Process for forming an image
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasao Kitajima, Hiromichi Tachikawa, Fumiaki Shinozaki, Tomoaki Ikeda
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Abstract
A process for forming an image is disclosed wherein a photo-sensitive image-forming material composed of a support and a layer of a thermoplastic photo-sensitive composition which is not adhesive at ordinary temperatures, is exposed and developed by heating in intimate contact with a peeling development carrier sheet at least one surface of which is composed of a thermoplastic material not adhesive at ordinary temperatures, and, subsequently, peeling the development carrier sheet from the photo-sensitive image-forming material.
Claims18
A process for forming an image, which comprises imagewise exposing a photo-sensitive image-forming material composed of a support and a layer of a thermoplastic photo-sensitive composition which is not adhesive at ordinary temperatures, heating the exposed photo-sensitive material in intimate contact with a peeling development carrier sheet at least one surface of which is composed of a thermoplastic material not adhesive at ordinary temperature to a temperature above the softening temperature of at least one of the photo-sensitive composition layer and the peeling development carrier sheet, and then peeling development carrier sheet from the photo-sensitive image-forming material at about or below said heating temperature thereby to form the exposed or unexposed area of the photo-sensitive composition layer on the peeling development carrier sheet, and the corresponding unexposed or exposed area on the support, respectively as a separate image wherein said photo-sensitive composition contains a photo-sensitive polyhalogen compound, a photo-sensitive quinone, a photo-sensitive polymer, a silver halide or an organic silver salt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.