Abstract: An optical recording medium composed of an energy-absorbing layer having a high energy absorption with respect to light having a wavelength of 750 to 850 nm, the energy-absorbing layer being a film composed of a matrix of a metal oxide and fine particles of a metal dispersed in the matrix, and an energy-sensitive layer which is a film or sheet of an organic material in contact with at least one surface of the energy-absorbing layer.

Abstract: A method for forming a cured resin coating having a desired pattern on the surface of a substrate, which comprisesa first step of applying a coating of an ultraviolet light-curable resin to the surface of the substrate;a second step of pre-curing said coating by irradiating ultraviolet light thereto;a third step of applying a printed layer of a predetermined pattern partly to the surface of the precured coating with a light-insensitive non-transparent printing ink;a fourth step of irradiating ultraviolet light to the product obtained in the third step to cure completely that part of the pre-cured coating on which the printed layer is absent, while that part of the pre-cured coating which exists beneath the printed layer is maintained intact; anddissolving or peeling the printed layer and the pre-cured layer existing beneath it, whereby the resin coating having the desired pattern which is in a complementary relation to the pattern of said printed layer is formed on the surface of the substrate.