Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Katsumi Maejima

Sota Kawakami

Atsushi Nakajima

Shinji Matsumoto

Koichi Nakatani

Katsuyuki Takeda

Masayuki Kurematsu

Tatsuichi Maehashi

Toshiaki Shibue

Shozo Kikugawa

Ai Katsuda

Tomohisa Ohta

Taro Konuma

Shizuka Tojima

Tomoko Takeyama

Disclosed is an anti-glare anti-reflection film having a low haze and reduced in unevenness and dazzle. The film contains a thermoplastic resin film and at least a hard coat layer and an anti-reflection layer provided on a first surface of the thermoplastic resin film. In the film, a first convexoconcave structure that can give an anti-glare property is provided on the first surface of the thermoplastic resin film or the surface of a layer provided on the first surface of the thermoplastic resin film, and a second convexoconcave structure that can give an anti-glare property is provided on a second surface which is the other surface of the thermoplastic resin film or the surface of a layer provided on the second surface of the thermoplastic resin film. The anti-glare anti-reflection film has an average film thickness of 20 to 70 &#x3bc;m.

Method of manufacturing an anti-glare anti-reflection film

A laser thermal transfer recording method is disclosed. The method employs an ink sheet having a light-heat conversion layer an a laser thermal transfer image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer in which Vicat softening point of the resin composing the thermoplastic layer of the image receiving layer is less than 80&deg; C., and one of the image receiving layer and the ink layer contains a matting agent having a particle diameter larger than the thickness of the layer containing matting agent, the projection height of the matting agent is less than 3.5 &mgr;m and the frequency of the projections is from 400/mm to 4,000/mm , and the peeling angle of the ink sheet and the image receiving sheet is controlled at an angle less than 30&deg;.

Ink sheet, recording medium and recording method for laser thermal transfer recording

Laser-induced thermal transfer ink sheet, production method of the same, and image recording method

A thermal transfer image forming material is disclosed, which comprises a intermediate layer, and an image forming layer onto a support. The thermal transfer image forming material comprises a matting material having a number average grain diameter greater than the average thickness of the intermediate cushion layer.

Thermal transfer image forming material

A thermal transfer image forming method using a laser is disclosed. The method is comprises the steps of

Thermal transfer image forming method using laser

Presensitized lithographic printing plate and method for preparing

A thermal transfer image receiving material is disclosed which comprises a support having a first surface and a second surface, a cushion layer and an image receiving layer provided on the first surface in that order, and a back coat layer provided on the second surface, wherein the surface of the back coat layer has a suction pressure of 300 mmHg or more.

Thermal transfer image receiving material with backcoat

Disclosed is a light-heat converting type heat mode recording process using a recording material and an image receiving material, which comprises the steps of:

Light-heat converting type heat mode recording process wherein the

A process for image forming by heat transfer method is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of (1) transferring an ink image from an ink layer of an ink sheet, which comprises a support and an ink layer provided on the support, to a surface of an intermediate image receiving layer of an intermediate image receiving sheet, which comprises a support and an image receiving layer provided on the support, by imagewise heating the ink layer, and (2) re-transferring the ink image transferred on the intermediate image receiving layer to a secondary image receiving sheet, In the above process, the ink layer comprises a coloring material and a homopolymer or a copolymer comprising a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the following Formula 1 or a phthalic polyester formed by polymerization of phthalic acid and a polyol; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms or a --COOR.sub.5 group, R.sub.5 a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms.

Heat transfer recording process using an intermediate recording sheet

Disclosed is a heat mode thermal transfer recording material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-heat converting layer containing a water-soluble colorant and an ink layer. The heat mode thermal transfer recording material is capable of forming transferred images excellent in color reproduction.

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Hino, Japan

Katsumi Maejima