Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Koichiro Kuroda

Shuji Murakami

Daisuke Fukui

Toshiya Kondo

Yoshihiro Imakura

Ryoji Hattori

Kazuya Yoshida

Tomohiko Imoda

Yasuyuki Shouji

Shinichi Suzuki

Yuji Tanaka

Tomoko Suzuki

Yoshiyuki Nakamura

Junji Ito

Miki Kato

Mitsuhiro Kubotera

Yumiko Osawa

To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate, a release layer provided on the substrate, and a transfer layer provided on the release layer, wherein the transfer layer is provided peelably from the release layer, and the release layer contains a silsesquioxane.

Thermal transfer sheet, coating liquid for release layer, and method for producing thermal transfer sheet

Provided are a combination of a thermal transfer sheet and an intermediate transfer medium which is capable of accurately transferring only a transfer layer of the intermediate transfer medium desired to be transferred onto a transfer receiving article in the production of a print, and a thermal transfer sheet which is used in combination with an intermediate transfer medium. Also provided are a method for producing a print, comprising accurately transferring only a transfer layer of an intermediate transfer medium desired to be transferred onto a transfer receiving article, and a thermal transfer printer which is used in this method for producing a print. In the thermal transfer sheet which is used in combination with an intermediate transfer medium, inhibit layeris disposed on substrate, and the inhibit layercontains a carnauba wax.

Thermal transfer sheet, combination of thermal transfer sheet and intermediate transfer medium, method for producing print, and thermal transfer printer

To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate, a release layerprovided on the substrate, and a transfer layerprovided on the release layer, wherein the transfer layeris provided peelably from the release layer, and the release layercontains a silsesquioxane.

A heat transfer system is provided with a first heating element that transfers ink in an ink layer to a transfer-receiving body in a first pattern, a winding part that winds an ink ribbon having ink transferred therein on the downstream side of the first heating element in such a manner that a back surface layer is positioned outside the ink layer, a second heating element that transfers ink in the ink layer to the back surface layer inside the ink layer in a second pattern near the winding part, and a controller that controls the heating elements, and the controller controls the first heating element to transfer ink corresponding to the first pattern by transferring a portion of the ink layer, and controls the second heating element to transfer ink corresponding to the second pattern by transferring the ink layer as a whole.

Heat transfer system, winding device, heat transfer method, and winding method

This invention provides a silver halide emulsion, a silver halide photographic material and an image forming method, which is excellent in high sensitivity, good gradation, coating composition store stability and latent image store stability regardless exposing method, particularly excellent latent image store stability at high intensity and shot period exposure of digital exposure, and by which a high quality print is obtained. The silver halide emulsion contains silver halide grains having silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %, silver iodide content of 0-2.0 mol %, and silver bromide content of 0.02-5.0 mol %, and containing at least two kinds of Group 8 metal compounds containing at least one iridium compound inside of the silver halide grains, in which the silver halide grains are subjected to selenium sensitization in presence of a compound represented by formula (S) 

Silver halide emulsion silver halide photographic sensitive material and method of image formation

A silver halide photographic material, including a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide particles having a silver chloride content of more than or equal to 90 mol %, wherein a compound represented by Formula (S) is contained in the interior and on a surface of the silver halide particles and in a binder of the silver halide emulsion layer, and the silver halide particles have more than two silver halide phases therein having different concentration of the compound represented by Formula (S): 

Silver halide photosensitive material and image forming method therefor

A silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains containing at least 90 mol % chloride, 0.02 to 5.0 mol % bromide and 0 to 2.0 mol % iodide, which is prepared by a process comprising (i) forming a silver halide grain emulsion, (ii) subjecting the silver halide emulsion to desalting and (iii) subjecting the desalted silver halide emulsion to chemical sensitization by adding a chemical sensitizer, wherein in the step (iii), at least one compound represented by the following formula (1) to (4) is added before adding a chemical sensitizer and at least one compound represented by the following formula (1) to (4) is further added after adding a chemical sensitizer

Silver halide emulsion and silver halide photographic material

A silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains comprising silver chlorobromide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, wherein each of silver halide grains has a silver chloride content of not less than 98% and comprises a silver bromide-containing layer having a silver bromide content of 0.5 to 5%, and the silver bromide-containing layer is located at a depth of 0 to 0.01 &mgr;m from the surface of the grain. A silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains containing Compound A having adsorptivity to silver, wherein each of the silver halide grains has a silver chloride content of not less than 90% has a core-shell structure comprised of a core and shell having different contents of Compound A each other, and the content of Compound A in the shell is smaller than the content of Compound A in the core.

SILVER HALIDE EMULSION, PREPARATION METHOD OF SILVER HALIDE EMULSION, SILVER HALIDE LIGHT-SENSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL, SILVER HALIDE LIGHT-SENSITIVE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

Silver halide emulsion

A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, containing silver halide grains having a chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, wherein the silver halide grains each are internally doped with compound (A), compound (B) and compound (C); compounds (A) and (B) each meeting specified requirements and compound (C) being an iridium compound.

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Koichiro Kuroda