JPH10157281A - Method of manufacturing ink jet recording sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a sheet for ink jet recording with excellent suitability for ink jet recording (printing) by maintaining high surface smoothness and high gloss originally incorporated in a cast coated sheet. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing a sheet for ink jet recording having a water base ink receptive undercoating layer containing pigment and adhesive as main components on a support and a water base ink receptive or/and water base ink permeable glossy layer on the undercoating layer, comprises the steps of directly coating a mirror surface drum with coating liquid for the glossy layer, bringing it into pressure contact with the undercoating layer surface of the support coated with the undercoating layer, and then transferring glossy layer released from the drum onto the undercoating layer.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for producing an ink jet recording sheet, and has an excellent surface gloss.
The present invention also relates to a method for producing an ink jet recording sheet having excellent ink jet recording (printing) suitability.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, recording by an ink-jet printer has been used in various fields because of low noise, high-speed recording, and easy multi-color printing. As the ink jet recording paper, high quality paper devised so as to be rich in ink absorbency, coated paper having a surface coated with a porous pigment, and the like are applied. By the way, these papers are mainly made of so-called matte-tone ink jet recording paper having a low surface gloss.

However, recently, with the expansion of applications such as high-speed ink jet recording, high definition of recorded images, and full color printing, ink jet recording paper having high surface gloss and excellent appearance has been demanded. Generally, as a paper with a high surface gloss, the surface is coated with a plate-like pigment,
Furthermore, by applying a calendered coated paper or a wet coated layer to a heating drum surface having a mirror surface as necessary, by pressing and drying, a so-called mirror surface is obtained by copying the mirror surface. Cast coated papers and the like are known.

The cast coated paper has higher surface gloss and better surface smoothness than ordinary super calendered coated paper, and provides excellent printing effects. However, when used for ink jet recording paper, it has various difficulties. That is, generally, a cast coated paper is disclosed in, for example, US Pat. No. 5,275,846, in which a film-forming substance such as an adhesive in a pigment composition constituting the coated layer is formed by copying a mirror surface drum surface of a cast coater. Has a luster. However, when used as ink jet recording paper, there is a problem that these film-forming substances hinder the absorption of ink.

In order to solve the above problems, Japanese Patent Publication No. 7-9
No. 6331 discloses an ink jet recording paper provided with an ink receiving layer containing synthetic fine particle silica as a main component by a rewet casting method. However, even with this method, it is difficult to simultaneously satisfy both the surface gloss of the cast coated paper and the suitability for ink jet recording (printing), as with general cast coated paper. JP-A-7-117335 discloses an ink-receiving layer and a glossy layer mainly composed of specific colloidal particles which are successively laminated on a support, and a mirror roll heated while the glossy layer is in a wet state. There is disclosed an ink jet recording sheet that is pressed against a sheet.

[0006]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention maintains the high surface smoothness and high gloss inherent in cast coated paper,
In addition, an ink jet recording sheet having excellent ink jet recording (printing) suitability is obtained.

[0007]

According to the conventional method, it may be possible to obtain a certain degree of surface gloss and ink jet recording (printing) suitability. However, when a coating liquid for a gloss-developing layer is applied on a porous ink-receiving layer containing a pigment and an adhesive as main components so as to have inkjet recording (printing) suitability, the coating liquid is It is easily absorbed into the ink receiving layer quickly, and inkjet recording (printing)
It was found that it was difficult to obtain extremely strong gloss while maintaining suitability.

In view of the above situation, the present inventors have been keen to obtain an ink jet recording sheet which maintains the high surface smoothness and high gloss inherent in cast coated paper and is excellent in ink jet recording (printing) suitability. Repeated research.
As a result, they have found that they can be achieved by the following method, and have completed the present invention. Ink jet recording sheet comprising a support and a water-based ink-receptive undercoat layer containing a pigment and an adhesive as main components, and a water-based ink-receptive or / and water-ink permeable glossy layer provided on the undercoat layer. In the above, the coating liquid for the gloss layer is directly applied on the mirror drum, and is pressed against the undercoat layer surface of the support coated with the undercoat layer, and then separated from the mirror drum to transfer the gloss layer onto the undercoat layer. A method for manufacturing a recording sheet. Further, the support further has an intermediate layer on the undercoat layer, and the intermediate layer surface is pressed against a surface directly coated with the glossy layer coating liquid on the mirror surface drum, and then peeled off from the mirror surface drum The glossy layer may be transferred onto the intermediate layer. Further, a coating liquid for an intermediate layer is further coated on the mirror-surface drum directly coated with a coating liquid for a gloss layer, and is pressed against the undercoat layer surface of the support coated with the undercoat layer, and then the mirror surface The gloss layer and the intermediate layer may be transferred from the drum to the undercoat layer.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION As a support used in the present invention,
The material is not particularly limited as long as it is a flexible sheet-shaped material. However, since the material is dried on a mirror-surface drum, if it is air-permeable so that evaporated water can pass through the support, excellent gloss can be obtained. It is easy to produce and is preferable in terms of productivity. However, unlike a general cast paper manufacturing process, since the gloss layer (cast layer) has been dried to some extent on a mirror drum in advance, it is possible to manufacture even a support having poor air permeability. Specific examples of the preferred support include paper made from wood pulp or the like, and acidic paper or neutral paper used for coated paper such as general coated paper, art paper, and cast coated paper. It is preferably used.

The gloss layer (cast layer) needs to be ink-receptive and / or ink-permeable. For the purpose of quickly absorbing ink, it mainly has an ink-permeable property and is used as an undercoat layer. It is better to absorb and fix the ink. The coating composition for a glossy layer (cast layer) that imparts such performance is not particularly limited, but, for example, a temperature of 40 ° C. or higher obtained by polymerizing a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond. A coating composition containing a copolymer composition having a glass transition point as a main component can be used.

The above-mentioned copolymer composition will be described in more detail. A monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond (hereinafter referred to as an ethylenic monomer) used as a main component of a coating composition for a gloss layer (cast layer) is described below. Examples of the polymer composition obtained by polymerization include acrylic acid esters having an alkyl group carbon number of 1 to 18, such as methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate butyl acrylate, 2 ethylhexyl acrylate, lauryl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, and glycidyl acrylate. Methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate, glycidyl methacrylate, etc., having 1 to 18 alkyl group carbon atoms, methacrylate, styrene, α-methyl Styrene, vinyltoluene, acrylonitrile, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, vinyl acetate,
It is a polymer obtained by polymerizing ethylenic monomers such as vinyl propionate, acrylamide, N-methylolacrylamide, ethylene and butadiene.

The polymer may be a copolymer using two or more kinds of ethylenic monomers as needed, or may be a polymer or a substituted derivative of the copolymer. Incidentally, examples of the substituted derivative include, for example, those having a carboxyl group or those having been rendered alkali-reactive. Further, the above ethylenic monomer is polymerized in the presence of colloidal silica, and Si-
It is also possible to use it in the form of a complex by an OR (R: polymer component) bond. The content ratio of the above monomer and colloidal silica is 90/10 to 10/90 by weight.
The degree is preferred. In this case, it is easier to obtain excellent gloss and print density than simply mixing the polymer and colloidal silica.

As described above, the polymer composition obtained by polymerizing the above-mentioned ethylenic monomer has a glass transition point of 4%.
Those having a temperature of 0 ° C. or higher are preferred, and more preferably 50 to
A temperature in the range of 0 ° C. is desirable. The glass transition point can be adjusted by, for example, the type of the ethylenic monomer or the degree of crosslinking of the polymer. For example, the glass transition point can be increased by adding 50% by weight or more of a monomer such as styrene which relatively increases the glass transition point.
In the coating composition for the gloss layer (cast layer), in addition to the above polymer, the same pigment as that used in the undercoat layer described later can be blended.
500 parts by weight or less is preferable with respect to 0 parts by weight. In this case, in order to obtain excellent surface gloss and printing density, those having a small particle size are preferable, and those having a particle size of 300 nm or less are particularly preferable.

In a conventional cast coated paper, in order to obtain excellent surface gloss, when performing a cast finish, a sufficient amount of resin in the coating liquid is formed into a film to obtain a cast gloss. However, such a method is not preferable because the porosity of the surface of the cast coated paper is reduced, and as a result, the absorption of ink during ink jet recording is reduced. In order not to reduce the absorption of the ink, using a copolymer composition having a high glass transition point, and performing a cast finish in a state where the copolymer composition does not completely form a film,
The decrease in the porosity of the surface of the gloss layer (cast layer) is slight, the ink absorption does not decrease, and a cast coated surface having an excellent gloss surface can be obtained. On the other hand, when the glass transition point of the polymer composition is less than 40 ° C., the heat of the cast drum surface makes it easy for the resin component to form a film more than necessary, and the porosity of the cast coated paper surface decreases, Although the gloss value of the surface is high, the ink absorbency tends to decrease, which is not preferable.

In order to control whiteness, viscosity, fluidity, etc., pigments used in general printing coated papers and ink jet papers are included in the coating composition for the gloss layer (cast layer).
Various assistants such as a dispersant, a thickener, an antifoaming agent, a coloring agent, an antistatic agent, and a preservative are appropriately added. The coating liquid for the gloss layer (cast layer) thus obtained is applied to a blade coater, an air knife coater, a roll coater, a brush coater,
The coating is performed directly on the mirror-surface drum by various known coating apparatuses such as a chaplex coater, a bar coater, a gravure coater, an offset gravure coater, and a die coater. Among these coating devices, a pre-metering type coater such as a gravure coater, offset gravure coater, and die coater is particularly preferable because it is easy to coat the mirror drum with high accuracy. In this case, the coating amount of the coating liquid for the gloss layer is 0.2 to 30 g / m ² , preferably 1 to 10 g / m ² as a dry solid content. Here, if it is less than 0.2 g / m ^2, it is difficult to obtain sufficient gloss, and 30 g / m 2
^{If it is more than 2} , the density at the time of inkjet recording may decrease or the ink may not be sufficiently absorbed.

Next, an aqueous ink receptive undercoat layer containing a pigment and an adhesive as main components will be described. The undercoat layer is a layer capable of receiving an aqueous ink used for ink jet recording, and its material, composition, structure, manufacturing method, and the like are not limited, but specific examples include the following.
Examples of pigments include kaolin, clay, calcined clay,
Amorphous silica, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide, aluminum hydroxide, calcium carbonate, satin white, aluminum silicate, alumina, colloidal silica, zeolite, sepiolite, smectite, magnesium silicate,
Calcium silicate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium oxide, diatomaceous earth, hydrotalcite, styrene plastic pigment, urea resin plastic pigment,
Various known and used pigments in the general coated paper manufacturing field, such as benzoguanamine-based plastic pigments, can be used.

Among the above-mentioned pigments, in order to make the structure of the coating layer porous and excellent in ink absorption,
Pigments such as amorphous silica, aluminum oxide, zeolite and smectite are particularly preferably used. Next, as adhesives, proteins such as casein, soybean protein, and synthetic protein; various starches such as starch and oxidized starch; polyvinyl alcohol; cellulose derivatives such as carboxymethylcellulose and methylcellulose; styrene-butadiene copolymer; Methacrylate-butadiene copolymer conjugated diene-based polymer latex, acrylic polymer latex, vinyl-based polymer latex such as ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, etc., and conventionally known adhesives generally used for coated paper The agents are used alone or in combination.
The amount of the adhesive is 5 to 100% by weight based on the weight of the pigment.
More preferably, it is adjusted in the range of 10 to 50% by weight.

The undercoat layer may be a polyalkylene polyamine such as polyethylene polyamine or polypropylene polyamine, or a derivative thereof, an acrylic resin having a tertiary amino group or a quaternary ammonium group, which is conventionally used for ink jet recording paper. It is preferable to use a cationic resin such as diacrylamine in the range of 1 to 50 parts by weight, more preferably 5 to 30 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the pigment for the purpose of improving the water resistance of a printed image.

In addition, various auxiliaries such as a dispersant, a thickener, an antifoaming agent, a coloring agent, an antistatic agent and an antiseptic used in the production of general coated paper are appropriately added. Thus, the composition for an undercoat coating layer composed of the above materials is generally adjusted to a solid concentration of about 1 to 65% by weight, and
² to 50 g by dry weight on a support of about 400 g / m 2
g / m ^2, more preferably from 5 to 20 g / m ² about to become as blade coater, air knife coater, roll coater, brush coater, champflex coater, bar coater, gravure coater, offset gravure coater, die coater or the like Is applied and dried by a known and publicly-known coating apparatus (however, as will be described later, the undercoat layer may be pressed against the gloss layer in a wet state). Further, if necessary, a smoothing treatment such as super calendering or brushing can be performed after the undercoat layer is dried.

According to the present invention, as described above,
A water-based ink receptive undercoat layer containing a pigment and an adhesive as a main component is provided, and the water-based ink receptivity or / and /
And an ink jet recording sheet provided with a water-based ink-permeable glossy layer, the glossy layer coating liquid is directly applied on a mirror drum and pressed against the undercoat layer surface of the support coated with the undercoat layer, and then This is a method for producing an ink jet recording sheet that peels off from a mirror drum and transfers a glossy layer onto an undercoat layer. Here, it is preferable that the glossy layer is dried to some extent and then pressed against it. In this case, (a) directly coating on a pre-heated mirror drum and drying, and (b) directly on the mirror drum After coating, hot air, infrared,
It may be dried by drying means such as microwaves,
Either method may be used, or both may be used in combination.

In order to make the undercoat layer and the glossy layer adhere to each other,
It is preferable that the pressure contact be performed while at least one of the undercoat layer and the gloss layer is in a wet state. Here, the wet state refers to an undried and semi-dried state. When the glossy layer is directly coated on the heated mirror drum, even if the surface pressed against the undercoat layer is in a wet state, the portion in contact with the mirror surface is dried first so that the excellent gloss is obtained. It is preferable because a surface having smoothness is formed. In order to make at least one of the undercoat layer and the glossy layer wet, the pre-dried one can be re-wetted by a method such as water coating.

Further, in the present invention, as described above, an aqueous ink-receptive and / or aqueous ink-permeable intermediate layer may be provided. Here, the coating liquid serving as the aqueous ink-receptive or / and aqueous ink-permeable intermediate layer functions as an adhesive layer between the glossy layer and the undercoat layer, and its material and composition are particularly limited. However, specific examples include those exemplified as the coating liquid for the glossy layer or the coating liquid for the undercoat layer.

As described above, in the present invention, a gloss layer coating solution is applied directly on a mirror drum to form a gloss layer in advance, and then transferred onto the undercoat layer. Therefore, the penetration of the glossy layer coating liquid into the undercoat layer is small, and does not hinder the ink absorbency of the undercoat layer.
An ink jet recording sheet having excellent ink jet recording suitability and having an extremely high gloss and a high smooth surface can be obtained. Further, there is an advantage that the thickness of the gloss layer can be made constant.

[0024]

The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the following Examples, but it should be understood that the present invention is by no means restricted thereto.
Parts and% in Examples are parts by weight and% by weight, respectively, unless otherwise specified.

Example 1 100 parts of amorphous silica was used as a pigment, 20 parts of polyvinyl alcohol was used as an adhesive, and dicyandiamide resin (trade name: Neofix F) was used as a cationic resin.
Y / Nikka Chemical Co., Ltd.) (10 parts) and sodium polyphosphate (0.5 part) as a dispersant were added to prepare an undercoating coating solution having a solid content of 20%. This undercoating coating solution was applied to a base paper of 100 g / m ² of rice tsubo by an air knife coater and dried so as to have a dry weight of 10 g / m ² .

On the other hand, as a cast coating solution, a composite of styrene-2-methylhexyl acrylate copolymer having a glass transition point of 80 ° C. and colloidal silica (Movinyl 805)
0; manufactured by Hoechst Synthetic Co., Ltd.) (100 parts), and 3 parts of lecithin as a release agent to prepare a casting coating liquid having a solid concentration of 30%. The coating liquid is applied on a mirror drum having a surface temperature of 75 ° C. by an offset gravure coater so that the dry weight becomes 5 g / m ² , and the surface (the surface in contact with the surface provided with the undercoat layer) While in a wet state, was pressed against the undercoat layer surface of the base paper provided with the undercoat layer, dried, and released to obtain an ink jet recording sheet.

Example 2 90 parts of alumina oxide, light calcium carbonate 1 as a pigment
0 parts, polyvinyl alcohol 20 parts as adhesive
Dicyandiamide resin (trade name:
Neofix FY / Nikka Chemical Co., Ltd.) 10 parts,
As a dispersant, 0.5 part of sodium polyphosphate was added, and solid
An undercoating coating liquid having a concentration of 18% was prepared. This undercoat
100 g / m2^Two1 by dry weight on base paper
0 g / m ^TwoWith an air knife coater so that
It was dried.

On the other hand, as a cast coating liquid, a composite of styrene-2-methylhexyl acrylate copolymer having a glass transition point of 80 ° C. and colloidal silica (Movinyl 805)
0; manufactured by Hoechst Synthetic Co., Ltd.) (100 parts), and 3 parts of lecithin as a release agent to prepare a casting coating liquid having a solid concentration of 30%. The coating liquid is applied on a mirror drum having a surface temperature of 75 ° C. by an offset gravure coater so that the dry weight becomes 5 g / m ² , and the surface (the surface in contact with the surface provided with the undercoat layer) While in a wet state, was pressed against the undercoat layer surface of the base paper provided with the undercoat layer, dried, and released to obtain an ink jet recording sheet.

Example 3 70 parts of amorphous silica and 30 parts of magnesium carbonate as pigments
Part, 5 parts of oxidized starch as adhesive, 15 parts of polyvinyl alcohol, 8 parts of polyethylenepolyamine resin (trade name: Neofix RP-70 / Nika Chemical Co., Ltd.) as cationic resin, and poly as dispersant 0.4 parts of sodium phosphate was added to prepare an undercoating coating liquid having a solid content of 30%. This undercoating liquid was applied to a rice tsubo 80 g / m ²
Was coated with a blade coater and dried to a dry weight of 9 g / m ² .

On the other hand, as a cast coating liquid, a composite of styrene-2-methylhexyl acrylate copolymer having a glass transition point of 80 ° C. and colloidal silica (Movinyl 805)
0; manufactured by Hoechst Synthetic Co., Ltd.) (100 parts), and 3 parts of lecithin as a release agent to prepare a casting coating liquid having a solid concentration of 30%. The coating liquid is applied on a mirror drum having a surface temperature of 75 ° C. by an offset gravure coater so that the dry weight becomes 5 g / m ² , and the surface (the surface in contact with the surface provided with the undercoat layer) While in a wet state, was pressed against the undercoat layer surface of the base paper provided with the undercoat layer, dried, and released to obtain an ink jet recording sheet.

Example 4 Amorphous silica (100 parts) was used as a pigment, polyvinyl alcohol (20 parts) was used as an adhesive, and a dicyandiamide resin (trade name: Neofix F) was used as a cationic resin.
Y / Nikka Chemical Co., Ltd.) (10 parts) and sodium polyphosphate (0.5 part) as a dispersant were added to prepare an undercoating coating solution having a solid content of 20%. This undercoating coating solution was applied to a base paper of 100 g / m ² of rice tsubo by an air knife coater and dried so as to have a dry weight of 10 g / m ² .

On the other hand, as a cast coating liquid, a composite of styrene-2-methylhexyl acrylate copolymer having a glass transition point of 80 ° C. and colloidal silica (Movinyl 805)
0; manufactured by Hoechst Synthetic Co., Ltd.) (100 parts), and 3 parts of lecithin as a release agent to prepare a casting coating liquid having a solid concentration of 30%. This coating liquid was applied on a mirror drum having a surface temperature of 75 ° C. by an offset gravure coater so that the dry weight was 2 g / m ² , and further, on the undercoat layer surface of the base paper provided with the undercoat layer, The above cast coating solution was applied using a roll coater so that the dry weight was 4 g / m ² , and immediately (while in a wet state) was pressed against the layer surface previously coated on a mirror drum and dried. The mold was released to obtain an ink jet recording sheet.

Comparative Example 1 100 parts of amorphous silica was used as a pigment, 20 parts of polyvinyl alcohol was used as an adhesive, and a dicyandiamide resin (trade name: Neofix F) was used as a cationic resin.
Y / Nikka Chemical Co., Ltd.) (10 parts) and sodium polyphosphate (0.5 part) as a dispersant were added to prepare an undercoating coating solution having a solid content of 20%. This undercoating coating solution was applied to a base paper of 100 g / m ² of rice tsubo by an air knife coater and dried so as to have a dry weight of 10 g / m ² .

On the other hand, as a cast coating liquid, a composite of styrene-2-methylhexyl acrylate copolymer having a glass transition point of 80 ° C. and colloidal silica (Movinyl 805)
0; manufactured by Hoechst Synthetic Co., Ltd.) (100 parts), and 3 parts of lecithin as a release agent to prepare a casting coating liquid having a solid concentration of 30%. The coating liquid was applied to the undercoat layer surface of the base paper provided with the undercoat layer using a roll coater so that the dry weight was 6 g / m ² , and immediately (while in a wet state) the surface temperature was 75 g / m ^2. C., was pressed against a mirror-surface drum, dried, and released to obtain a sheet for inkjet recording.

Comparative Example 2 100 parts of amorphous silica were used as a pigment, 20 parts of polyvinyl alcohol was used as an adhesive, and a dicyandiamide resin (trade name: Neofix F) was used as a cationic resin.
Y / Nikka Chemical Co., Ltd.) (10 parts) and 0.5 parts of sodium polyphosphate as a dispersant were added to prepare a coating solution having a solid content of 20%. The coating liquid was applied on a base paper of 100 g / m ² of rice tsubo by an air knife coater and dried so as to have a dry weight of 10 g / m ² to obtain an ink jet recording sheet.

The gloss of white paper and the suitability for ink jet recording of the ink jet recording sheet thus obtained are shown in Table 1.
It is summarized and shown. In addition, about the said evaluation, evaluation was performed by the following methods.

[White paper gloss] Measured according to JIS-P8142. [Surface smoothness] The surface smoothness was visually determined. A: The surface is mirror-like and extremely smooth. Δ: The surface is glossy, but the surface irregularities are conspicuous. ×: no gloss on the surface.

[Inkjet recording suitability] (Absorptivity of ink for inkjet recording) Color inkjet printer BJC-6 manufactured by Canon Inc.
Printing was performed using 00J (ink jet recording apparatus), and the drying property of the ink was visually evaluated. ：: No stain at all even if touched with a finger immediately after printing. Δ: Slight stain when touched with finger immediately after printing, but no practical problem. ×: Due to poor drying of the ink, the ink flowed during printing and was not practical. (Printing density of ink-jet recording ink after recording) Color ink-jet printer BJ manufactured by Canon Inc.
C-600J is used to perform black solid printing, and the ink density of the portion is measured using a Macbeth reflection densitometer RD-914 (Macb
eth PROCESS MEASUREMENTS).

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[Table 1]

[0040]

As described above, an ink jet recording sheet which maintains high surface smoothness and high gloss and is excellent in ink jet recording (printing) suitability is obtained.

Claims (3)

[Claims] An aqueous ink-receptive undercoat layer containing a pigment and an adhesive as a main component is provided on a support, and a water-based ink-receptive and / or aqueous ink-permeable glossy layer is provided on the undercoat layer. In the ink jet recording sheet, the gloss layer coating liquid is directly coated on the mirror drum, pressed against the undercoat layer surface of the support coated with the undercoat layer, and then peeled off from the mirror drum to form the gloss layer on the undercoat layer. A method for producing an ink jet recording sheet to be transferred to the upper side. 2. The support further comprises an intermediate layer on the undercoat layer, and the intermediate layer surface is pressed against a surface directly coated with the glossy layer coating liquid on the mirror drum, and then the mirror surface is pressed. The method for producing an inkjet recording sheet according to claim 1, wherein the gloss layer is transferred from the drum to the intermediate layer. 3. A coating solution for an intermediate layer is further coated on the mirror-surface drum directly coated with a coating solution for a glossy layer, and is pressed against an undercoat layer surface of a support on which an undercoat layer is coated. 2. The method for producing an ink jet recording sheet according to claim 1, wherein the glossy layer and the intermediate layer are transferred from the drum onto the undercoat layer.