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US 6,556,230 B2Granted
Heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet and image forming method using the same
AssigneeFujicopian Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakuto Fukui, Zheng Long Cai, Toshiyuki Yamane, Fumiaki Shinozaki
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Abstract
A heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet used in a melting type thermal transfer method, comprising a sheet substrate and a porous ink-receiving layer, comprising a resin formed on at least one side of the sheet substrate, the porous ink-receiving layer having a thickness of 3 to 50 μm and a water vapor permeability (JIS L 1099) of not less than 300 g/(m2·hour) and less than 1,000 g/(m2·hour).
Claims8
A heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet used in an image forming method comprising the steps of:
- bringing a thermal transfer sheet with a heat meltable ink on a substrate into contact with an image-receiving sheet to face the ink side of the thermal transfer sheet, and melting the ink with heat given by a printing head of a thermal transfer printer from the back side of the thermal transfer sheet to transfer the ink onto the image-receiving sheet, thereby forming an image,
- the heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet, comprising a sheet substrate and a porous ink-receiving layer, comprising a resin formed on at least one side of the sheet substrate, the porous ink-receiving layer having a thickness of 3 to 50 μm and a water vapor permeability (JIS L 1099) of not less than 300 g/(m2·hour) and less than 1,000 g/(m2·hour).
A method for forming an image comprising the steps of:
- providing a heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet comprising a sheet substrate and a porous ink-receiving layer comprising a resin formed on at least one side of the sheet substrate, the porous ink-receiving layer having a thickness of 3 to 50 μm and a water vapor permeability (JIS L 1099) of not less than 300 g/(m2·hour) and less than 1,000 g/(m2·hour),
- bringing a thermal transfer sheet with a heat meltable ink on a substrate into contact with the ink-receiving layer of the image-receiving sheet to face the ink side of the thermal transfer sheet, and melting the ink with heat from a printing head of a thermal transfer printer from the back side of the thermal transfer sheet to penetrate the ink into pores of the ink-receiving layer, thereby forming an image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.