Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Tomohisa Tago

Fumiaki Shinozaki

Tomizo Namiki

Tamotsu Suzuki

Mikio Totsuka

Kazuo Suzuki

Hideyuki Nakamura

Shinichi Ichikawa

Shinji Hamada

Yoshimoto Tanase

Disclosed is an image forming process employing a light-sensitive image forming material and a developing solution. The image forming material comprises a support, a peel layer and a light-sensitive resin layer containing a pigment having an anionic group, superposed in order. The process comprises the steps of imagewise exposing the image forming material to light and developing the material by the use of a developing solution having a polymer having the following recurring unit (A): ##STR1## such as poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) to form an image on the peel layer.

Image forming process

A light-sensitive transfer sheet is disclosed, which comprises a support having provided thereon a peeling layer comprising an alcohol-soluble polyamide, an alkali-soluble organic polymer and a basic compound, and a color material-incorporated light-sensitive resin layer or a color material layer and a light-sensitive resin layer, in that order.

Image forming material

Photosensitive material with alkali-in soluble barrier layer

A photosensitive image receiving sheet material employable for color proofing and color display which comprises a photopolymerizable adhesive layer provided on a support via a releasable organic high-molecular polymer layer.

Use of photosensitive image receiving sheet material in imaging transfer

A method for transferring an image from an image sheet to an image-receiving sheet while the sheets are superposed, and an apparatus therefor. A support plate of good thermal conductivity and rigidity is placed against the sheets, and a cover sheet superposed remotely from the support plate. The resulting assembly is passed through a pair of heated rollers. Cooling rollers may cool the superposed sheets following image transfer. Additional cooling may be provided.

Image transfer apparatus and method

A process for preparing a color proofing sheet is disclosed. The process comprises imagewise exposing a light-sensitive image-forming material comprising a transparent support having provided thereon a dye- or pigment-containing light-sensitive photoresist composition layer or both a dye- or pigment-containing colorant layer and a light-sensitive photoresist composition layer through a color separation mask, developing the material to form a color separation image, transferring the color separation image onto a photopolymerizable image-receiving layer, transferring in registration at least one more color separation image onto the same image-receiving layer to obtain a multicolored color proofing sheet on a single support, and totally exposing the image-receiving layer after the image transfer in an amount sufficient to induce photopolymerization thereof. A color proofing sheet realizing color reproduction essentially the same as actual print copies and has a good image strength and non-tackiness can be obtained by the process.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Tomohisa Tago