Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company

Isao Hosoi

Takayuki Kimura

Masaru Ohta

Masaaki Matsuo

Arata Imabayashi

Masujiro Sumita

Hirohumi Aoki

An image-transfer apparatus equipped with a smoothing device (roller), which device, when an image-forming material is attached to a platen, prevents the formation of a crinkle in the image-forming material thereby to remove a deviation in registering (positioning) the image-forming material, and an image-transfer method using the above imge-transfer apparatus.

Image-transfer apparatus with movable smoothing roller and

A method of forming an image which comprises subjecting an image-forming material comprised of a substrate and a photosensitive layer containing a dye and/or a pigment and a photopolymerizable compound and disposed on the substrate to an image-exposure, thereby to allow the exposure to cause a difference of adhesion between an exposed portion and non-exposed portion in the photosensitive layer, and transferring the image to an image receptor on the basis of the difference of adhesion; wherein the photosensitive layer of the exposed image-forming material and the image receptor are allowed to face each other and directed into the nip between two rollers consisting of an elastic roller and a metallic roller having a surface temperature of between 50.degree. C. and 150.degree. C. with the image-forming material in contact with the elastic roller, thereby to transfer the image formed on the photosensitive layer to the image receptor through a nip portion of the two rollers, and the image-forming material and the image receptor are separated in a warm state after passage of these two members through the nip portion.

Method of image formation using heated rollers

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Tokyo, Japan

Isao Hosoi