WATER-BASED INK FIXING COMPOSITION, THERMALLY TRANSFERRED IMAGE COVERING FILM USING THE SAME, AND THERMAL TRANSFER IMAGE RECORDING MEDIUM.

摘要

A water-base ink fixing composition for use in fixing a water-base image. The composition contains a clay interlayer compound and an ion exchanger such as an ion exchange resin. It may contain a water absorbing resin and a thermally fusible resin as a binder. A thermally transferred image covering film is formed by removably forming on a substrate a water-base ink fixing layer consisting of the water-base ink fixing composition. A binder layer or a layer of a thermally fusible resin may be formed on a water-base ink fixed layer. A thermally transferred image covering film is formed by laminating any one of a water-base ink fixing layer, a binder layer and a layer of a thermally fusible resin on a thermally transferred image or a protective layer-carrying thermally transferred image in an opposed state and thermally pressing them against each other, whereby the water-base ink fixing layer is transfer-laminated.