| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming method employing an image transfer material, which is excellent in the transfer printing properties of fine dots and the reproducibility of a hue and has a support suitable for realizing the formation of a high image quality and a high density image. SOLUTION: This image forming method has a latent image forming process for forming a latent image by giving the transfer printing property accelerating material, which accelerates the transfer of a thermal transfer material to the surface of the image receiving layer, in the fashion of an image by the liquid drops or the like discharged from a discharge head 13 to at least either the surface of the transfer layer of an image transfer material 5 produced by providing the transfer layer made of the thermal transfer material on a support or the surface of an image receiving sheet 11 having the image receiving layer, onto which the thermal transfer material can be transferred, and a transfer process for transferring the thermal transfer material in response to the latent image transfer material in response to the latent image through the contact of the surface of the transfer layer with the surface of the image receiving layer in order to form an image on the surface of the image receiving layer under the condition that the bending angle by own weight of the support of the image transfer material is 45 deg. or more. Further, the preferable thickness of the support of the image transfer material is 50 μm or less. |
