Oji Paper Co., Ltd.

New Oji Paper Co, Ltd.

Kyoko Koyabu

Yasuyoshi Morita

Satoshi Fukui

Masaaki Matsuoka

Tatsuya Murata

A heat-sensitive recording material with a satisfactory whiteness and an enhanced heat-sensitivity is produced by a process comprising the steps of preparing a coating liquid containing a dye-precursor dispersion and a color developer dispersion, coating a surface of a sheet substrate with the coating liquid and solidifying the resultant coating liquid layer on the sheet substrate, in which process at least one member of the dye-precursor and the color developer is finely pulverized by at least one dispersing operation, in the presence of a pulverizing medium consisting of a number of solid grains having a diameter of 0.9 mm or less, into fine particles having an average size of 0.7 .mu.m or less.

Process for producing heat-sensitive recording material

A heat-sensitive recording material in which a heat-sensitive recording layer containing a colorless to light-colored basic Leuco dyestuff and a color developer is tightly contacted with a thermal head to effect color development, characterized in that ammonium zirconyl carbonate is contained in said heat-sensitive color-developing layer or in an undercoating layer so as to offer a heat-sensitive recording material which is superior in its high speed printing properties and free from printing hindrances caused by smudge deposition or sticking.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kyoko Koyabu