The present disclosure is drawn to coating compositions. The coating composition can include from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water; from 5 wt % to 40 wt % polyethyleneimine; from 5 wt % to 40 wt % polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene oxide-modified polyvinyl alcohol, or a mixture thereof; and from 0.5 wt % to 10 wt % cationic salt. The coating composition can have a viscosity ranging from 50 cps to 400 cps.

[Problem] To provide a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet that makes it possible to produce an image-printed item having high smoothness.

[Solution] In a first embodiment of the present invention, a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is characterized by comprising a receiving layer, a first resin layer, a paper substrate, and a second resin layer in this order, wherein the paper substrate has a thickness of 95 m or more and 135 m or less, the first resin layer has a weight of 20 g/m.sup.2 or more and 60 g/m.sup.2 or less, the second resin layer has a weight of 19 g/m.sup.2 or more and 35 g/m.sup.2 or less.

An ink jet 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.

A fabric print medium containing a fabric base substrate with a first and a second side; a polymeric barrier layer that is extruded, or a polymeric barrier layer with adhesion property that is laminated, on at least one side of the fabric base substrate; a primary coating composition that includes a polymeric binder and filler particles applied over a polymeric barrier layer; and an image-receiving coating composition that includes, at least, a first crosslinked polymeric network and a second crosslinked polymeric network, that is applied over the primary coating composition. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.

Provided by the present inventions are a pattern-printed sheet and a method for manufacturing this, wherein the pattern-printed sheet is characterized that on a precoat layer laminated on a substrate are formed an optically readable region in which a dot pattern optically readable by an input terminal is printed and an optically unreadable region in which a dot pattern optically unreadable by an input terminal is printed, and the dot pattern formed in the optically unreadable region is a halftone tint having regularity whose halftone dot concentration is in the range of 10 to 30%. This pattern-printed sheet not only can be obtained by using a gravure printing method having outstanding production efficiency but also has a dot pattern readable with high reading precision in a prescribed dot size.

Inkjet receiving medium are prepared by disposing an aqueous composition onto at least one surface of a substrate to provide a topcoat layer. The aqueous composition has: (a) one or more water-soluble salts of a multivalent metal cation; and (b) composite particles having a Rockwell Hardness of less than or equal to R90 and each of the composite particles comprising domains of a (i) first organic polymer and domains of a (ii) second organic polymer. The domains of the (ii) second organic polymer are dispersed within the domains of the (i) first organic polymer. The melting point of the (i) first organic polymer is lower than the melting point of the (ii) second organic polymer. The weight ratio of the (i) first organic polymer to the (ii) second organic polymer is chosen such that the (b) composite particles have a density of 1.0-1.5 g/ml.

A fabric printable medium comprising a fabric base substrate, with an image-side and a back-side, having a water proofing treatment including a water-repellant agent applied thereto; an adhesion promoting layer, applied to the image-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising a polymeric compound and a physical networking component; an ink-receiving coating layer over the adhesion promoting layer, comprising a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network; and a barrier layer applied to the back-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising polymeric binders and filler particles with flame retardancy properties. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.

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 present disclosure is drawn to embossed print media. In some examples, an embossed print medium can include a media substrate, an embossed image-receiving layer formed on the media substrate, and an abrasion-resistant layer applied to the embossed image-receiving layer. The embossed image-receiving layer can include a first pigment filler and a polymer blend of a water-dispersible polymer and a water-soluble polymer at a weight ratio from 2:1 to 10:1. Further, the image-receiving layer can be embossed at an embossing depth from 5 m to 150 m. The abrasion-resistant layer can be applied to the image-receiving layer at a coating weight of from 2 gsm to 20 gsm. The abrasion-resistant layer can include a cross-linked polymer network and a second pigment filler.

A fabric print medium comprising a fabric base substrate; a primary coating composition with a polymeric binder and filler particles applied to, at least, one side of the fabric base substrate; an image-receiving coating composition with a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network applied over the primary coating composition; and a barrier layer comprising a water-repellent agent and a physical gelling compound. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.