Sony Corporation

Satoru Shinohara

Yoshio Fujiwara

Masanobu Hida

Motohiro Mizumachi

Tetsuya Abe

Kenichi Saito

Naotake Kobayashi

Akihiko Konno

Akihiro Horii

Kengo Ito

Hiroshi Nakano

Kei Obata

Hiroshi Fukuda

Huy Sam

Yasushi Hirumi

Yoshinori Nakamura

Hiroaki Ogasawara

Katsuya Tanba

Yumiko Nagano

Sanae Okuyama

Disclosed herein is a thermal transfer sheet including: a dye layer which is provided on one side of a substrate and which contains an indoaniline dye; and a transferred image coating layer provided on that side of the substrate on which the dye layer is formed, the transferred image coating layer being operable to coat an image thermally transferred onto a transferred image receiving sheet, wherein the transferred image coating layer contains a compound having a predetermined structure and a binder resin, and the content of the compound having the predetermined structure is 0.5 to 8 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the binder resin.

Thermal transfer sheet, transferred image receiving sheet, and thermal transfer method

A method of forming a latent image portion on an overcoat layer by a difference in surface brilliance, at the time of layering an overcoat layer on a thermal transfer subject sheet by a heat transfer method, includes the steps of: setting at least two types of applied energy from the thermal head wherein a plurality of thermal elements are arrayed in line form, and layering the overcoat layer on the thermal transfer subject sheet; forming a difference in surface brilliance made up of a region of relatively high degree of brilliance and a region of relatively low degree of brilliance, based on the difference in the applied energy, to form a line pattern with a plurality of lines; and forming the lines by shifting a phase of a line pattern of the latent image portion and the line pattern of a background portion excluding the latent image portion.

Method of forming a latent image on an overcoat layer

A thermal transfer member includes a plurality of color material layers on one surface of a base material, wherein at least one of the color material layers contains a dicyanomethine based coloring agent represented by Structural formula 1 and at least one of the other color material layers contains an indoaniline based coloring agent represented by Structural formula 2. 

Thermal transfer member, thermal transfer member set, and recording method

A thermal transfer sheet includes coloring material layers D, D, and D. Transferred images respectively formed by the coloring material layers D, D, and Dhave a value C defined by mathematical formula 1 of less than 12, and colorimetric values P (a*, b*) defined by mathematical formulae 2 and 3 different from one another:=([)&#x2003;&#x2003;(mathematical formula 1)where C represents chroma and a* and b* each represent a colorimetric value equivalent to L*=38,[*]=()/()*(38&#x2212;)+&#x2003;&#x2003;(mathematical formula 2), and[*]=()/()*(38&#x2212;)+&#x2003;&#x2003;(mathematical formula 3)where Lx, ax, bx, Ly, ay, and by represent colorimetric values at adjacent step Sx and step Sy near L*=38 when a stairstep image is formed by transfer.

Thermal transfer sheet, thermal transfer sheet set, and image forming method

An inkjet-recording medium has excellent various preservabilities, for example, the lightfastness of an image, resistance to bleeding under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions, and resistance to indoor fading and discoloration when a surface of a printing paper is subjected to laminating treatment. In an inkjet-recording medium having an ink-receiving layer on one surface of a base, the base having abilities to absorb and retain an ink solvent, a low oxygen-permeable resin layer preferably having an oxygen permeability of 10 cc/(m&#xb7;D&#xb7;atm) at a temperature of 20&#xb0; C. and at a relative humidity of 90% is provided on another surface of the base.

Ink jet recording medium, method of ink jet image formation and photographic print

A card making device allowing easy procurement of a character card desired by the user. When specified conditions are satisfied during a game, character data for a specified character are extracted from a character data storage means by a character data extraction means, specified character data are selected by a character selection means, card layout information is input by a card layout information input means, card layout of character data selected according to card layout information is performed by a card display image information generation means and card display image information is then generated and output to a printer by means of a card display information output means.

Card making device, card making method and recording medium thereof

Developing paper

An ink ribbon adapted to be used for a sublimation type thermal transfer printer, said ink ribbon comprises a ribbon-shaped substrate, ink layers formed on a surface of said substrate and containing dyes, sensor marks formed on said surface of said substrate and a back coat layer formed on the other surface of said substrate, said sensor marks containing first carbon black with an average particle diameter of 30 nm or less and second carbon black with an average particle diameter of 270 nm or more. Such an ink ribbon significantly improve the reliability of detecting sensor marks and the shelf life.

Ink ribbon

Photographic paper

Transfer material for use in forming images of a sepia tone

The present invention proves a transfer type image protecting film having a base film, an ultraviolet absorbing layer formed on a surface of the base film, and a surface adhesive layer formed on the ultraviolet absorbing layer and containing no ultraviolet absorber. This image protecting film is capable of effectively protecting an image from ultraviolet rays. The present invention also provides a method of producing the same image protecting film.

Transfer type image protecting film and method of producing the same

A transfer material colored to a predetermined color is used when images are formed on a transfer material for use in thermal transfer comprising a substrate and a dye receiving layer by a thermal transfer process. When images are formed by an optional image forming method such as silver salt photographic process, ink jet process or thermal transfer process, a transfer material having sepia tone is used in each of the image forming processes thereby forming sepia tone images. Images having unique appearance can be formed easily upon forming images by a thermal transfer process. Images of sepia tone can be formed safely and conveniently.

Method for forming images of a sepia tone

Transfer material for use in thermal transfer and method of forming

An image-transfer ink ribbon which is prevented from unsuitable coloring of an image-protective layer thereon is disclosed, which includes a base film, at least one ink layer formed on one surface of the base film, an image-protective layer formed on the one surface of the base film so as to be arranged on the same plane where the at least one ink layer is formed, and a resin layer made of a resin having a low dye affinity and formed on the image-protective layer. In accordance with the present invention, there are also disclosed an image-transferred member prepared by using the image-transfer ink ribbon, and a method for the production of the image-transferred member.

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Miyagi, Japan

Satoru Shinohara