Abstract:
A thermal imaging method is provided which comprises heating imagewise a di- or triarylmethane compound possessing within its di- or triarylmethane structure an aryl group substituted in the ortho position to the meso carbon atom with a moiety ring-closed on the meso carbon atom directly through a nitrogen atom, which nitrogen atom is also bound to a group with a masked acyl substituent that undergoes fragmentation upon heating to liberate the acyl group for effecting intramolecular acylation of said nitrogen atom to form a new group in the ortho position whereby the di- or triarylmethane compound is rendered colored in an imagewise pattern corresponding to said imagewise heating.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a color-shifted dye compounds containing at least one thermally unstable carbamate moiety which are useful in thermal imaging. These compounds may be represented by the formula [M--(X).sub.q ].sub.p D wherein M is a carbamate moiety; X is --N.dbd., --SO.sub.2 -- or --CH.sub.2 --; D taken with X and M represents the radical of a color-shifted organic dye, said carbamate moiety M comprising a tert-alkoxycarbonyl group, ##STR1## wherein R' is halomethyl or alkyl.
Abstract:
This invention relates to photographic products and processes employing silver halide solvent precursors of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a monovalent organic radical; R.sup.2 is hydrogen or a monovalent organic radical; Z is a moiety that undergoes .beta.-elimination in aqueous alkaline solution and preferably is a moiety that undergoes .beta.-elimination in aqueous alkaline solution to release a photographically useful reagent; and n is an integer 3, 4 or 5.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method of synthesizing bis-sulfones of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each are hydrogen, alkyl, phenalkyl, phenyl or phenyl-substituted with an electron-donating or electron-withdrawing group and n is an integer 2, 3 or 4 (a) by reacting a 1,3-dithio compound with n-butyllithium to generate the anion of said compound, (b) reacting said anion with a carbonyl compound to give the 2-substituted carbonol anion intermediate, (c) reacting said intermediate with an acyl chloride or a chloroformate to give the corresponding ester, and (d) reacting said ester with a peracid to give the bis-sulfone product. The subject invention also is concerned with the novel intermediates of step (c).
Abstract:
To delete undesired ink-receptive areas on a wet lithographic printing construction, an oleophobic material is applied to the hydrophilic surface of the plate that has suffered contamination and/or scratching, and allowed to cure. So long as the hydrophilic surface is capable of permanently bonding the oleophobic deletion agent, the areas to which that agent has been applied will not accept ink.
Abstract:
Wet lithographic printing plates include a protective layer that provides protection against handling and environmental damage, extends plate shelf life, and entrains debris generated by ablation. The layer washes away during the printing make-ready process, effectively cleaning the plate and disappearing without the need for a separate removal process.
Abstract:
A unique method/system for simultaneously creating and transferring a contrasting pattern of intelligence on and from a composite ablation-transfer imaging medium to a receptor element in contiguous registration therewith is improvedly radiation sensitive and versatile, is kinetically rapid and not dependent on a sensitized ablative topcoat, and is well adopted for such applications as, e.g., color proofing and printing, the security coding of various documents and the production of masks for the graphic arts and printed circuit industries; the composite ablation-transfer imaging medium, per se, comprises a support substrate (i), at least one intermediate "dynamic release layer" (ii) essentially coextensive therewith and an imaging radiation-ablative carrier topcoat (iii) also essentially coextensive therewith, said imaging radiation-ablative carrier topcoat (iii) including an imaging amount of a contrast imaging material contained therein, and said at least one dynamic release layer (ii) absorbing such imaging radiation at a rate sufficient to effect the imagewise ablation mass transfer of at least said carrier topcoat (iii).
Abstract:
A unique method/system for simultaneously creating and transferring a contrasting pattern of intelligence on and from a composite ablation-transfer imaging medium to a receptor element in contiguous registration therewith is improvedly radiation sensitive and versatile, is kinetically rapid and not dependent on a sensitized ablative topcoat, and is well adopted for such applications as, e.g., color proofing and printing, the security coding of various documents and the production of masks for the graphic arts and printed circuit industries; the composite ablation-transfer imaging medium, per se, comprises a support substrate (i), at least one intermediate "dynamic release layer" (ii) essentially coextensive therewith and an imaging radiation-ablative carrier topcoat (iii) also essentially coextensive therewith, said imaging radiation-ablative carrier topcoat (iii) including an imaging amount of a contrast imaging material contained therein, and said at least one dynamic release layer (ii) absorbing such imaging radiation at a rate sufficient to effect the imagewise ablation mass transfer of at least said carrier topcoat (iii).
Abstract:
Leuco dyes are provided which comprise the coupling product of a N-acyl substituted aromatic amino color developer and a dye-forming coupler moiety substituted at the coupling carbon with a thermally removable leaving group. Thermal imaging systems employing these leuco dyes have the advantage of reduced bubble formation relative to thermal imaging systems employing prior art leuco dyes containing a group which thermally fragments into one or more gases.
Abstract:
A thermal imaging method for forming color images is provided which employs as the color image-forming material, a colorless precursor of a preformed image dye possessing at least one thermal protecting group that undergoes fragmentation upon heating and at least one leaving group that undergoes irreversible elimination upon heating, said protecting and leaving groups maintaining the precursor in its colorless form until heat is applied to effect removal of these groups whereby the precursor is converted to an image dye.