Image forming method and final medium to be transferred
An image forming method comprises: keeping a face of a final medium to be transferred towards a face of an intermediate transfer medium, wherein the final medium to be transferred comprises a transparent support having a readily adhesive layer, and the intermediate transfer medium has an image recorded on an image receiving layer; transferring the image onto the readily adhesive layer, so as to form a transferred image; and subjecting a surface of the readily adhesive layer having the transferred image to a smoothening treatment. And a final medium to be transferred for the image forming method comprises: a transparent support; and a readily adhesive layer provided on a surface of the transparent support onto which an image is to be transferred, wherein the readily adhesive layer has a surface roughness of from 0.5 to 7 μm in terms of Rz.
1 . An image forming method comprises:
keeping a face of a final medium to be transferred towards a face of an intermediate transfer medium, wherein the final medium to be transferred comprises a transparent support having a readily adhesive layer, and the intermediate transfer medium has an image recorded on an image receiving layer;
transferring the image onto the readily adhesive layer, so as to form a transferred image; and
subjecting a surface of the readily adhesive layer having the transferred image to a smoothening treatment.
2 . An image forming method comprises:
keeping a face of a final medium to be transferred towards a face of an intermediate transfer medium, wherein the final medium to be transferred comprises a transparent support having a readily adhesive layer, and the intermediate transfer medium has an image recorded on an image receiving layer;
transferring the image onto the readily adhesive layer, so as to form a laminate comprising the transparent support, the readily adhesive layer, the image and the image receiving layer, in this order; and
subjecting a surface of the laminate to a smoothening treatment.
3 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer is formed by transferring a readily adhesive layer from a readily adhesive layer-provided release paper onto the transparent support.
4 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the final medium to be transferred has a release sheet on the readily adhesive layer, and the method further comprises peeling apart the release sheet from the readily adhesive layer prior to the transferring the image.
5 . The image forming method according to claim 3 ,
wherein the transferring a readily adhesive layer onto the transparent support is carried out by heating and pressurizing a laminate comprising the transparent support and the readily adhesive layer-provided release paper.
6 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer has a surface roughness of from 0.5 to 10 μm in terms of Rz.
7 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer has a surface roughness of from 0.5 to 7 μm in terms of Rz.
8 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein a coefficient of a static friction between the readily adhesive layer and a surface of the intermediate transfer medium is not more than 1.3.
9 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein a coefficient of a static friction between the readily adhesive layer and a surface of the intermediate transfer medium is not more than 0.8.
10 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer has a rigid pendulum attenuation factor at 23° C. of 0.02 or more.
11 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer has a rigid pendulum attenuation factor at 90° C. of 0.1 or more.
12 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer comprises mat particles having a mean particle size of from 0.5 to 20 μm.
13 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer comprises at least one of a polyvinyl butyral resin, a polyurethane resin and an acrylic resin.
14 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the readily adhesive layer has a Vicat softening point of not higher than 100° C.
15 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the transferring the image onto the readily adhesive layer is carried out by heating and pressurizing a laminate comprising the final medium to be transferred and the intermediate transfer medium.
16 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the smoothening treatment is carried out by heating and pressurizing a laminate comprising the transparent support, the readily adhesive layer having the transferred image and a cover sheet on the surface of the readily adhesive layer having the transferred image.
17 . The image forming method according to claim 16 ,
wherein a coefficient of a static friction between a surface of the cover sheet and a surface of an image receiving material is not more than 0.5.
18 . The image forming method according to claim 16 ,
wherein the cover sheet has a surface roughness of from 0.1 to 3.0 μm in terms of Rz.
19 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein a glossiness of the surface of the readily adhesive layer having the transferred image is increased by from 5 to 100% by the smoothening treatment.
20 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image is an image containing at least a white color.
21 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image is an image containing at least a metallically glossy color.
22 . The image forming method according to claim 1 ,
wherein an image recording on the image receiving layer of the intermediate transfer medium is a thermal transfer recording.
23 . A final medium to be transferred for an image forming method comprises:
a transparent support; and
a readily adhesive layer provided on a surface of the transparent support onto which an image is to be transferred,
wherein the method comprises: keeping a face of the final medium to be transferred towards a face of an intermediate transfer medium having an image; and transferring the image onto the readily adhesive layer,
wherein the readily adhesive layer has a surface roughness of from 0.5 to 7 μm in terms of Rz.