EP0545893A1 - Feuille réceptrice d'image pour l'impression par transfert thermique - Google Patents

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EP0545893A1
EP0545893A1 EP19930100728 EP93100728A EP0545893A1 EP 0545893 A1 EP0545893 A1 EP 0545893A1 EP 19930100728 EP19930100728 EP 19930100728 EP 93100728 A EP93100728 A EP 93100728A EP 0545893 A1 EP0545893 A1 EP 0545893A1
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Hiromasa Kondo
Yoshitaka Okumura
Terunobu Fukui
Noritaka Egashira
Tamami Iwata
Naoto Satake
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M2205/00—Printing methods or features related to printing methods; Location or type of the layers
    • B41M2205/02—Dye diffusion thermal transfer printing (D2T2)
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M2205/00—Printing methods or features related to printing methods; Location or type of the layers
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
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    • B41M2205/32—Thermal receivers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
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    • B41M5/50—Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity, e.g. for ink-jet or thermal dye transfer recording
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    • B41M5/5254—Macromolecular coatings characterised by the use of polymers obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds, e.g. vinyl polymers
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    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
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  • the present invention relates to an improvement in image-receiving sheets for thermal transfer printing which are adapted for printing images thereon by transfer of a sublimable dye of a thermal transfer sheet by application of heat from a thermal head in accordance with image signals. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved image-receiving sheet with a two-layered intermediate layer for thermal transfer printing.
  • Thermal printing systems in which printed images are obtained upon reception of input signals are made up of a relatively simple apparatus and are inexpensive and low in noises, so that they have increasing utility in various fields such as facsimiles, terminal printers for electronic computers, printers for measuring instruments, video printers, and the like.
  • a recording medium generally used in these thermal printing systems is a so-called color-developing, heat-sensitive recording paper having a recording layer which undergoes a physical or chemical change by application of heat to form a color.
  • the recording paper of the color developing type has disadvantages in that it is liable to undesirably develop the color during the process of fabrication or during storage.
  • the image printed on the paper is poor in storage stability and is apt to fade on contact with organic solvents or chemicals.
  • thermosensitive recording paper a thermal transfer printing system in which a recording medium utilizing a dye or colorant is used instead of the color-developing thermosensitive recording paper.
  • a colorant or colored dye is caused to melt, evaporate or sublimate by application of heat and transferred on a recording paper, thereby forming a record image by adhesion, adsorption or reception of the dye on the recording paper.
  • a mechanism as is shown in Fig. 2.
  • a thermal transfer sheet 201 having a dye layer on a substrate and a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet 203 set on a platen roller 202 are superposed and heated from the non-faced side of the thermal transfer sheet 201 by a heating means 204 such as a thermal head.
  • the thermal head 204 is controlled with electric signals corresponding to image information.
  • the dye of the thermal transfer sheet is transferred on an image-receiving layer.
  • a thermal transfer sheet used is a sheet which has been coated or printed, as shown in Fig. 3, a start mark 301 and dyes including yellow 302, magenta 303 and cyan 304, and also including a black dye, if necessary.
  • This sheet is superposed on a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet and the yellow, magenta and cyan dyes are successively heated according to the respective color-separated image signals to make an image in which the three colors are superposed.
  • a natural color, photographic image is formed.
  • a known thermal transfer image-receiving sheet used in this type of printing system is one which has an image-receiving layer obtained by coating onto a paper substrate such as high-quality paper a coating of a dispersion of finely powdered silica or calcium carbonate in a binder such as a thermoplastic polyester resin.
  • the image-receiving layer is formed on the substrate, such as wood free paper, whose smoothness is low, it is difficult to obtain a satisfactory printed image.
  • the substrate such as wood free paper
  • missing transfer portions are liable to occur at half-tone to low-tone portions.
  • images such as of symbols, letters and figures are substantially solid and thus the missing transfer portions are not conspicuous, missing transfer portions on photographs or colored solid images will undesirably tend to become marked and produce vital deficiencies. Accordingly, there is a strong demand for eliminating such deficiencies.
  • the method (1) has a problem that the productivity lowers because it comprises the step in which the intermediate layer which has been kept as softened or plastic is brought into close contact with mirror-like finished chromium plated metal drum for heating and drying.
  • the method (2) involves the problem that a soft resin such as MBR, polyurethane, polybutadiene, SBR or the like, which has been formulated so as to improve the adhesiveness, is liable to block when wound up after coating and drying. Additionally, the resin dissolves in an organic solvent of the coating solution forming an image-receiving layer, so that the image-receiving layer cannot be formed uniformly, thus causing a lowering of an optical density of the printed image.
  • a soft resin such as MBR, polyurethane, polybutadiene, SBR or the like
  • An object of the invention is to provide an improved image-receiving sheet with a two-layered intermediate layer for thermal transfer printing which is free from the foregoing problems which are found on the known image-receiving sheet and which enables one to form beautiful printing images of high optical density without involving the known problem relating to a transfer missing portion.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide an improved image-receiving sheet with a two-layered intermediate layer which is capable of forming images of high quality having good gradation and which is free from the known problem relating to a missing transfer portion even upon using as a base sheet various paper sheets made primarily of pulp fibers.
  • the present inventors have made intensive studies in order to achieve the above objects and, as a result, found that when a base sheet is first formed with an intermediate layer made primarily of a resin insoluble in organic solvents and then with an image-receiving layer made chiefly of a resin soluble in organic solvents, the smoothness and the anti-blocking properties are significantly improved. And this results in making printed images beautiful without causing any missing transfer portion and making the printed images to have an excellent optical density.
  • the present invention has been accomplished based on the above findings.
  • the present invention contemplates to provide an image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer printing which is characterized by comprising a substrate, an intermediate layer formed on the substrate, and an image-receiving layer formed on the intermediate layer and containing as a primary component a resin soluble in organic solvent, wherein said intermediate layer has a two-layered structure comprising a main constituent layer and a protective layer formed on said main constituent layer, said main constituent layer being comprised of a resin insoluble in organic solvent and said protective layer being comprised of an organic solvent-resistant resin.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic sectional view showing an image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer printing according to the invention.
  • 101 denotes a substrate
  • 102 denotes the above-mentioned intermediate layer
  • 103 denotes an image-receiving layer.
  • the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer of the image-receiving sheet according to the present invention contains as its primary component resins which are insoluble in organic solvents.
  • the unsaturated acid monomer (B) includes, for example, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid, dicarboxylic acid anhydrides, dicarboxylic acid monoalkyl esters, and the like.
  • the unsaturated acid monomer is contained in an amount of from 0.5 to 15 wt% of the copolymer latex. If the content is less than 0.5 wt%, the mechanical stability of the copolymer latex lowers, whereas over 15 wt%, the latex tends to undesirably become too viscous.
  • the olefinic monomer (C) other than the aliphatic conjugated diolefinic monomer (A) and the unsaturated acid monomer (B) includes, for example, aromatic vinyl monomers such as styrene, alpha-methylstyrene, dimethylstyrene vinyl toluene and the like, acrylates monomers such as methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, lauryl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl acrylate and the like, methacrylate monomers such as methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate and the like, unsaturated nitrile monomers such as acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile and the like, and acrylamide, N-methylolacrylamide, glycidyl acryl
  • the gel content of the copolymer latex should be controlled in a range of from 85 to 100 wt%.
  • the gel content may be influenced depending upon the monomer composition, the yield of emulsion polymerization, the polymerization temperature and the like, it should be controlled over 85 wt% by controlling an amount of a chain transfer agent such as carbon tetrachloride, dodecyl mercaptan, octyl mercaptan or the like or by appropriately using a crosslinking agent such as methylenebisacrylamide, divinylbenzene, diallyl phthalate or the like.
  • a chain transfer agent such as carbon tetrachloride, dodecyl mercaptan, octyl mercaptan or the like
  • a crosslinking agent such as methylenebisacrylamide, divinylbenzene, diallyl phthalate or the like.
  • gel content used herein is a value determined according to the following procedure.
  • a latex is allowed to stand on a glass plate at room temperature (in a air-dried condition) over 24 hours, after which it is dried in vacuum for 2 to 3 hours to obtain an about 1 mm thick latex film.
  • About 0.5 g of the thus obtained film is accurately weighed and immersed in 50 ml of toluene at room temperature for 24 hours.
  • the toluene solution is passed through a 200 mesh stainless steel screen to collect an insoluble matter, followed by drying it at 135°C for 3 hours and measuring the weight. Then, the ratio (wt%) to the weight prior to the immersion in the toluene solution is calculated as the gel content.
  • the above specific type of copolymer latex should preferably be contained in the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer in an amount of not less than 60 wt%, more preferably not less than 70 wt%, of the total solid of the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer in order to obtain a desired high optical density for images as printed.
  • the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer may further contain various additives including pigments such as silica, alumina, clay, calcium carbonate and plastic pigments, lubricants, fluorescent dyes, and other adhesives in amounts not impeding the effects of a resin insoluble in organic solvents.
  • pigments such as silica, alumina, clay, calcium carbonate and plastic pigments, lubricants, fluorescent dyes, and other adhesives in amounts not impeding the effects of a resin insoluble in organic solvents.
  • Solvent-resistant organic pigment fine particles include, for example, those of polyolefin resins, phenolic resins, urea resins, melamine resins, allyl resins, epoxy resins, polyimide resins, benzoguanamide resins, and the like.
  • the resins other than the polyolefin resins are all thermosetting resins and thus lower the cushioning properties of the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer. Accordingly, studies have been made on fine particles of various polyolefin resins. As a result, it has been found that certain types of polyolefin resin fine particles can significantly improve the anti-blocking properties and eliminate the known problems relating to occurrence of missing transfer portions but they lower the optical density for images as printed.
  • the fine particles of a certain type of polyolefin resin should preferably have a melting point not lower than 70°C, more preferably not lower than 100°C, and a heat absorption, accompanied by softening and phase transfer at the time of heating, of not larger than 50 cal/g. If the melting point is lower than 70°C, the fine particles melt during drying a coating for the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer, so that they bond together by fusion or impregnate into a substrate. Thus, the resultant main constituent layer of the intermediate layer lowers in smoothness. When the heat absorption exceeds 50 cal/g, heat from a thermal head is consumed in the form of latent heat, leading to a lowering of the transfer density.
  • the fine particles of the polyolefin resins includes those of polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutene-1, polyisobutene, polypentene-1, polyhexene-1, poly-3-methylbutene-1, poly-methylpentene-1, poly-5-methylhexene-1, and copolymers of these olefins.
  • fine particles of the above polyolefin resin having defined ranges of a melting point and a heat absorption are used with an organic solvent-insoluble resin in the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer.
  • polyethylene, polypropylene and copolymers of ethylene and propylene are used as the polyolefin resin in the form of fine particles.
  • the melting point used herein means a temperature at which an endothermic peak appears when measured by differential thermal analysis.
  • the heat absorption accompanied by softening or phase transfer means an absorption of heat in the vicinity of the melting point measured by the differential thermal analysis.
  • the particle size of the fine particles of polyolefin resins is smaller than 0.1 micrometer, satisfactorily high smoothness cannot be obtained. Over 20 micrometers, the smoothness also lowers. In view of this, the particle size is preferably in the range from 0.1 to 20 micrometers.
  • Desired effects are obtained when the fine particles are contained in an amount of not less than 10 wt%, preferably from 60 to 90 wt%, as the total solid content in the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer.
  • the above content is less than 10 wt%, satisfactory effects of reducing the blocking tendency and improving the smoothness cannot be expected.
  • the strength of the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer lowers, with a fear that the layer may separate from the substrate during printing or a coating for the image-receiving layer may impregnate in the intermediate layer or the substrate when coated, disenabling a satisfactory image-receiving layer to be formed.
  • binder for the fine particfles of polyolefin resins such a specific type of copolymer latex as set forth before can be used with very good results.
  • resins ordinarily used as a binder or adhesive e.g. SBR, polyurethane, polybutadiene, MBR, vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers, may be used as they are.
  • the present inventors have intensively made further studies on the organic solvent-resistant resins. As a result, it has been found that when hollow particles are contained in the resin, the heat-insulating properties of the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer can be remarkably improved together with an attendant remarkable improvement in the optical density for images as printed.
  • the hollow particles useful for this purpose are, for example, those described below.
  • thermoplastic materials such as vinylidene chloride-acrylonitrile copolymers
  • a volatile expanding agent such as propane, n-butane, iso-butane or the like
  • Matsumoto Microsphere F-30 produced by Matsumoto Yushi-Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
  • Expancel 551, 642 produced by KemaNobel Company
  • Hard resins such as acryl-styrene copolymers are used as a shell in which water is contained and is flown away upon drying to form hollow polymer particles.
  • Ropaque OP-84J acrylstyrene copolymer
  • Rohm & Haas Japan Kabushiki Kaisha commercially available product: Ropaque OP-84J (acrylstyrene copolymer), produced by Rohm & Haas Japan Kabushiki Kaisha.
  • the above hollow particles have generally a size of from 0.1 to 200 micrometers. Preferably, those hollow particles having a size of from 0.1 to 20 micrometers are used.
  • the size is less than 0.1 micrometer, satisfactory heat-insulating effects cannot be expected. Over 20 micrometers, the smoothness of the image-receiving layer lowers. In this connection, however, the hollow particles obtained by thermal expansion of thermally expandable plastic materials have the cushioninig action and are flexible, so that they are usable when the size is not larger than 100 micrometers.
  • the above-mentioned hollow particles are all soluble in organic solvents such as methyl ethyl ketone and should be used after dispersion in an organic solvent-resistant resin used as an binder.
  • the hollow particles are favorably used in an amount of not less than 50 wt% of the total solids in the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer.
  • the intermediate layer of the image-receiving sheet according to the present invention has a two-layered structure comprising the main constituent layer and the protective layer.
  • the protective layer is disposed on the main constituent layer comprised of the hollow particles.
  • the protective layer serves not only to smooth the surface of the main constituent layer comprised of the hollow particles but also to provide the resulting image-receiving sheet with a desirable flexibility.
  • the protective layer is formed of an organic solvent-resistant resin.
  • the organic solvent-resistant resin by which the protective layer is constituted are copolymer latices having specific monomer composition and gel content.
  • resins having good film-forming properties and capable of inhibiting organic solvents from infiltrating may be used including, for example, hydrophilic polymers such as polyvinyl alcohol, casein, starch and the like, acrylic esters, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, carboxyl group-containing polyethylene, and the like.
  • the copolymer latices and the hydrophilic polymers including polyvinyl alcohol, casein, starch and the like are preferred because of good synergistic effects with the hollow particles contained in the main constituent layer.
  • the thickness of the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer is generally in the range of from 10 to 50 micrometers, preferably from 15 to 30 micrometers.
  • dry coating of the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer is in the range of from 1 to 10 g/m2, and preferably, from 2 to 6 g/m2.
  • the thickness is in the range of from 5 to 50 micrometers, preferably from 10 to 30 micrometers.
  • the main constituent layer of the intermediate layer may further comprise microcapsules which contain a core substance having the plasticizing action on an image-receiving layer made primarily of a resin soluble in organic solvent, e.g. esters such as phosphoric esters, (tere)phthalic esters, adipic esters and the like, polyesters in the form of oligomers of dibasic acids and glycols or glycerine, epoxy fatty acid esters, and the like.
  • the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet obtained in this case is improved in the receptivity of sublimable dyes without involving any missing transfer portion and has a high optical density for images as printed.
  • the wall of the capsule used above should permit thermal transmission of the core substance through the capsule wall when heated at the time of printing.
  • the capsule wall is desired to be made of polyurethane or polyurea.
  • the substrate 101 there may be used, for example, a synthetic paper, a wood free paper, a No.1 grade coated paper, a coated paper, a cast coated paper, polymer films, and composite sheets of these papers and films.
  • the smoothness of paper sheet is measured by means of a measuring instrument such as a specular reflection smoothness tester, a Bekk smoothness tester, a Parker Print Surf or the like.
  • a measuring instrument such as a specular reflection smoothness tester, a Bekk smoothness tester, a Parker Print Surf or the like.
  • the measurement with an air leakage-type Bekk smoothness tester or Parker Print-Surf is greatly influenced by air permeability of the substrate sheet. It has been found difficult to establish a correct interrelation between a measurement and an actual smoothness for various substrate sheets whose properties greatly differ from one another.
  • the smoothness of a paper substrate sheet used in the practice of the present invention should be determined using a specular reflection smoothness tester.
  • a paper substrate sheet having not less than 6%, preferably not less than 7%, when measured at a pressure of 20 kg/cm2 (a greater value leading to a better smoothness) is used, an intermediate layer having desired characteristics can be very efficiently formed.
  • the paper-base substrates are not critical with respect to the type provided that the above requirements for the surface are satisfied.
  • Examples of the paper-base substrate includes gloss, dull and mat-type coated papers such as No.1 grade coated papers, coated papers, lightweight coated papers, finely coated papers, cast coated papers and the like, and non-coated papers such as wood free papers, medium papers, super calendered papers and the like.
  • the image-receiving layer of the image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer printing according to the invention is formed primarily of resins soluble in organic solvents.
  • the organic solvent-soluble resins are those below mentioned.
  • polyester resins and vinylchloride-(meth)acrylic ester copolymers are preferred because of their good transferability in dye stuffs and of their light fastness of transferred dye stuffs.
  • additives may be added to the image-receiving layer, if necessary.
  • additives include mineral pigments such as, for example, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, aluminium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, finely powdered silica and the like and organic white pigments such as plastic pigments in order to improve whiteness and thermal fusion properties, modified silicon resins, solid waxes, polyethylene waxes, amide waxes, calcium silicate, and the like.
  • UV absorbers and light stabilizers may be added in amounts not impeding the effects of the invention.
  • the image-receiving layer may be formed by applying a coating composition for the image-receiving layer onto the surface of the protective layer of the intermediate layer, which has been previously formed on a substrate, in a dry thickness of from 1 to 15 micrometers, preferably from 2 to 10 micrometers by any known coating apparatus such as, for example, a bar coater, a gravure coater or the like, and drying the coating composition applied.
  • a coating composition for the image-receiving layer onto the surface of the protective layer of the intermediate layer, which has been previously formed on a substrate, in a dry thickness of from 1 to 15 micrometers, preferably from 2 to 10 micrometers by any known coating apparatus such as, for example, a bar coater, a gravure coater or the like, and drying the coating composition applied.
  • An image-receiving sheet with a two-layered intermediate layer for thermal transfer printing was prepared in the following manner.
  • Preparation of base paper sheet A paper stock comprised of 30 parts of bleached NKP and 70 parts of bleached LKP to which 0.4 parts of a rosin size, 10 parts of talc and 2.3 parts of aluminium sulfate were added was prepared and subjected to paper making by means of a Fourdrinier paper machine at a rate of 600 m/minute in such a way that a dry weight was 101 g/m2, followed by coating a oxidized starch solution having a concentration of 6% by the use of a size press in an amount of 50 ml/m2, drying and winding-up.
  • the resultant base paper sheet was subjected to supercalendering under the following conditions.
  • Supercalendering conditions linear pressure 200 kg/cm surface temperature of chrominum-plated metal roll 25°C running speed of paper 250 m/minute number of nips for running paper 4
  • the base paper sheet was found to have a Cobb water absorption (5 second value) of 10.4 g/m2 and a smoothness of 13% as determined by the specular reflection smoothness tester at a pressure of 20 kg/cm2.
  • Preparation of coated paper sheet (a) Preparation of a coating composition: 60 parts of ground calcium carbonate (trademark name: Sofuton 1800, produced by Bihoku Funka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha), precipitated calcium carbonate (trademark name: Brilliant S-15, produced by Shiraishi Calcium Kaisha, Ltd.), and 0.2 parts of sodium polyacrylate were dispersed in water by means of Coweles Dissolver (produced by Morehouse Industries, Inc.) to obtain a pigment slurry having a solid content of 55%.
  • ground calcium carbonate trademark name: Sofuton 1800, produced by Bihoku Funka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
  • precipitated calcium carbonate (trademark name: Brilliant S-15, produced by Shiraishi Calcium Kaisha, Ltd.)
  • sodium polyacrylate (a)
  • An image-receiving sheet with a two-layered intermediate layer for thermal transfer printing was prepared in the following manner.
  • Preparation of base paper sheet A paper stock comprised of 30 parts of bleached NKP and 70 parts of bleached LKP to which 0.4 parts of a rosin size, 10 parts of talc and 2.3 parts of aluminium sulfate were added was prepared and subjected to paper making by means of a Fourdrinier paper machine at a rate of 600 m/minute in such a way that a dry weight was 101 g/m2, followed by coating a oxidized starch solution having a concentration of 6% by the use of a size press in an amount of 50 ml/m2, drying and winding-up.
  • the resultant base paper sheet was subjected to supercalendering under the following conditions.
  • Supercalendering conditions linear pressure 200 kg/cm surface temperature of chrominum-plated metal roll 25°C running speed of paper 250 m/minute number of nips for running paper 4
  • the base paper sheet was found to have a Cobb water absorption (5 second value) of 10.4 g/m2 and a smoothness of 13% as determined by the specular reflection smoothness tester at a pressure of 20 kg/cm2.
  • Formation of two-layered intermediate layer A two-layered intermediate layer was formed in the following manner on the surface of the base paper sheet obtained in the above.
  • Example 1 The procedures of Example 1 were repeated, except that the upper layer of the intermediate layer was not formed and after the formation of the lower layer, an image-receiving layer was formed directly on the lower layer, to thereby obtain an image-receiving sheet with a single-layered intermediate layer for thermal transfer printing.
  • Example 2 The procedures of Example 2 were repeated, except that the upper layer of the intermediate layer was not formed and after the formation of the lower layer, an image-receiving layer was formed directly on the lower layer, to thereby obtain an image-receiving sheet with a single-layered intermediate layer for thermal transfer printing.
  • the image-receiving sheet was evaluated in the same manner as in Example 1. The evaluated results are shown in Table 1.
  • the resistance was evaluated by visual observation and measurement of a sheet thickness.
  • the intermediate layer and a black drawing paper were superposed and passed twice through a supercalender at a linear pressure of 50 kg/cm, after which the layer and the paper were separated from each other to observe the respective surfaces.
  • the optical density of cyan color transferred onto the image-receiving layer was evaluated by the use of a reflection densitometer (Macbeth RD914).

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