Patent ID: 6534236
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: B41M,G03F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for forming an image, the method comprising the steps of:charging, by corona discharge, a coloring material layer surface of a transfer material, which has at least a light-transmissive support, a light-transmissive electroconductive layer, a light-heat exchange layer and a coloring material layer; thereafter superposing an image-receiving layer surface of an image-receiving material, which has at least a support and an image-receiving layer, with the coloring material layers surface; and irradiating laser light imagewisely onto the transfer material, thereby transferring an irradiated portion of the coloring material layer of the transfer material to the image-receiving layer surface, for forming the image on the image-receiving layer surface of the image-receiving material.