Abstract: To provide a thermal-transfer sheet having a back layer that can be prepared without heat treatment such as aging and is superior in heat resistance and sliding property, and has no such defect of printed images as wrinkling and tailing during printing. A thermal-transfer sheet having a substrate film, a transfer ink layer formed on one face thereof, and a back layer formed on the other face thereof, the back layer comprising: a binder containing a polyamide-imide resin (A) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher and a polyamide-imide silicone resin (B) having a Tg of 200° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printing method which can form an image having a rainbow color and a metallic luster at a low cost. The printing method comprises the steps of: providing a substrate; forming, on a surface of the substrate, a first image using a pigment- or dye-containing first colorant; and then forming a second image using a pearl pigment-containing second colorant.

Abstract: To provide a thermal-transfer sheet having a back layer that can be prepared without heat treatment such as aging and is superior in heat resistance and sliding property, and has no such defect of printed images as wrinkling and tailing during printing. A thermal-transfer sheet having a substrate film, a transfer ink layer formed on one face thereof, and a back layer formed on the other face thereof, the back layer comprising: a binder containing a polyamide-imide resin (A) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher and a polyamide-imide silicone resin (B) having a Tg of 200° C.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer recording medium is such one wherein a transferable layer is peelably provided on a substrate, an image is formed on a receptor layer partially constituting the transferable layer by thermal transfer, and then the transferable layer is retransferred onto a transfer-receiving material. In the intermediate transfer recording medium of a first aspect, the peeling strength “a” of the image formed region and the peeling strength “b” of the image non-formed region, the regions being included in the transferable portion after the image is thermally transferred on the receptor layer, satisfies the following inequality (1): |a?b|?b/2. In the intermediate transfer recording medium of a second aspect, the peeling strength of the transferable portion at the time of peeling it from the substrate is from 19.30442 to 96.52215 mN/cm (5 to 25 gf/inch), and the thickness of the transferable portion is 3 ?m or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printing method which can form an image having a rainbow color and a metallic luster at a low cost. The printing method comprises the steps of: providing a substrate; forming, on a surface of the substrate, a first image using a pigment- or dye-containing first colorant; and then forming a second image using a pearl pigment-containing second colorant.