EP0475633A2 - Matériau récepteur d'image pour le transfert thermique - Google Patents
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- EP0475633A2 EP0475633A2 EP91307857A EP91307857A EP0475633A2 EP 0475633 A2 EP0475633 A2 EP 0475633A2 EP 91307857 A EP91307857 A EP 91307857A EP 91307857 A EP91307857 A EP 91307857A EP 0475633 A2 EP0475633 A2 EP 0475633A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
- B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
- B41M5/26—Thermography ; Marking by high energetic means, e.g. laser otherwise than by burning, and characterised by the material used
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
- B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
- B41M5/50—Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity, e.g. for ink-jet or thermal dye transfer recording
- B41M5/52—Macromolecular coatings
- B41M5/5263—Macromolecular coatings characterised by the use of polymers obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
- B41M5/5272—Polyesters; Polycarbonates
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- This invention relates to thermal transfer receiver sheets which are used in combination with a thermal transfer dyesheet containing thermal transfer dyes and employing heating means (such as thermal heads) to transfer dye from the dyesheet to a dye-receiving layer on the receiver sheet, according to image signals applied to the heating means.
- the invention relates especially to an improved dye-receiving composition.
- Thermal transfer printing systems have been developed in recent years for producing images by causing thermal transfer dyes to transfer to a receiver sheet in response to thermal stimuli.
- a dyesheet comprising a thin substrate supporting a dyecoat containing one or more such dyes uniformly spread over an entire printing area of the dyesheet
- printing is effected by heating selected discrete areas of the dyesheet while the dyecoat is pressed against a dye-receptive surface of a receiver sheet, thereby causing dye to transfer to corresponding areas of the receiver.
- the shape of the image thus formed on the receiver is determined by the number and location of the discrete areas which are subjected to heating.
- High resolution photograph-like prints can be produced by thermal transfer printing using appropriate printing equipment, such as programmable thermal heads or laser printer, controlled by electronic image signals derived from a video, computer, electronic still camera, or similar signal generating apparatus.
- a thermal print head has a row of individually operable tiny heaters spaced to print typically six or more pixels per millimetre. Selection and operation of these heaters is effected according to the electronic image signals fed to the printer.
- Full colour prints can be produced by printing with different coloured dyecoats sequentially in like manner, and the different coloured dyecoats are usually provided as discrete uniform print-size areas in a repeated sequence along the same dyesheet.
- Receiver sheets comprise a substrate sheet supporting a dye-receiving layer containing a material having an affinity for the thermal transfer dye molecules, and into which they can readily diffuse when an adjacent area of dyesheet is heated during printing.
- a material having an affinity for the thermal transfer dye molecules are mainly constituted by various aromatic or aliphatic polyesters, as described for example in JA-A-57-107,885, JA-A-61-258,790, JA-A-1-269,589 and US 4,474,859.
- a thermal transfer printing receiver sheet comprises a substrate supporting a dye-receiving layer on its surface, characterised in that the main constituent of the dye-receiving layer is a copolyester in which the acid component comprises at least one alicyclic dicarboxylic acid, and the alcohol component comprises at least one alicyclic diol.
- Materials suitable for use as the substrate of the receiver sheet may variously include for example, thermoplastic films, synthetic papers and cellulose fibre papers.
- examples include films or sheets of polyester, polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene, polyethylene. polycarbonate, polyimide, polyamide, polyamideimide, especially biaxially orientated polyethyleneterephthalate film.
- Examples of synthetic papers include those of fabricated and moulded polyolefines, polystyrene, and polyesters etc. as the polymer component.
- Cellulose fibre papers, woodfree paper, coated paper, art paper, synthetic rubber latex impregnated paper, cast-coated paper, etc, can also be used. The above may be used on their own, although a laminated substrate using a combination of two or more of the above, may be preferred for some applications.
- the substrate supports the dye-receiving layer, which is provided as a coating on its surface for the purpose of receiving the dyes transferred from selected areas of the dyesheet, thereby to form an image.
- the main constituent of the dye-receiving layer of the present invention is a copolyester formed by using an acid component comprising at least one alicyclic dicarboxylic acid.
- alicyclic dicarboxylic acids which can be used for this purpose, include cyclopropane dicarboxylic acid, cyclobutane dicarboxylic acid, cyclohexane-1,2-dicarboxylic acid, cyclohexane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid, cyclohexane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid, methylhexahydrophthalic acid, and norbornene dicarboxylic acid.
- the alicyclic acid components of the copolyester can be introduced as the acid or as the corresponding anhydride, as appropriate. Examples of such anhydrides, for example, include hexahydrophthalic acid anhydride, and methyl-hexahydrophthalic acid anhydride.
- the acid component of the copolyester may also include other polybasic carboxylic acids, such as those previously used on their own without the present alicyclic acids.
- Such other dicarboxylic acids may include, for example, aromatic dicarboxylic acids such as terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, orthophthalic acid, 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid, etc, aliphatic dicarboxylic acids, such as succinic acid, adipic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, dodecane dicarboxylic acid, etc.
- Tri- and tetra-carboxylic acids such as trimellitic acid, trimesic acid, pyromellitic acid, etc, may also be added to the alicyclic dicarboxylic acid.
- the acid component of the copolyester comprises a mixture of alicyclic dicarboxylic acids and other polybasic carboxylic acids
- the alcohol component of the copolyester of the present invention comprises at least one alicyclic diol.
- diols that can be used for this purpose include 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, cyclohexane-1,2-diol, cyclohexane-1,3-diol, cyclohexane-1,4-diol, cyclopentane-1,2-diol, cyclopentane-1,3-diol, tricyclodecanedimethylol, and ethylene oxide adduct of hydrogenated Bisphenol A.
- the alcohol component of the copolyester may also include other polyols, such as those previously used on their own in the absence of the present alicyclic diols, for example.
- additional other polyols may include ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, butanediol, neopentyl glycol, diethylene glycol, 1,6-hexanediol, 2,2-diethyl-1,3-propanediol, 2-n-butyl-2-ethyl-1,3-propanediol, and ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide adduct of Bisphenol A, and polyols such as trimethylol propane, glycerin, pentaerithritol, polyglycerin, etc.
- the alcohol component of the copolyester comprises a mixture of alicyclic diols and other polyhydric alcohols
- Dye-receiving layers of the present invention can be made by coating a substrate with a composition containing the copolyester, using any of the normal coating techniques, such as roll coating or gravure printing, for example.
- the viscosity of the coating composition can be adjusted by altering the amount of solvents present, and these are subsequently removed from the applied layer by drying.
- Receivers made according to the invention can show properties superior to those obtained with previously known polyesters, but such improvements are only shown when both alicyclic dicarboxylic acid and alicyclic diol moieties are present; ie not when only one or the other is present.
- the thermal printing receiver may be provided with a release agent in the dye-receiving layer or on its surface.
- release agents include solid waxes such as polyethylene wax, amide wax, polytetrafluoroethylene powder, fluorine- or phosphate-type surfactants, and especially silicone oils.
- both oil type and solid type silicone oils can be used, but curable silicone materials are preferred.
- the uncured silicone materials are first applied as an uncured coating composition on the dye-receiving layer, dried as appropriate, and thereafter cured in situ.
- the curable materials are mixed with the copolyester in a coating composition, which is then applied to the substrate and dried, curing of the release system then being effected in situ.
- Such cross-linked matrices these produce within the dye-receiving layer help to stabilise it. They can be reaction curing types, photocuring type or catalytic curing type, for example, but the reaction curing type is preferred.
- reaction curing release systems include the reaction products of amino-modified silicone oils, such as KF-393, KF-857, KF-858, X-22-3680, X-22-3810 (these being products of Shin-Etsu Chemical), and M468 (ICI), reacted with an epoxy-modified silicone such as KF-100T, KF-101, KF-103 (these also being products of Shin-Etsu Chemical), or with an organic oligoepoxide free from silicone, such as Diepoxide 126, Diepoxide 183 (both being products of Degussa), and Araldite GY 1558 GB (Ciba Geigy). Preferred quantities of such release systems in the dye-receiving layer are 0.05-20% of the copolyester.
- the cross-linking of the copolyester can also be enhanced, by including an effective amount of a cross-linking agent in the coating composition, applying this as a layer to the substrate, and carrying out the cross-linking reaction in situ, ie in essentially the same manner as that described above for the release system.
- a cross-linking agent examples include compounds having isocyanate groups, compounds having active methylol or alkoxy methyl groups, acid anhydride, carboxy groups, or epoxy groups. It is generally preferred to limit the crosslinking agent to 0.5-20 wt % of the copolyester.
- the dye-receiving layer may also contain a minor amount of other polymeric materials intimately mixed with the copolyester.
- other polymeric materials include polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate coplymer, polystyrene, polycarbonate, acrylic and methacrylic polymers, cellulosic polymers, polyacetal, polyethylene, and polypropylene; and even thermosetting resins such as epoxy, melamine, urethane and urea type resins can be present in small quantities.
- any polymeric material in the dye-receiving layer being limited to the copolyester and any polymeric release agent.
- the dye-receiving layer may also contain stabilisers for combating fading and/or a UV absorber. Suitable quantities are 0.5-20 wt % of the copolyester.
- Such layers may be in the form of a compliant cushion or a porous layer, and these may be formed from polyurethane, polyester, polyamide, acrylic or methacrylic polymers, or synthetic rubber.
- the thickness of such layers may suitably be in the range 1-50 ⁇ m.
- an antistatic agent can be coated onto or incorporated with one or more coating of the receiver. We prefer that antistatic treatments be applied to both sides of the substrate.
- thermal printing receiver sheets according to the invention was made by transferring images onto the dye-receiving layer using a thermal head.
- the receiver sheet was placed against a dyesheet with its dye-receiving layer in contact with the dyecoat of the dyesheet (details of the latter being specified in the example below).
- Heat was applied to the back of the dyesheet by a thermal head having an output energy of 0.32 W/dot, a head heating time of 6 ms and a dot density of 6 dots/mm.
- the printed sheets thus formed were evaluated in respect of their optical density, light fastness, storage stability, and finger print resistance, in the following manner.
- the image density was measured on a SAKURA optical density meter PDA 85.
- the hue of the image was measured before and after accelerated aging of the print by ATRAS HPUV, to determine the change in hue which occurred during the aging cycle.
- the printed receiver sheet was stored in an atmosphere of 45°C and 85% relative humidity, for 2 weeks.
- the hue was again measured before and after treatment, to determine the change of hue occurring under those conditions.
- the optical density of the printed image was determined. A finger print was then made on the image surface, and the print left in an atmosphere of 45°C and 85% relative humidity for 2 weeks. After that time the optical density was again measured of the part of the print on which the finger print had been made. The change in optical density was recorded as a percentage of the initial measurement.
- the reactants used for the production of the copolyester (A) are summarised below.
- Receiver sheet (a′) was prepared by wire bar coating one surface of a polyester film with an ink composition (a), and drying this to produce a dye-receiving layer of approximately 5 ⁇ m thickness.
- the polyester film was Melinex 990 (Melinex is a trade mark of Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, hereinafter referred to as ICI).
- Ink composition (a) contained copolyester (A) as the main constituent of the dye-receiving layer, a release system also being present as a minor constituent.
- the full composition of ink composition (a) is set out below.
- a slipping layer of silicone oil was formed on one side of a 6 ⁇ m polyester substrate film (Lumilar Toray product). Then an ink composition (I) for the thermal transfer printing was prepared as described below, and was coated onto the other surface of the substrate from that coated with the slipping layer. The ink composition (I) was then dried to form a 1.0 ⁇ m thick dyecoat, to complete the thermal transfer dye sheet (I′). Details of the ink composition were as follows:
- thermal transfer dye sheet (I′) and the thermal transfer printing receiver sheet (a′) were held together, and an image was formed in the dye-receiving layer by heating with a thermal head.
- the optical density, light fastness, storage stability and finger print resistance of the printed sheet thus produced, were evaluated. The results are shown in Table I.
- An ink composition (b) for forming a dye receiving layer was prepared in the similar manner to that in Example 1, but using copolyester (B) as the main constituent.
- a thermal transfer printing receiver sheet (b′) was prepared by coating this ink onto Melinex 990 and drying, as described above.
- Using the thermal transfer dyesheet (I′) to provide the transfer dyes a printed sheet was obtained by forming an image in the dye-receiving layer of receiver sheet (b′), by heating with a thermal head. The optical density, light fastness, storage stability and finger print resistance were then evaluated. The results are shown in Table I.
- Copolyester resins (D) and (E) were prepared from the compositions shown below, in similar manner to those of Examples 1 to 3 above.
- An ink composition (d) for forming the dye-receiving layer was prepared in a similar manner to that of Example I but using copolyester (D) as the main constituent, and a corresponding thermal transfer printing receiver sheet (d′) was prepared, again using Melinex 990 as substrate.
- Thermal transfer dyesheet (I′) and thermal transfer printing receiver sheet (d′) were passed together through a thermal printer, and a printed sheet was obtained by forming an image in the receiver layer by heating with the thermal head. Optical density, light fastness, storage stability and finger print resistance of the printed sheet, were evaluated. The results are shown in Table 1.
- An ink composition (e) for forming the dye receiving layer was prepared in similar manner to those of the preceding Examples, but using copolyester (E) as the main constituent.
- Receiver sheet (e′) was prepared by coating Melinex 990 with a layer of e. This was printed as before using thermal transfer dyesheet (I′) and the optical density, the light fastness, the storage stability and the finger printing resistance were evaluated. The results are shown in Table I.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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JP245382/90 | 1990-09-14 | ||
JP24538290 | 1990-09-14 |
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EP0475633A2 true EP0475633A2 (fr) | 1992-03-18 |
EP0475633A3 EP0475633A3 (en) | 1993-02-03 |
EP0475633B1 EP0475633B1 (fr) | 1995-02-15 |
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EP91307857A Expired - Lifetime EP0475633B1 (fr) | 1990-09-14 | 1991-08-28 | Matériau récepteur d'image pour le transfert thermique |
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EP (1) | EP0475633B1 (fr) |
KR (1) | KR920006142A (fr) |
AT (1) | ATE118405T1 (fr) |
DE (1) | DE69107380T2 (fr) |
GB (1) | GB9118390D0 (fr) |
TW (1) | TW211543B (fr) |
Cited By (8)
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EP0545407A1 (fr) * | 1991-12-03 | 1993-06-09 | Eastman Kodak Company | Elément récepteur pour le transfert thermique de colorant, la couche réceptrice étant à base de polyester |
EP0562578A1 (fr) * | 1992-03-24 | 1993-09-29 | Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd | Résine polyester pour une couche réceptrice de colorant utilisée dans l'enregistrement par transfert thermique |
US5302574A (en) * | 1992-12-23 | 1994-04-12 | Eastman Kodak Company | Thermal dye transfer receiving element with polyester/polycarbonate blended dye image-receiving layer |
US5317001A (en) * | 1992-12-23 | 1994-05-31 | Eastman Kodak Company | Thermal dye transfer receiving element with aqueous dispersible polyester dye image-receiving layer |
US5342819A (en) * | 1991-11-12 | 1994-08-30 | Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. | Thermal transfer image-receiving sheet |
US5376500A (en) * | 1992-03-24 | 1994-12-27 | Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. | Polyester resin for a dye receptive layer of a recording medium for sublimation type heat-sensitive transfer recording process, and a recording medium using the polyester resin |
EP0835752A2 (fr) * | 1996-10-08 | 1998-04-15 | Mitsubishi Polyester Film Corporation | Feuille en polyester stratifié et feuille pour impression par jet d'encre |
EP1452329A1 (fr) * | 2003-02-26 | 2004-09-01 | Eastman Kodak Company | Nouvelles compositions de polyesters pour matériau en film |
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US7005406B2 (en) | 2003-02-26 | 2006-02-28 | Eastman Kodak Company | Image-recording element comprising polyester-containing image-receiving layer |
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EP0464921A1 (fr) * | 1990-07-06 | 1992-01-08 | Avery Dennison Corporation | Film multicouche imprimable |
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- 1991-09-26 TW TW080107602A patent/TW211543B/zh active
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EP0464921A1 (fr) * | 1990-07-06 | 1992-01-08 | Avery Dennison Corporation | Film multicouche imprimable |
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US5342819A (en) * | 1991-11-12 | 1994-08-30 | Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. | Thermal transfer image-receiving sheet |
US5387571A (en) * | 1991-12-03 | 1995-02-07 | Eastman Kodak Company | Thermal dye transfer receiving element with polyester dye image-receiving |
EP0545407A1 (fr) * | 1991-12-03 | 1993-06-09 | Eastman Kodak Company | Elément récepteur pour le transfert thermique de colorant, la couche réceptrice étant à base de polyester |
EP0562578A1 (fr) * | 1992-03-24 | 1993-09-29 | Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd | Résine polyester pour une couche réceptrice de colorant utilisée dans l'enregistrement par transfert thermique |
US5376500A (en) * | 1992-03-24 | 1994-12-27 | Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. | Polyester resin for a dye receptive layer of a recording medium for sublimation type heat-sensitive transfer recording process, and a recording medium using the polyester resin |
US5317001A (en) * | 1992-12-23 | 1994-05-31 | Eastman Kodak Company | Thermal dye transfer receiving element with aqueous dispersible polyester dye image-receiving layer |
EP0604858A2 (fr) * | 1992-12-23 | 1994-07-06 | Eastman Kodak Company | Elément récepteur pour le transfer thermique de colorant avec couche réceptrice contenant un polyester dispersable à l'eau |
EP0604858A3 (fr) * | 1992-12-23 | 1995-01-04 | Eastman Kodak Co | Elément récepteur pour le transfer thermique de colorant avec couche réceptrice contenant un polyester dispersable à l'eau. |
US5302574A (en) * | 1992-12-23 | 1994-04-12 | Eastman Kodak Company | Thermal dye transfer receiving element with polyester/polycarbonate blended dye image-receiving layer |
EP0835752A2 (fr) * | 1996-10-08 | 1998-04-15 | Mitsubishi Polyester Film Corporation | Feuille en polyester stratifié et feuille pour impression par jet d'encre |
EP0835752A3 (fr) * | 1996-10-08 | 1999-04-14 | Mitsubishi Polyester Film Corporation | Feuille en polyester stratifié et feuille pour impression par jet d'encre |
EP1452329A1 (fr) * | 2003-02-26 | 2004-09-01 | Eastman Kodak Company | Nouvelles compositions de polyesters pour matériau en film |
US7125611B2 (en) | 2003-02-26 | 2006-10-24 | Eastman Kodak Company | Polyester compositions useful for image-receiving layers |
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ATE118405T1 (de) | 1995-03-15 |
GB9118390D0 (en) | 1991-10-16 |
DE69107380T2 (de) | 1995-07-20 |
EP0475633A3 (en) | 1993-02-03 |
TW211543B (fr) | 1993-08-21 |
KR920006142A (ko) | 1992-04-27 |
DE69107380D1 (de) | 1995-03-23 |
EP0475633B1 (fr) | 1995-02-15 |
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