Patent ID: 8264513
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A method for image processing, comprising: at least any one of image forming step and image erasing step, wherein an image is formed on a thermoreversible recording medium, which comprises at least a resin and an organic low-molecular material, and any one of transparency and color tone is changed reversibly depending on temperatures attained by the medium by heating due to laser beam irradiation to the thermoreversible recording medium in the image forming step, an image formed on the thermoreversible recording medium is erased by heating due to laser beam irradiation to the thermoreversible recording medium in the image erasing step, the thermoreversible recording medium includes a first image forming area and a second image forming area, the image forming step comprises forming an image in the second image forming area which is adjacent to the first image forming area after forming an image in the first image forming area by scanning the laser beam, and the laser beam is irradiated to the second image forming area so as to be overlapped with part of the first image forming area after the organic low-molecular material in the first image forming area is melted prior to crystallization.