Patent ID: 7034857
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: G03F

Abstract:
1. An image-recording apparatus comprising: a casing section which encases a light and heat sensitive recording material; an optical recording section, downstream of the casing section, which exposes the light and heat sensitive recording material to visible light, which has been fed from the casing section, for recording a latent image; a thermal developing section, downstream of the optical recording section, which develops the latent image by heating; and an optical fixing section, downstream of the thermal developing section, which irradiates visible light for fixing the developed image wherein the light and heat sensitive recording material is provided with a light and heat sensitive recording layer containing: a color-forming component A encapsulated in heat-responsive microcapsules; and a photo-polymerizable composition outside the heat-responsive microcapsules, the photo-polymerizable composition including at least a substantially colorless compound B, which has in one molecule a polymerizable group and a site capable of reacting with the color-forming component A to form color, and a photo-polymerization initiator.