Image dye combination for laser ablative recording element
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsCharles D. DeBoer, Richard P. Henzel, Stephen M. Neumann, Lee W. Tutt
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Abstract
A laser dye-ablative recording element comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising two or more image dyes dispersed in a polymeric binder, the dye layer having an infrared-absorbing material associated therewith, and wherein the image dyes comprise curcumin yellow dye and a 1,4-diaminoanthraquinone dye.
Claims10
A laser dye-ablative recording element comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising two or more image dyes dispersed in a polymeric binder, said dye layer having an infrared-absorbing material associated therewith, and wherein said image dyes comprise a curcumin yellow dye having the formula:
- ##STR5## and a 1,4-diamino anthraquinone dye.
A process of forming a dye ablation image having an improved Dmin comprising imagewise-heating by means of a laser, a dye-ablative recording element comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising two or more image dyes dispersed in a polymeric binder, said dye layer having an infrared-absorbing material associated therewith, said laser exposure taking place through the dye side of said element, and removing the ablated image dye material to obtain said image in said dye-ablative recording element, wherein said image dyes comprise a curcumin yellow dye having the formula:
- ##STR7## and a 1,4-diaminoanthraquinone dye.
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