Image receiving sheet for sublimation transfer

U.S. Patent Number: 5726121

Abstract: An image receiving sheet for sublimation transfer has a dye receiving layer formed on a substrate directly or through an intermediate layer. This dye receiving layer is mainly constructed by hardened resin. Further, a gel fraction of the dye receiving layer is equal to or greater than 70% by weight. In accordance with this construction, it is possible to improve a surface release property of the image receiving sheet used in combination with a thermally sublimating transfer recording medium. Further, when this image receiving sheet is applied to n-fold mode recording process, no image receiving sheet is stuck to a dye layer of recording medium.

Inventors: Uemura; Hiroyuki (Mishima, JP), Nogawa; Chiharu (Shizuoka-ken, JP)

Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP)

Application Number: 08/714,816

Issued: 1998-03-10

Expired: 2006-03-10

Classes: 503/227 ; 428/195.1; 428/447; 428/913; 428/914

Field of search: 8/471 428/195,447,913,914 503/227

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