Imageable, composite-dry transfer sheet and process of using same

An imageable composite dry-transfer sheet that comprises (a) a cover sheet that is transmissive to activating radiation and has at least one oleophilic surface, (b) a photopolymerizable layer on the oleophilic surface of said cover sheet that comprises a cationically polymerizable organic material, and from about 0.1 to 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said organic material of a cationic photopolymerization initiator, and (c) a base sheet that has an oleophobic surface in contact with said photopolymerizable layer;

• wherein said photopolymerizable layer has a complex shear modulus of, at most, 1.times.10.sup.6 dyne/cm.sup.2 ;
• and
• wherein, after image-wise exposure to activating radiation, the interfacial adhesion of the unexposed areas of said photopolymerizable layer is greater for said cover sheet than for said base sheet;
• the interfacial adhesion of the exposed areas of said photopolymerizable layer is greater for said base sheet than for said cover sheet;
• and
• wherein, after separation of said cover and said base sheets, the unexposed areas of said layer are rendered burnishable by subsequent exposure to activating radiation through said cover sheet.