| abstract |
A non-absorbing material capable of forming a good ink-jet recorded image on a non-absorbing surface without sacrificing the printability of the ink jet recording method and without causing bleeding and beading. Provided are an image forming method and an image forming apparatus capable of greatly expanding an application range of image formation on a surface. At least a step (a) of hydrophilizing a non-absorbable image recording surface, a step (b) of applying a viscosity increasing component of ink to the hydrophilized image recording surface, and And (c) forming an image by ejecting ink using an ink jet recording apparatus onto the image recording surface to which the chemical component has been added. [Selection diagram] Fig. 1 |