizing or coating composition, which comprises a first binder resin, which is compatible with dry toner binder resin; a second binder resin, which is compatible with liquid toner binder resin; a first pigment, which has a BET surface area of from greater than zero to about 35 m.sup.2/g or greater; a second pigment, which has a BET surface area of from greater than zero to about 35 m.sup.2/g or greater, and which is different from the first pigment; and a paper or plastic substrate in contact with the composition, wherein the sizing or coating composition is comprised within first and second sublayers, and said method for making the recording sheet comprising contacting, in any order: the first binder resin; the second binder resin; the first pigment; the second pigment; or a mixture thereof, and the paper or plastic substrate, to produce the recording sheet.

A printable film that contains a base film substrate and an image receiving layer. The film substrate is a polyethylene terephthalate base film substrate that contains inorganic particles and that has an opacity ranging from about 50 to about 95. The image receiving layer comprises, at least, a polymeric network, poly-alkene polymeric compounds and inorganic compounds. Also disclosed herein is the method for obtaining the printable film.

In a thermal transfer sheet in which a transfer layer is provided on a substrate, the transfer layer has a layered structure in which a receiving layer, an intermediate layer, and a masking layer are layered in this order from the side of the substrate, the receiving layer is a solvent-based receiving layer containing a solvent-based resin and a silicone oil, the intermediate layer is a water-based intermediate layer containing a water-based resin, and the masking layer is a solvent-based masking layer containing a solvent-based resin and a colorant.

Provided is a thermoplastic resin film comprising a base layer (A) containing a thermoplastic resin and a coating layer (B) provided on at least one surface of the base layer (A), the coating layer (B) containing components derived from (a) an emulsion containing resin particles formed from an olefin-based copolymer and (b) an ethyleneimine-based resin, wherein the thermoplastic resin film is characterized in that a volume-average particle size of the resin particles contained in the emulsion is from 0.1 to 0.72 m. The thermoplastic resin film has good coloring performance during printing using gold ink and/or silver ink, has conventional transferability and adhesiveness even in hot melt transfer, and shows little generation of paper dust.

A method of manufacturing decorative laminates includes the steps of a) inkjet printing a first decorative layer by a first multi-pass inkjet printer and delivering the inkjet printed first decorative layer to a laminate heating press where it is heat pressed into a decorative laminate; and b) inkjet printing a second decorative layer by a second multi-pass inkjet printer and delivering the inkjet printed second decorative layer to the same laminate heating press where it is heat pressed into a decorative laminate.