Image forming method of photothermographic material
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorKazuhiko Hirabayashi
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Abstract
An image forming method is disclosed, comprising the steps of processing image data or setting an exposure condition so that an image size is enlarged or reduced, imagewise exposing a photothermographic material to laser to form an image enlarged or reduced based on the processed image data or the set exposure condition, and subjecting the exposed photothermographic material to thermal development, in which the photothermographic material comprises an organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, and a contrast increasing agent or a quaternary onium salt.
Claims6
An image forming method of a photothermographic material by an image forming apparatus comprising:
- inputting an image data to the image forming apparatus;
- processing the inputted image data or setting an exposure condition so that,
- if the photothermographic material elongates by thermal development in a thermal developing section of the image forming apparatus, an exposed image size is allowed to be reduced according to the elongation of the photothermographic material;
- or
- if the photothermographic material shrinks by thermal development in the thermal developing section of the image forming apparatus, an exposed image size is allowed to be enlarged according to the shrinkage of the photothermographic material;
- imagewise exposing the photothermographic material to a laser to form an image based on the processed image data or the set exposure condition;
- and subjecting the exposed photothermographic material to thermal development;
- wherein, the photothermographic material comprises an organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, and a contrast increasing agent or a quaternary onium salt.
An image forming method of a photothermographic material by an image forming apparatus comprising:
- inputting an image data to the image forming apparatus;
- processing the inputted image data or setting an exposure condition to reduce or enlarge an exposed image size taking into account non-uniformity in temperature inside a thermal developing section of the image forming apparatus so that non-uniformity in thermal development is reduced;
- imagewise exposing the photothermographic material to a laser to form an image based on the processed image data or the set exposure condition;
- and
- subjecting the exposed photothermographic material to thermal development;
- wherein the photothermographic material comprises an organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, and a contrast increasing agent or a quaternary onium salt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.