| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a thermally transferable image protective sheet, that can be thermally transferred to form a protective layer which can protect an image in a record immediately produced by a nonsilver photographic color hard copy recording method, can impart lightfastness and other properties to the resultant record and, in the case of records for outdoor applications or the like, can prevent dazzle caused by the reflection of light at the time of viewing of the image, a method for protective layer formation, and a record produced by the method for protective layer formation. The thermally transferable image protective sheet comprises a support and a thermally transferable resin layer having a single-layer or multilayer structure stacked on the support so as to be separable from the surface of the support. In use, thermally transferable resin layer is thermally transferred on an image in a print so as to cover at least the printed portion in the print followed by the separation of the support. The thermally transferable image protective sheet has been constructed so that the specular glossiness of the surface of the thermally transferable resin layer after transfer in the print is regulatable to less than 65% as measured at 60 degrees according to JIS Z 8741, or the surface roughness Ra of the thermally transferable resin layer after transfer in the print is regulatable to not less than 0.130. <IMAGE> |
