Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Hideyuki Shirai

Junichiro Hosokawa

Yasufumi Nakai

Yoichi Hosoya

Hisato Nagase

Masaaki Miki

Ryoji Nishimura

Kouichi Yokota

Hidekazu Sakai

Kazuaki Oguma

Katsuyuki Nukui

Tetsuo Kikuchi

Kouchi Yokota

A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having a heat insulation layer containing hollow polymer particles, and at least two layers of receptor layers, coated in this order on one surface of a support, the receptor layer nearest from the support containing hollow polymer particles and a latex polymer, and the receptor layer furthest from the support containing no hollow polymer particles but a latex polymer.

Heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet

A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having at least one heat insulation layer and at least one receptor layer on a support, the heat insulation layer containing at least one hollow polymer, and the receptor layer containing at least one latex polymer having the glass transition temperature (Tg) of 20&#xb0; C. to 60&#xb0; C. and at least one polymer compound having an aliphatic group substituted with a fluorine atom at its side chain.

A heat-sensitive transfer sheet, containing a substrate, at least one thermal transfer layer containing a thermally transferable dye and a resin, disposed on one surface of the substrate, and a heat-resistant slipping layer disposed on another surface of the substrate, wherein said at least one thermal transfer layer contains at least one kind of polymer type releasing agent having a mass-average molecular weight of 5,000 to 100,000 and also having a fluorine-substituted aliphatic group at a side chain of the polymer, and at least one kind of non-polymer type fluorine-system surfactant.

Heat-sensitive transfer sheet

A method of forming an image, containing superposing a heat-sensitive transfer sheet on a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, and applying thermal energy from a side of a heat-resistant lubricating layer described below of the heat-sensitive transfer sheet, to form a thermally transferred image, in which the heat-sensitive transfer sheet comprises a substrate, a thermal transfer layer containing a thermally transferable dye and a resin on one face of the substrate, and the heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other face of the substrate; the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet comprise a support, and a heat insulation layer and a receptor layer on the support in this order; the thermal transfer layer contains a polymer compound having fluorine atom-substituted aliphatic groups on its side chains; and the receptor layer contains a latex polymer having a glass transition temperature of from 20&#xb0; C. to 60&#xb0; C.

Method of forming image by thermal transfer

A silver halide photographic material, includes transparent support having provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the average equivalent-sphere diameter of the silver halide grains contained in each layers is 0.35 &#x3bc;m or less, and an upper layer of the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains a fixed magenta dye, an upper layer or the red-sensitive emulsion layer contains a fixed cyan dye, and the green-sensitive layer contains a pyrazolotriazole, pyrazolopyrrole or 4-thio-pyrazolo-5-one coupler having a specific structure, and an image-recording method uses the photographic material.

Silver halide photographic material and image forming method using the same

An image-forming method of recording a digital image data in resolution of 2,000 dpi or more, the method comprising: recording a digital image data on a silver halide photographic material with little deterioration.

Silver halide photographic material and image-forming method using the same

A silver halide color photosensitive material composing respectively at least one red-, green-, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the color photosensitive material containing a magenta dye which is fixed in the specific layer and is not colored by a coupling reaction with developing agent oxidation products, and/or containing a cyan dye which is fixed in the specific layer and is not colored by a coupling reaction with developing agent oxidation products, and containing an ultraviolet absorptive polymer latex represented by the formula (I) which is impregnated with a non high molecular weight ultraviolet absorptive compound.wherein a phenyl ring or a benzo ring may be optionally substituted, either of m or n is 1 and another is 0, and M and K are represented by the following formula (II):wherein R3 is H or an alkyl group, L is a divalent binding group, and p is 0 or 1.

Silver halide color photosensitive material

A high sensitivity silver halide emulsion excellent in keeping quality and rapid processing in which tabular silver halide grains having {100} faces as two main planes parallel to each other, an aspect ratio of 2 or more and a mean silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more occupy 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains, said silver halide emulsion being spectrally sensitized with a trimethineoxathiacyanine dye, etc., and a photographic material using the emulsion.

Silver halide emulsion and silver halide photographic material using the

A silver halide emulsion is described, which contains tabular silver halide grains having {100} faces as the parallel two major planes, having an aspect ratio of 2 or more and having a mean silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, in an amount of 50% or more of the total projected area of all the silver halide grains therein, and which is spectrally sensitized with a particular trimethine dye of formula (I). A photographic material having the emulsion has a high sensitivity and good storability and can be processed rapidly.

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Hideyuki Shirai