Abstract: An ink jet printing method having the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading the printer with an ink-receiving element having a support having thereon a continuous, coextensive, porous ink-receiving layer having interconnecting voids; C) loading the printer with an ink jet ink composition of water, a humectant, a pigment and particles of a water-dispersible polymer; and D) printing on the ink-receiving layer using the ink jet ink in response to the digital data signals.

Abstract: A donor element for thermal transfer comprising a support having on one side thereof a fluorescent 7-aminocoumarin compound dispersed in a polymeric binder, and on the other side thereof a slipping layer comprising a lubricant. In a preferred embodiment, the compound has the formula: ##STR1## wherein: each X and Y independently represents hydrogen; a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or acyl group having from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms; a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having from about 6 to about 10 carbon atoms; or the atoms necessary to complete, along with the nitrogen to which it is attached, a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring.

Abstract: A dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer process and assemblage comprises a compression layer between the support and the dye image-receiving layer which has a greater compressibility than either the support or the receiving layer and being coated at a coverage of at least 2.0 g/m.sup.2. In a preferred embodiment, the compression layer has a compression modulus of less than 350 mega Pascals. Use of the compression layer minimizes image defects.