Patent ID: 6420310
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: B41M,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A thermal transfer image receiving sheet comprising a substrate sheet and a dye receptor layer disposed on at least one surface of said substrate sheet, wherein said dye receptor layer comprises polycarbonate resin of a random copolymer having a main chain which comprises, as essential units, an unit 1 represented by the following formula 1 and an unit 2 represented by the following formula 2, an amount ratio of the unit 1 being not more than 70 mol % based on a total amount of the unit 1 and the unit 2, said polycarbonate resin having a glass transition temperature of not less than 125Â° C. and being dissolvable in a general solvent: said dye receptor layer further comprises at least one additive selected from the group consisting of phthalic acid type plasticizers, phosphoric ester type plasticizers, polycaprolactones and polyester plasticizers.