Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Kimie Tsuboi

Mitsuru Kondo

Nobuo Kanda

Fumio Seyama

In a heat-sensitive recording material incorporating a colorless or pale-colored basic dye and a color acceptor which is reactive with the dye to form a color when contacted therewith, the recording material characterized in that (a) as the basic dye are used 100 parts by weight of a specific phthalide derivative of the formula [I] and 20 to 100 parts by weight of a specific black color-forming fluoran derivative of the formula [II], (b) as the color acceptor is used a polyvalent metal salt of an aromatic carboxylic acid and (c) a recording sensitizer is further used, and whereby the resulting record images are at least 0.75 in PCS value at 800 nm.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Kimie Tsuboi