IMAGE RECEIVING SHEET FOR THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING

• Main Authors: MATSUKAWA MASAO, TANI HIDEKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.09.1987
• Edition: 4
• Subjects: COLOUR PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PURPOSE:To obtain a recording image having high color density with high resolving power and to improve the preservability of a recording image, by applying processing to the surface of an image receiving sheet, which has an image receiving layer containing not only a resin easily dyeable by a sublimable or evaporable dye but also pigment, by a casting method. CONSTITUTION:As the pigment used as the component of a coating solution of an image receiving layer, not only inorg. pigment such as clay or kaolin but also org. pigment such as a urea/formalin resin or polyurethane are designat ed. An easily deyable resin is easily dyed with a sublimable or evaporable dye, and a polyvinyl choride and a melamine resin, etc. are designated and a water-soluble or emulsion type resin thereof is used. An image receiving sheet is prepared by applying a a coating solution containing the dyeable resin and the pigment to the surface of a base material such as paper, synthetic paper or a metal foil and applying processing treatment thereto by a cast- coating method and has a porous image receiving surface with Beck smoothness of 1,000sec or more.