Patent ID: 6235445
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: B41M,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An image forming method comprising the steps of:a step for preparing a thermal transfer sheet comprising a substrate and a light-to-heat conversion layer containing a substance capable of converting light to heat and a binder, the binder being a polyimide resin and soluble in an organic solvent, and an image forming layer, which are disposed on the substrate;preparing an image receiving sheet comprising a substrate and a receptor layer;overlaying the image receiving sheet onto the thermal transfer sheet;irradiating imagewisely the light-to-heat conversion layer with light such that the image forming layer is imagewisely separable from the light-to-heat conversion layer; andtransferring the image forming layer to the image receiving sheet to form an irreversible image thereon.