Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Keiji Takeda

Masayoshi Nagata

Kenji Matsumoto

Hiroshi Tamura

Hiroaki Yokoya

Katsuji Kitatani

Masayoshi Tsuboi

Osami Tanabe

Teppei Ikeda

Masataka Murata

Akio Higashi

Mitsuharu Nirasawa

Masato Fujiwara

Kozo Sato

Taku Nakamura

Jiro Tsukahara

Masatoshi Tabei

Yuzo Mizobuchi

Kazuhiro Kawashiri

Kazuhiro Kawaziri

Yoshihide Hayakawa

The present invention provides 4 embodiments of a new image forming method. The image forming method uses a light-sensitive material and an image receiving material. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive polymerizable layer provided thereon. The light-sensitive polymerizable layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent, an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or/and a cross-linkable polymer and a colorant. The image forming method comprises an exposing step, a developing step, a removing step, a transferring step and a repeating step. Some embodiments of the method further contain a laminating step. The present invention is characterized in that a multicolor image is formed on an image receiving material by the repeating step.

Color image forming method using silver halide, reducing agent,

The present invention provides 6 embodiments of a new image forming method. The image forming method uses a light-sensitive material and an image receiving material. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive polymerizable layer provided thereon. Some embodiments of the light-sensitive material further have an adhesive layer. The light-sensitive polymerizable layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or/and a cross-linkable polymer. Some embodiments of the light-sensitive polymerizable layer further contain a colorant. The image forming method comprises an exposing step, a developing step, a removing step and a transferring step or a laminating step. Some embodiments of the image forming method further contains a peeling step or a toning step. The present invention is characterized in the combination of the removing step with the transferring step or the laminating step. New light-sensitive materials having the adhesive layer are also disclosed.

Image forming method and light-sensitive material using silver halide,

The present invention provides 3 embodiments of a new image forming method. The image forming method uses a light-sensitive material and an removing sheet. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive polymerizable layer provided thereon. Some embodiments of the light-sensitive material further have an adhesive layer. The light-sensitive polymerizable layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or/and a cross-linkable polymer. Some embodiments of the light-sensitive polymerizable layer further contain a colorant. The image forming method comprises an exposing step, a developing step and a removing step. Some embodiments of the image forming method further contains a toning step. The present invention is characterized in the removing step using a removing sheet.

Image forming method using silver halide, reducing agent and

A light-sensitive material contains silver halide, a reducing agent and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or/and a cross-linkable polymer. According to the present invention, the light-sensitive material comprises a support and at least three image forming functional layers. The layers include a light-sensitive layer, a polymerizable layer and an image formation accelerating layer. The light-sensitive layer contains silver halide. The polymerizable layer contains the ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or/and the cross-linkable polymer. The image formation accelerating layer contains a component having a function of accelerating image formation. The component is selected from a reducing agent, a base, a base precursor and a heat development accelerator. The uppermost layer of the light-sensitive material preferably contains a polyvinyl alcohol having a saponification degree of not less than 70%. The light-sensitive material of the present invention is heat-developable. The present invention is based on a new discovery that a light-sensitive material comprising three or more image forming functional layers can be developed. An image forming method using the light-sensitive material is also disclosed.

Light-sensitive material comprising light-sensitive layer, polymerizable

An image recording method comprising imagewise exposing to light a light-sensitive material containing a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent capable of developing a silver halide, a polymerizable vinyl monomer, and a thermal polymerization initiator, to form a latent image of the light-sensitive silver halide, and substantially uniformly heating the exposed light-sensitive material to imagewise polymerize the polymerizable vinyl monomer to form a polymer image, and an image recording material used, therefor are disclosed. The method provides a polymer image with photosensitivity comparable to conventional silver halide light-sensitive materials, which requires only a dry process, for a short time, and allows for use of a reduced amount of a silver halide.

Method of forming a polymer image

A light-sensitive material contains silver halide, a reducing agent, an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or/and a cross-linkable polymer, and a base or/and a base precursor. According to the present invention, the light-sensitive material comprises a support, a polymerizable layer and a light-sensitive layer in the order. The polymerizable layer contains the ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound or/and the cross-linkable polymer. The light-sensitive layer contains silver halide, and a base or/and a base precursor. The reducing agent is contained in the polymerizable layer or/and the light-sensitive layer. A protective layer is preferably provided on the light-sensitive layer. The light-sensitive material of the present invention is heat-developable. The present invention is based on a new discovery that a light-sensitive material comprising a polymerizable layer and a light-sensitive layer can be developed by heat. An image forming method using the light-sensitive material is also disclosed.

Method of exposing and heating a light-sensitive material comprising

Disclosed are an image-receiving material comprising a support and an image-receiving layer provided thereon which contains a developer and a binder polymer mixture composed of at least two kinds of water-soluble polymers which undergo phase separation in the mixed state. This image-receiving material is advantageously employed in an image-forming method which comprises the steps of imagewise exposing to light a light-sensitive material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer containing silver halide, a reducing agent, and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound; simultaneously or thereafter developing the light-sensitive material; and pressing the light-sensitive material on the image-receiving material to transfer the unpolymerized polymerizable compound to the image-receiving layer.

Image-receiving material and image-forming method employing the same

A light-sensitive composition in which microcapsules having a core material comprising a silver halide emulsion are dispersed in a polymerizable compound, and a light-sensitive material comprising a light-sensitive layer containing the light-sensitive composition and a reducing agent provided on a support.

Light-sensitive composition comprising silver halide dispersed in

A process for preparation of a light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive layer which contains light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a base precursor and an ethylenic unsasturated polymerizable compound. The process comprises emulsifying an aqueous dispersion of a base precursor in an oily medium containing the polymerizable compound in the range of 0.1 to 100 weight %.

Process for preparation of light-sensitive material containing silver

A process for formation of a base from a base precursor, which comprises decomposing the base precursor in the presence of a catalyst. The base precursor has the following formula (I) or (II):

Process for formation of base and light-sensitive material

A method for recording a photographic image on an image-recording material is provided, wherein an image-recording material formed by coating at least a photographic silver halide, a polymerizable vinyl monomer, and a hydrazine derivative represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a group represented by ##STR2## positioned in an ortho-, meta-, or para-position on the benzene ring; Y represents ##STR3## or --SO.sub.2 --; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted alkyl group, or a substituted alkyl group, provided that R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom only when Y represents ##STR4## on a support is imagewise exposed to form a latent image in said photographic silver halide and then heated so as to polymerize said polymerizable vinyl monomer in the part having said latent image to form a polymer image therein. The present process does not require any wet treatment, and is capable of forming a polymer image simply by heating for a short period of time, and thus, may record a polymer image with a photo-sensitivity which is comparable to that of a conventional silver halide photographic material, with the use of only a small amount of silver halide.

Photographic image recording method using silver halide and vinyl monomer

Image-forming method employing light-sensitive material and

An image recording process and image recording material are described, said material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive layer containing in a binder a light-sensitive silver halide, a polymrizable vinyl monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and a reducing agent which has a function as a developing agent for silver halide and a function as a polymerization inhibitor for the polymerizable vinyl monomer, but loses the function as a polymerization inhibitor after development of silver halide, and said process comprising imagewise exposure, heating and uniform light exposure.

Image recording process using both silver halide and vinyl monomers

An image-recording process is disclosed, which comprises using a photopolymerizable element comprising a polymerizable vinyl monomer and/or a polymerizable prepolymer, a photopolymerization initiator and a dye capable of being bleached with said vinyl monomer and/or prepolymer or a dye precursor capable of producing the bleachable dye upon being heated, conducting imagewise exposure to polymerize the photopolymerizable element, and heating it to bleach the dye with non-polymerized monomer and/or non-polymerized prepolymer remaining in portions not exposed or exposed or to bleach dye produced from the dye precursor upon heating. A negative working image-recording material for this process is also disclosed.

Photopolymerizable image-recording process of producing a visible image

The present invention relates to an image recording process which comprises a step of (i) imagewise exposing a layer containing at least silver halide of an image recording material comprising (a) silver halide, (b) a reducing agent capable of developing silver halide, (c) a photopolymerization sensitizing dye capable of being reduced into a leuco substance by said reducing agent, and (d) a polymerizable vinyl monomer, to light to form a latent image, a step of (ii) uniformly heating said recording material to form a photopolymerization sensitizing dye image in a part corresponding to said latent image, and thereafter a step of (iii) uniformly exposing a layer containing at least said formed photopolymerization sensitizing dye image and said polymerizable vinyl monomer to light to form a polymer image in the part where said photopolymerization sensitizing dye image is present, by photopolymerization. By this process, polymer images formed by photopolymerization can be obtained even if the exposure amount is low, and the polymer image can be obtained by dry processing at a low exposure amount.

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