to about 150 mn surfactants zonyl u00ae fsn e i du pont de nemours and co and olin u00ae 10 g dixie chemical co were added in small amounts as coating aids the above coating solutions were simultaneously bead coated at 40 u00b0 c on polyethylene coated paper base which had been previously subjected to corona discharge treatment the image receiving layer was coated on top of the base layer the coating was then dried at 60 u00b0 c by forced air to yield a two layer recording element in which the thicknesses of the bottom and topmost layers were 40 u03bcm 43 g m 2 and 2 u03bcm 2 2 g m 2 respectively the following commercially available receiving element with a porous image receiving layer was used konica photo quality ink jet paper qp no kjp lt gh 15 qp pi inks containing the dyes employed in the invention as illustrated above and identified in table 3 were prepared with de ionized water containing humectants of diethylene glycol and glycerol each at 6 a biocide proxel u00ae gxl at 0 003 wt and a surfactant surfynol u00ae 465 air products co at 0 5 wt the dye concentrations were based on solution absorption spectra and chosen such that the final ink when diluted 1 1000 would yield a transmission optical density of approximately 1 0 these inks were prepared the same as the invention inks except that the.