Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Oriental Photo Industrial Co., Ltd.

Susumu Nakamura

Tetsuro Fukui

Akihiro Mouri

Masato Katayama

Kazuo Isaka

Masao Suzuki

Kenji Kagami

An image forming method is conducted by subjecting a dry silver salt image forming medium to imagewise exposure and heating to form a light-absorbing organic compound. Thereafter, the medium is subjected to polymerization exposure to imagewise polymerize the medium based on the formation pattern of the light-absorbing compound. The light-absorbing organic compound has specific sensitivities to light in order to maximize contrast.

Image forming method

An image forming method, comprises the steps of, using an image forming medium containing a heat-diffusible coloring matter, a polymerizable polymer precursor and a polymerization initiator; causing said polymerizable polymer precursor of said image forming medium to selectively polymerize to form a latent image comprised of a polymerized area and an unpolymerized area; and

Image forming method and image forming medium

Light sensitive image forming medium

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Kawasaki, Japan

Susumu Nakamura