Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium including a base and a recording layer including a photothermal conversion material and disposed on the base, wherein the thermosensitive recording medium is configured to record information in the thermosensitive recording medium through laser light irradiation, and wherein a color difference delta E between a color tone A of a background observed through the thermosensitive recording medium in which information is not recorded and a color tone B of the background directly observed without the thermosensitive recording medium in which information is not recorded is 20 or less, and a film thickness D of an area of the recording layer irradiated with laser light after information recording performed by laser light irradiation is 140% or greater but 250% or less relative to a film thickness C of the recording layer of the thermosensitive recording medium in which information is not recorded.

Abstract: A thermal image transfer recording medium composed of a support, a thermofusible ink layer formed thereon, which contains as the main components a thermofusible material and a coloring agent, and a resin layer formed on the thermofusible ink layer, which has a structure with minute craters thereon.