Abstract:
Disclosed is a thermal-transfer recording process employing a transfer material and a image-receiving sheet. The transfer material comprises a support film and an image forming layer containing a coloring material and an organic polymer, and the image-receiving sheet comprises a substrate and a photopolymerizable or photosensitive thermal-adhesive layer. The process comprises placing the transfer material on the image-receiving sheet to form a composite; imagewise heating the surface of the support film of the composite using a thermal head; separating the transfer material from the image-receiving sheet leaving the image forming layer in the heated area on the photopolymerizable or photosensitive thermal-adhesive layer to form a colored replica image on the image-receiving layer; and either exposing the whole surface of the photopolymerizable thermal-adhesive layer to radiation to cure the photopolymerizable thermal-adhesive layer; or exposing the whole surface of the photosensitive thermal-adhesive layer and the image forming layer to UV-rays and treating the exposed layer with a developing solution to remove the exposed layer in the area having no colored replica image thereon.
Abstract:
An image forming method comprises the steps of applying a laser light imagewise and sequentially onto a laminate for image formation and separating the image receiving sheet from other materials of the laminate so as to keep on the image receiving sheet an imagewise transferred image formation layer comprising the thermoplastic resin and pigment. The laminate for image formation comprises, an image transfer sheet comprising, in order, a support sheet, a light-heat conversion layer containing a light-heat conversion material which absorbs a laser light and instantly produces a heat, a heat sensitive releasing layer containing a material which produces a gas upon receiving the heat produced in the light-heat conversion layer, and an image formation layer which comprises a thermoplastic resin and a pigment, and an image receiving sheet via a thermally fusible material in the form of a large number of dots or in the form of lines to divide an interface between the image formation layer and the image receiving sheet into different areas. The material of the heat sensitive releasing layer can be incorporated into the light-heat conversion layer.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an image forming process employing a light-sensitive image forming material. The image forming material comprises a support, a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer, superposed in order. The process comprises the steps of imagewise exposing the image forming material to light so as to increase a bonding strength between the light-heat conversion layer and the image forming layer in the exposed area, pressing a receiving sheet on the light-heat conversion layer, and removing the receiving sheet from the image forming material to form a negative image on the receiving sheet in the unexposed area and to leave a positive image on the light-heat conversion layer in the exposed area. Otherwise, the process comprises the steps of imagewise exposing the image forming material to light so as to decrease a bonding strength between the conversion layer and the image forming layer in the exposed area, pressing a receiving sheet on the conversion layer, and removing the receiving sheet from the image forming material to form a positive image on the receiving sheet in the exposed area and to leave a negative image on the conversion layer in the unexposed area.
Abstract:
An optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a recording layer made of metal and/or semi-metal and on which data can be recorded with a laser beam, wherein a plasma polymerization layer is formed on at least an upper surface of said recording layer.
Abstract:
Methods for copying optical information are disclosed. The methods comprise the steps of disposing a master mask with a tracking signal or other information recorded therein over an optical memory material comprised of heat mode recording material which can be thermally altered in order to deform or remove the material upon the application of an energy beam, permitting recording on the altered recording material and irradiating the master disk with flash light for a period of 1 microsecond or less, or in the alternative, scanning with a laser beam focused to a spot having a diameter of at least 10 .mu.m on the master mask with the exposure time at each area of the optical memory material being preferably 1 microsecond or less.
Abstract:
A heat-mode recording material is disclosed. The material comprises a base which is overlaid with a recording layer made of a metal, semimetal or semiconductor containing at least hydrogen.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a thermal-transfer recording process employing a transfer material and a image-receiving sheet. The transfer material comprises a support film and an image forming layer containing a coloring material and an organic polymer, and the image-receiving sheet comprises a substrate and a photopolymerizable or photosensitive thermal-adhesive layer. The process comprises placing the transfer material on the image-receiving sheet to form a composite; imagewise heating the surface of the support film of the composite using a thermal head; separating the transfer material from the image-receiving sheet leaving the image forming layer in the heated area on the photopolymerizable or photosensitive thermal-adhesive layer to form a colored replica image on the image-receiving layer; and either exposing the whole surface of the photopolymerizable thermal-adhesive layer to radiation to cure the photopolymerizable thermal-adhesive layer; or exposing the whole surface of the photosensitive thermal-adhesive layer and the image forming layer to UV-rays and treating the exposed layer with a developing solution to remove the exposed layer in the area having no colored replica image thereon.
Abstract:
A negative-working image forming process which comprises uniformly exposing a photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon a sensitive layer comprising (i) an o-quinonediazide compound and (ii) a second compound, to actinic radiation which is able to convert the o-quinonediazide compound to the corresponding indenecarboxylic acid compound, and subsequent to said uniformly exposing imagewise exposing said exposed photosensitive material to a laser beam to thereby render the indenecarboxylic acid compound of the imagewise exposed areas convert to the corresponding indene compound and developing with an alkaline developing solution to dissolve out the unexposed area to the laser beam, wherein said second compound reduces the rate of dissolution of the laser exposed areas in the developing solution by converting the indenecarboxylic acid to the corresponding indene compound, whereby said image results.