Patent ID: 7071143
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: B41M,G03C

Abstract:
1. A non-photosensitive direct thermographic material comprising a support and on one or both sides thereof, one or more thermally sensitive imaging layers and an outermost non-thermally sensitive protective layer disposed over said one or more thermally sensitive imaging layers, said one or more thermally sensitive layers having in reactive association, a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions and a reducing agent for said reducible silver ions, and said outermost protective layer comprising: (a) a solid polymer derived from one or more olefins and from one or more ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable carboxylic acids or esters or anhydrides thereof, and (b) a branched α-olefin polymer, and (c) optionally, an additional wax, wherein the total amount of component (a), component (b), and optionally component (c) is from about 0.1 to about 2.5 g/m