Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Makoto Ono

Naoto Yanagihara

Kensuke Ikeda

Kunihiko Ohga

Yoshihito Hodosawa

A photoimaging material which comprises a support and a photoimaging layer formed on the support. The photoimaging layer comprises microcapsules and a reducing agent present outside the microcapsules. The microcapsules contain a leuco dye capable of oxidative color formation, a photooxidizing agent and an organosulfur antioxidant. The reducing agent is 2,2&prime;-methylenebis(4-methyl-6-t-butylphenol) or 2,2&prime;-methylenebis(4-ethyl-6-t-butylphenol). The photoimaging material is capable of thermal image fixing based on a method of forming color by radical oxidation of various leuco dyes to the corresponding dyes with a photooxidizing agent. The photoimaging material is not prone to background coloring (fogging) during storage under dark or light conditions after image fixing, and does not foul the inside of the apparatus during thermal image fixing.

Photoimaging material

The present invention provides a recording material comprising a substrate, a heat-sensitive layer formed on the substrate by a coating liquid containing (1) microcapsules containing a colorless or light-colored electron-donative dye precursor and (2) a dispersion of solids comprising color developers, and a protective layer formed on the heat-sensitive layer, wherein the dispersion of solids comprising color developers is a dispersion prepared by co-dispersing at least three color developers including at least one solid color developer, preferably a water-soluble color developer, in the form of solid particles and at least one amorphous color developer together with a water-soluble polymer, and wherein the solid particles of the color developers contained in the dispersion have particle diameters in the range of from 0.3 to 0.5 .mu.m and the haze of the heat-sensitive recording material is 55% or less.

Heat-sensitive recording material

An optical image forming material in which the background portions thereof are not color developed (not fogged) during storage in the dark after fixing, comprising a support having thereon at least a coating layer containing (1) microcapsules containing a leuco dye which is form color when it is oxidized and a photooxidizing agent, and (2) a reducing agent and a fixing accelerator present outside of the microcapsules. The reducing agent is a hydroquinone derivative substituted by an alkyl group at each of 2- and 5-positions thereof, and the fixing accelerator is 2,2-bis(4-hydroxy-phenyl)propane.

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