摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal transfer sheet having a hot-melt coloring layer formed on a base material sheet, which is excellent in printing quality and has a function of having high adhesion to a body to be transferred, and to provide an image forming method using the thermal transfer sheet.SOLUTION: The thermal transfer sheet has the hot-melt coloring layer 4 capable of thermal transferring, formed on at least a part of one surface of the base material sheet 2 via a release layer 3, wherein the release layer 3 includes at least a silicone-modified resin having an epoxy group and a curing catalyst, and the hot-melt coloring layer 4 is constituted at least of vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer as a first component, an amine-modified acrylic resin as a second component and a coloring agent. The amine-modified acrylic resin is contained at a ratio of 0.2 to 15% respective to whole resins of the first component in the hot-melt coloring layer 4. |