Patent ID: 6114079
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: G03C

Abstract:
An imaging element comprising:a support having a frontside and a backside;an imaging layer superposed on the frontside of said support;and a print-retaining, electrically-conductive outermost layer superposed on the backside of said support comprising a film-forming binder comprising the latex polymeric addition product of from 20 to 65 mol % of styrene, from 30 to 78 mol % of n-butyl methacrylate, and from 2 to 10 mol % of the sodium salt of 2-sulfoethyl methacrylate and composite electrically conductive particles comprising a layer of electrically conductive metal-containing crystallites overlying a nonconductive substrate particle, said electrically-conductive layer comprising at least about 60 weight percent of said composite electrically conductive particles;wherein the electrically-conductive layer is formed by dispersing the composite electrically-conductive particles using polymeric milling media having a mean particle size less than 350 .mu.m to form a colloidal dispersion, combining the colloidal dispersion with the film forming binder to form a mixture, coating the mixture onto the support and drying the mixture to form the electrically conductive layer.