Eastman-kodak Company

Derek D Chapman

Steven Evans

Linda A Kaszczuk

Ramanuj Goswami

Csaba A Kovacs

Gary W Byers

Mark A Harris

E-Ming Wu

Michael P Cunningham

Joseph H Ambro

Charles D DeBoer

James Albert Reczek

Huijuan D Chen

Glenn T Pearce

James C Fleming

Ruizheng Wang

Richard C VanHanehem

Charles H Weidner

James K Elwood

Ann L Carroll-Lee

James A Friday

Elizabeth G Burns

Kenneth G Harbison

Edgar E Riecke

Richard C Van Hanehem

Chung Y Chen

Lee William Tutt

Helmut Weber

Margaret Jones Helber

Kevin W Williams

John D Mee

Richard A Landholm

Colin J Gray

Julie P Harmon

Donald W Heseltine

Ronald R Valente

Thomas I Abbott

Michael J McManus

Donald W Kurtz

Disclosed is a dye combination and thermal dye transfer imaging element and imaging method comprising a yellow dye donor containing a combination of two or more yellow dyes, the combination of dyes exhibiting an RMS error of less than 0.015. Such dye combinations provide improved color matching vs. target colors.

Thermal yellow donor and dyes

Disclosed is a dye combination and a thermal dye transfer yellow donor element containing the combination of dyes useful for forming a light stable yellow image comprising a yellow dye having the formula:wherein:

Yellow images with improved light stability and yellow dyes useful therein

Disclosed is a thermal dye transfer imaging donor element and a dye combination comprising a combination of dyes including a magenta dye and a yellow dye exhibiting an RMS error of less than 0.015.

Thermal magenta donor and dyes

An optical recording element having a transparent substrate and on the surface of said substrate, a recording layer, a light reflecting layer is disclosed. The recording layer comprises (i) a metallized azo ether dye having an azo group linking a substituted 3-hydroxypyridine nucleus to a phenyl nucleus wherein the phenyl nucleus has an ether substituent ortho to the azo group and said phenyl nucleus is free of strong electron withdrawing groups and (ii) a cyanine dye. The recording layer also has, when unrecorded a refractive index, at a selected wavelength from 400 to 660 nm, comprising a real part (n) greater than 1.8 and an imaginary part (k) less than 0.2.

Optical recording elements containing mixture of metallized azo ether and cyanine dyes

Metallized azo thioether dyes having an azo group linking a substituted 3-hydroxypyridine nucleus to a phenyl nucleus are disclosed. The phenyl nucleus has an thioether substituent ortho to the azo group but does not have electron withdrawing substituents on the phenyl nucleus. The dyes are useful in optical recording elements.

Metallized azo thioether dyes

The present invention discloses optical recording elements having optical recording layers containing tetra dyes. The dyes have metallized azo dianionic dye with cationic dye counterions. The recording layer has a thickness from 225 to 300 nm.

Thicker optical recording layers comprising a tetra dye having a metallized azo dianionic dye with cationic dye counterions

Metallized azo ether dyes having an azo group linking a substituted 3-hydroxypyridine nucleus to a phenyl nucleus are disclosed. The phenyl nucleus has an ether substituent ortho to the azo group. The phenyl nucleus is free of strong electron withdrawing substituents. The dyes are useful in optical recording elements.

Optical recording elements comprising novel metallized azo ether dyes

A blue dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising a mixture of a cyan dye and a magenta dye dispersed in a polymeric binder, said cyan dye having the formula A:

Blue dye mixture for thermal color proofing

A red dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising a mixture of a magenta dye and two yellow dyes dispersed in a polymeric binder, said magenta dye having the formula A

Red dye mixture for thermal color proofing

A magenta dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising a mixture of magenta dyes and a yellow dye dispersed in a polymeric binder, at least one of the magenta dyes having the formula:

Complexing agent for thermal color proofing

A colorant-donor element for laser thermal transfer comprising a support having thereon a colorant layer comprising a colorant dispersed in a binder the colorant layer having associated therewith an infrared-absorbing cyanine colorant having a sulfonic acid group, the cyanine colorant having the following formula:

Stabilizer for infrared-absorbing cyanine colorant for laser-colorant transfer

A stable coating composition comprising an image dye, an infrared-absorbing dye, a polymeric binder, an organic solvent and a complexing agent having the following formula:

Stable coating composition

A metallized azo-ether dye comprising an azo group linking a substituted 3-hydroxy-pyridine nucleus to a phenyl nucleus wherein the phenyl nucleus has an alkoxy or thioether substituent at its 2-position. The dye is useful in the recording layers of optical recording elements.

Metallized azo-ether dyes for optical recording layers

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Derek D Chapman