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Agfa-gevaert

Leon L Vermeulen

Robert S Pauwels

Ludovicus H Vervloet

Willy P De Smedt

Piet Kok

Ludovicus Maria Mertens

Louis Maria De Haes

Jean-Marie O Dewanckele

Robert J Pollet

Rene M De Keyzer

Markus Geiger

Arno Schmuck

Michel Boulonne

Ly Cuong

Hugo Karel Gevers

Luc J Vanmaele

Wilhelmus Janssens

Serge M Tavernier

Paul R Callant

Stefaan K De Meutter

Guido Vital Desie

Walter F De Winter

Dirk K Broddin

Werner Krafft

Albert Lucien Poot

Camille Angelina Vandeputte

Pierre H Nys

Jozef Willy Van Den Houte

Theofiel H Ghys

Karel L De Clerck

Paul Desire Van Pee

Stephan Jeanne Bongaerts

A process for producing a deformed image comprising the steps of: digitally exposing a color photographic silver halide material, said color photographic silver halide material comprising on a deformable plastic support at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler; conventionally processing said exposed color photographic material to produce an image; and deforming said color photographic material.

Process for producing a deformed image without significant image degradation

A deformable color photographic silver halide material, said color photographic silver halide material comprising on a deformable plastic support at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler can be deformed without loss in image quality and is suitable for large formats and automatic processing.

Deformable color photographic silver halide material

A method for printing information on a substrate having security features includes the steps of: applying a DC potential difference (DC.sub.TB) between a back electrode and a toner delivery means to create a flow of toner particles from the toner delivery means to the back electrode; interposing a printhead structure, the printhead structure having printing apertures and control electrodes around the printing apertures, between the toner delivery means and the back electrode so as to create a spacing having a width L between the printhead structure and the back electrode and to imagewise control the flow of toner particles; passing the substrate having a thickness T in .mu.m through the spacing; adjusting the spacing between the printhead structure and the back electrode such that the width of the spacing L is greater than or equal to 1.5 T; adjusting the DC potential difference (DC.sub.TB) such that the relationship .vertline.DC.sub.TB .vertline./L, expressed in volts per micrometer (V/.mu.m), is greater than or equal to 1.0; imagewise depositing the toner particles on the substrate through the printing apertures; and fixing the toner particles to the substrate.

Method and device for printing information on substrates having security

An apparatus for security printing of a document on a substrate, having a first and second side, comprising:

Apparatus for security printing using toner particles

The present invention provides a security document comprising (1) a laminate comprising two laminating elements serving as support and covering element and (2) an information carrier laminated between the laminating elements, at least one laminating element comprising two transparent or translucent plastic sheets serving as outer resin layer and inner resin layer characterized in that in the said at least one laminating element comprising an outer resin layer and an inner resin layer a fluorescent dye is comprised between said outer resin layer and said inner resin layer, said fluorescent dye giving light piping in said laminating element containing said fluorescent dye when irradiated with light having a wavelength between 200 and 1000 nm.

Laminated security document containing fluorescent dye giving light

The present invention provides an image receiving material comprising on a support an image receiving layer containing physical development nuclei characterised in that said image receiving material contains a nacreous pigment in said image receiving layer and/or in an optional layer between said support and said image receiving layer. Excellent contone images with an antique look can be obtained with such an image receiving material in a silver salt diffusion transfer process.

Image receiving material with nacreous pigment for producing contone

In a laminated product wherein at least one supported information-containing hydrophilic colloid layer is adhesively bonded on at least one of its surfaces to a protective hydrophobic resin sheet, improved adherence is achieved by using as the bonding adhesive a cationic crosslinked polymer obtained by:

Method of producing a tamper-proof laminate and product obtained thereby

A method for the production of a silver image by the silver complex diffusion transfer reversal process, said method comprising the following steps:

Method for the production of a silver image

A sheet, ribbon or web material comprising a support made of a synthetic resin or a paper support coated with a layer of said resin, wherein a resin surface of said support is coated with a subbing layer and the subbing layer itself is coated with a hydrophilic colloid image-receiving layer containing development nuclei for silver image formation by DTR-processing, characterized in that the synthetic resin of said support is a polycarbonate or polypropylene resin, and said subbing layer contains in percent by weight on its total weight following ingredients: 1.3% to 80% of proteinaceous colloid, e.g. gelatin or caseine,

Image-receiving material comprising subbed polycarbonate or polypropylene

A sandwich of sheet material and a plastic film on at least one side thereof is laminated together by advancing the sandwich in one direction between an opposed pair of rigid heating and pressure plates having mutually facing planar surfaces for contacting the sides of the sandwich. The plates of the pair being biased together under a pressure which increases in the direction of the sandwich advance while the pressure level across the plates transverse to the direction of advance at any locus along the plates is substantially uniform, and passing the thus heated and compressed sandwich between the nip of a pair of pressure rollers to complete welding of the sandwich together.

Heat-laminating apparatus

Process for the production of a laminated article including a sheet support bearing a silver image produced by the silver complex diffusion transfer process in a layer containing developement nuclei, wherein such supported image is heat-laminated with a protective thermoplastic resin layer of sheet that covers it. The heat-lamination of the nuclei-containing layer with the silver image therein takes place in the presence of at least one of certain heterocyclic black-toning agents which are effective to prevent degradation of the neutral black coloration and density loss of the silver image as a result of heat-lamination.

Process for the production of a laminated article

An image receiving material suitable for image production by dye diffusion transfer processing controlled by the development of (an) image-wise exposed silver halide emulsion layer(s), wherein said image receiving material comprises a supported image receiving layer free from gelatin and containing (1) a cationic polymeric mordant, and (2) colloidal silica applied from an aqueous acidic colloidal sol having a pH of not more than 4, and containing hydrated silica in combination with a smaller amount of colloidal alumina, the amount of said colloidal material to said mordant in the image-receiving layer being in a weight ratio range from 1/5 to 1/2, and silica (SiO.sub.2) being present at a coverage of at least 0.5 g per m2.

Dye image receiving material

A laminate is produced by bonding together two hydrophobic thermoplastic resin sheets at least one of which carries at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing a photograph and/or other information on its inner side, by the steps comprising:

Process for the production of a laminate

Image-receiving material for use in diffusion transfer reversal processing comprising a polyvinyl chloride resin support coated with a hydrophilic waterpermeable layer comprising a proteinaceous colloid and a water-dispersible ionogenic polyester-polyurethane wherein isocyanate groups still present in its structure have reacted with an ionogenic compound containing at least one active hydrogen atom and a carboxylate or sulphonate salt group. This material is useful for the production of tamper proof laminates for identification purposes.

Image-receiving material for use in diffusion transfer reversal

An image-receiving material suitable for image production by dye diffusion transfer processing controlled by the development of (an) image-wise exposed silver halide emulsion layer(s), wherein said image-receiving material contains a hydrophobic resin support coated with a subbing layer that is coated with an image-receiving layer containing gelatin in combination with a cationic polymeric mordant containing glycidyl groups that can react with active hydrogen atoms of gelatin, the weight ratio of said polymeric mordant to gelatin being 25:1 to 1:1 and the gelatin being present at a coverage of at least 0.1 g per m2, and wherein said subbing layer has been applied from an aqueous composition comprising a polyester-polyurethane wherein isocyanate groups still present in its structure have reacted with an ionomeric compound containing at least one active hydrogen atom and a carboxylate or sulphonate salt group.

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Herenthout, Belgium

Leon L Vermeulen