IMAGE FORMING METHOD

PURPOSE:To enable the stable manufacture of precise patterns in a large number of sheets by transferring a resist ink-layer to a ink-acceptable part only. CONSTITUTION:A photosensitive sheet 11 is constituted of a ink-acceptable photosensitive layer 13 formed on an ink-acceptable substrate (photo) 12 and further, an ink-nonacceptable layer 14 formed on the photosensitive layer 13. The photosensitive layer 11 is exposed and developed to be modified to a photosensitive sheet 15 on which the ink-nonacceptable part made of an ink- nonacceptable layer 14 and the ink-acceptable part made of the substrate (photo) 12 are formed. Further, a resist ink-layer image-forming surface of the photosensitive 11 and an ink-layer acceptable surface of a image reception sheet provided with the ink-layer acceptable surface having an adhesive property to a hardened resist ink-layer are brought into surface to surface contact with each other and are heated and pressurized to form a laminated body of the photosensitive sheet 11 and the image reception sheet. After the resist ink-layer is hardened by being irradiated with an active light beam, the photosensitive sheet 11 and the image reception sheet are peeled to form an image on the image reception sheet.