HEAT DYE TRANSFERRING PLASTICIZED CROSSLINKING ACCEPTIVE ELEMENT

• Main Authors: POPE BRIAN T, BODEM GEORGE B
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.08.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; COLOUR PRINTING; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; LINING MACHINES; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; STAMPS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ARTCOLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat dye transferring plasticized crosslinking acceptive element having an improved dye incorporating amount and image stability. SOLUTION: The heat dye transferring dye acceptive element comprises a support having a dye image acceptive layer containing a polymer binder and an aliphatic ester plasticizer on its one surface. In this case, the polymer binder has a crosslinking polymer net-like structure formed by reacting an aliphatic glycol with at least one of multifunctional insocyanates: (a) a polycarbonate polyol having at least two end hydroxy groups and having a mean molecular weight of 1,000 to 10,000 and (b) formulae of an HO-(CH2)n-OH, an HO-[(CH2)n-O]m-H or an HO-[CH2)5-CO2)]p-[(CH2)n-O]m-H] (where in is between 3 and 10, m is between 3 and 60, and p is between 2 and 16).