Photographic printing method, manufacturing method of photographic printed material, and printing apparatus

摘要

A photographic printing method includes the steps of thermally transferring a color material onto a recording medium; further transferring an image protection layer thermally onto the recording medium having the color material; and processing the surface of the image protection layer so as to satisfy following conditions (1) to (6),(1) The 20° specular glossiness of the surface of the image protection layer is 30% or less;(2) When the optical comb width is 2.0 mm, the image clarity value is 30% or less;(3) When the optical comb width is 1.0 mm, the image clarity value is 5.0% or more;(4) When the optical comb width is 0.5 mm, the image clarity value is 4.0% or more;(5) When the optical comb width is 0.25 mm, the image clarity value is 3.0% or more; and(6) When the optical comb width is 0.125 mm, the image clarity value is 3.0% or more.