Eastman-kodak Company

John M Riley

Gerald J Kosarko

Thomas E Dussinger

William K Hickok

A process for forming a color image which may be used to represent a printed color image to be obtained from a printing press comprising (a) forming a thermal dye transfer image in a polymeric dye image-receiving layer of an intermediate dye-receiving element by imagewise-heating a dye-donor element and transferring a dye image to the dye image-receiving layer, (b) laminating a polymeric dye-migration barrier layer to the imaged dye image-receiving layer, and (c) laminating the dye-migration barrier layer and imaged dye image-receiving layer together to the surface of a paper substrate. By applying a dye-migration barrier layer to the imaged dye image-receiving layer and subsequently laminating both layers to the paper substrate together, the final paper substrate is subjected to only a single lamination step, and wrinkles caused by multiple laminations can be virtually eliminated.

Dual laminate process for thermal color proofing

A pair of oppositely-disposed stabilizer devices support opposed magnetic heads for interfacing with opposite sides of a rotating magnetic disk. Each stabilizer device includes a block with an opening through which the magnetic head protrudes for engagement with a respective side of the disk. A flat, circumferential air bearing surface on each block surrounds the opening adjacent the disk for generating coupling forces that deform the disk out of its nominal plane on opposite sides thereof and into intimate contact with the transducing gaps on the respective heads. The stabilizer devices are positioned in relation to separate radii depending from the center of the drive spindle so that a circumferential offset is established that permits substantially separate interaction of the air bearing surfaces with the disk.

Magnetic recording device using circumferentially offset heads with

A double-sided recording device supports two transducers in fixed relation on opposite sides of a storage medium so that a fixed separation is maintained between the transducers. By making the separation substantially greater than the transducing cross-section of the medium, only one transducer at a time can effectively interface with the medium. Each transducer is mounted in a stabilizing device having an air bearing surface that promotes an effective interface through one-sided contact with the medium. In one embodiment, the medium is supported on a drive spindle that moves axially between two playing positions, one in which the medium is brought into operative relation with the first transducer and the other in which the medium is brought into operative relation with the second transducer. In another embodiment, the transducers are supported in fixed relation on a yoke that moves in relation to a fixed motor spindle.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

John M Riley