To provide a photocurable ink composition exhibiting an excellent close adhesion in printing on various plastics, glasses and metal media, and also capable of obtaining a printed matter excellent in hardness and scratch resistance, and the printed matter printed by using the same.

This photocurable type ink composition contains (P) 2 to 50 pts.wt. acrylic polymer containing hydroxy group of 1 to 200 mgKOH/g hydroxy value and having 1,000 to 100,000 molecular weight, (M) 50 to 98 pts.wt. radically polymerizable compound and (C) 0.1 to 15 pts.wt. photo polymerization initiator based on 100 pts.wt total of the (P) and (M).