Patent ID: 6536963
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: G03D

Abstract:
A method for thermally processing a sheet of a thermographic material (m), comprising the steps of:(a) supplying a sheet of a thermographic material having an imaging element (Ie) to a thermal processor having a processing chamber; (b) heating said processing chamber to a predetermined processing temperature (Tp); (c) transporting said sheet through said processing chamber in a sinuous way by transporting means comprising a first belt and a second belt, wherein during said transporting of said sheet through said processing chamber, said first belt is in contact with a first side of said sheet and said second belt is in contact with a second side of said sheet opposite to said first side; and (d) exporting said sheet out of said thermal processor, wherein during said transporting of said sheet through said processing chamber, said sheet contacts said first belt and said second belt in an alternating way so that at any given time a part of said sheet is at most in contact with only one of said first belt and said second belt.