Ablation-transfer imaging/recording

A method for transferring a contrasting pattern of intelligence from an ablation-transfer imaging medium to a receptor element in contiguous registration therewith, said ablation-transfer imaging medium comprising a support substrate and a photoradiation-ablative topcoat essentially coextensive therewith, said extensively coextensive topcoat comprising an effective ablative-transfer effecting amount of a non-black body, non-imaging sensitizer that absorbs such imaging radiation at a rate sufficient to effect the imagewise ablation mass transfer of said topcoat, and said photoradiation-ablative topcoat including an imaging amount of a non-black body, non-ablation sensitizing contrast imaging material contained therein, which method comprises imagewise photoirradiating said ablation-transfer imaging medium according to such pattern of intelligence with an intensity sufficient to effect the ablation mass transfer of the volume of the imagewise-exposed area of the radiation-ablative topcoat of said imaging medium securedly onto said receptor element, including mass transfer onto said receptor element of the non-ablation sensitizing contrast imaging material contained therein, and whereby said transferred contrast imaging material delineates said pattern of intelligence thereon.

A method for transferring a contrasting pattern of intelligence from an ablation-transfer imaging medium to a receptor element in contiguous registration therewith, said ablation-transfer imaging medium comprising a support substrate and a laser radiation-ablative topcoat essentially coextensive therewith, said extensively coextensive topcoat comprising an effective ablative-transfer effecting amount of a non-black body, non-imaging sensitizer that absorbs such imaging radiation at a rate sufficient to effect the imagewise ablation mass transfer of said topcoat, and said laser radiation-ablative topcoat including an imaging amount of a non-black body, non-ablation sensitizing contrast imaging material contained therein, which method comprises imagewise photoirradiating said ablation-transfer imaging medium according to such pattern of intelligence with an intensity sufficient to effect the ablation mass transfer of the volume of the imagewise-exposed area of the laser radiation-ablative topcoat of said imaging medium securedly onto said receptor element, including mass transfer onto said receptor element of the non-ablation sensitizing contrast imaging material contained therein, and whereby said transferred contrast imaging material delineates said pattern of intelligence thereon.