Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Corporation

Tomoo Kobayashi

Kaoru Torikoshi

Kunio Sakurai

Tetsuro Kodera

Naoyuki Egusa

Kiyokazu Mashimo

Toru Ishii

Fumio Ojima

Tadakazu Ezure

Tomozumi Uesaka

Tadakazu Edure

Ryosaku Igarashi

Taketoshi Hoshizaki

Ichiro Takegawa

Michiaki Takahashi

Katsumi Nukada

Hideaki Tanaka

Akira Imai

Katsuhiro Sato

Masahiro Iwasaki

Hiroaki Moriyama

Yutaka Akasaki

Katsumi Harada

Kojiro Tsutsumi

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Toshiyasu Yukawa

Shigetoshi Nakamura

Tsutomu Kubo

Kazuo Maruyama

Takeshi Sumikawa

Isao Ito

Shigeo Ohno

Kohichi Yamamoto

Shintaro Kikuchi

Masashi Ogasawara

Keiko Ariie

Takeshi Nagao

An image recording medium includes an image supporting member that has a ruggedness on a surface and has a surface roughness Rz of 3 &#x3bc;m or more, an image receiving layer that includes a first thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 60&#xb0; C. or more and a second thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 15&#xb0; C. or less, and a transparent supporting member, in this order, wherein an image formed of an image forming material is provided between the image supporting member and the image receiving layer and a ruggedness corresponding to the ruggedness of the image supporting member is formed on an outermost surface of the image recording medium on a side of the transparent supporting member.

Image recording medium and method for preparing image recording medium

An image transfer device includes a transfer unit and a transport unit. The transfer unit that heats a layered body including a recording member, which is flexible and has an image recorded on a recording surface thereof, and a base member, onto which the image on the recording member is to be transferred, to transfer the image recorded on the recording surface onto the base member. The transfer unit transporting the layered body by rotating while being in contact with a back surface of the recording member on a side opposite to the side of the recording surface. The transport unit disposed upstream of the transfer unit in a transport direction of the layered body. The transport unit rotating while being in contact with the back surface of the recording member to transport the layered body to the transfer unit.

Image transfer device and image forming apparatus

There is provided an image transfer sheet, including: an image receiving layer; a bonding layer; a transparent support; and a substrate, in this order, wherein a peeling strength between the transparent support and the substrate is lower than a peeling strength between the image receiving layer and the bonding layer, and between the bonding layer and the transparent support.

Image transfer sheet and image recording material

An image transfer sheet includes an image-receiving layer, a substrate, and a rear outermost layer containing an alkali metal salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid. The image-receiving layer, the substrate, and the rear outermost layer are arranged in that order.

Image transfer sheet

An image-forming method includes forming a toner image on the surface of an image carrier, transferring the toner image from the surface of the image carrier onto an image-receiving layer of a belt-shaped intermediate transfer film that is provided on a surface of a base material, superimposing the intermediate transfer film on a surface of a recording medium such that the toner image contacts the surface of the recording medium, fixing the toner image by application of heat and pressure, forming a laminate by pressure-bonding the superimposed intermediate transfer film onto the recording medium by application of heat and pressure, and peeling the base material off the image-receiving layer at the interface therebetween, so that the entire image-forming surface of the recording medium is covered with the image-receiving layer and the image is formed between the recording medium and the image-receiving layer.

Image-forming method and image-forming apparatus

An image transfer sheet for electrophotography comprising a substrate and an image receiving layer provided on at least one side of the substrate, wherein the image receiving layer includes particles having a volume average particle diameter which is greater than a thickness of the image receiving layer, and both surfaces of the image transfer sheet have surface resistivities at 23&#xb0; C. 55% r.h. which are within the range of 1.0&#xd7;10to 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;. Also provided are an image recorded medium and a method for manufacturing the image recorded medium which use the image transfer sheet for electrophotography.

Image transfer sheet for electrophotography, and image recorded medium, as well as method for manufacturing the same

The present invention provides a laminate film for electrophotography including a substrate, a laminate layer formed on one surface of the substrate, and a non-laminate layer formed on the other surface of the substrate, wherein the non-laminate layer contains at least a resin and fine particles and satisfies the inequalities (1) 1.5&#x2266;R&#x2266;5; (2) 0.1&#x2266;t&#x3c;R; and (3) 7/R&#x2266;n, wherein R represents a volume average particle diameter (&#x3bc;m) of the fine particles; t represents a thickness (&#x3bc;m) of the non-laminate layer; and n represents the number of the fine particles contained in the non-laminate layer per 10,000 square &#x3bc;m in the substrate plane direction (particles/(100 &#x3bc;m)).

Laminate film for electrophotography, information recording medium using the same, and method for producing the information recording medium

A transfer member of an image forming material for electrophotography, the transfer member including a substrate and an image receiving layer disposed on at least one surface of the substrate. The image receiving layer includes at least a releasing material and has a surface resistivity of 1.0&#xd7;10to 3.2&#xd7;10&#x3a9;/&#x25a1; at 23&#xb0; C. and 55% RH.

Transfer member of image forming material for electrophotography and member having image recorded thereon using the same

An image transfer sheet for electrophotography comprising a substrate and at least one layer including an image receiving layer on one side surface of the substrate, wherein at least one layer of the layers is a curable resin-containing layer which is a layer separable from the substrate or a layer disposed between the curable resin-containing layer and the substrate on the one side surface. Also provided are a method for manufacturing the image recorded medium which use the image transfer sheet for electrophotography and an image recorded medium.

Image transfer sheet for electrophotography, method for manufacturing image recorded medium using the same, and image recorded medium

A sheet for forming process including a base material and at least one functional layer provided on a surface of the base material, wherein the functional layer has, at the outermost surface thereof, a surface resistivity of 1.0&#xd7;10to 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;/&#x25a1;, and a surface of the base material, on which surface the functional layer is provided, contains at least one selected from polycarbonate resins and polyarylate resins; a method for manufacturing the sheet for forming process, an image forming method, a method for manufacturing a forming processed product using the sheet for forming process, and the forming processed product.

Sheet for forming process and method for manufacturing the same, image forming method, method for manufacturing forming processed product and the forming processed product

The present invention provides an electrophotographic lamination film which can be easily laminated by using the film as it is without significantly modifying a conventional electrophotographic device, can be printed with letters of high resolution directly on a surface of the film capable of softening at relatively low temperatures, and can form an image of high quality having sufficient heat resistance and light resistance with good recognizability even in outdoor use, as well as a method of producing the same and a method of forming an image. In the electrophotographic lamination film, a surface resistance of at least one surface of a substrate thereof is in a range of 10to 10&#x3a9;/&#x25a1;, and a Vicat softening temperature of the substrate is in a range of 70 to 130&#xb0; C.

Electrophotographic lamination film, a method of producing the same, and a method of forming an image

The invention provides an electrophotographic laminated film and a method for producing the electrophotographic laminated film. The electrophotographic laminated film comprises a substrate and at least one of a coating layer and a function control means provided on a surface of the substrate. The uppermost layer of the coating layer has a surface resistance in a range of 1.0&#xd7;10to 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;/&#x25a1;. The surface of the substrate preferably comprises at least one of a polycarbonate resin and a polyallylate resin. At least one of the coating layer and the function control means is preferably formed by providing a coating liquid. Further, a solvent contained in the coating liquid is preferably permits at least one of the coating layer and function control means to be formed while dissolving the surface of the substrate.

Laminated film for electrophotography and method for producing same, and image forming method

An information recording medium including at least one electrophotographic laminate film in which a surface resistance of at least one surface is in a range of 10to 10&#x3a9;/&#x25a1;, and on which a toner image corresponding to information is formed; and an opaque core base material laminated on the surface of the electrophotographic laminate film, on which surface the toner image is formed.

Information recording medium and method of producing the same

An image stripping apparatus includes: a stripping roller which strips an image forming material from an image recording medium by contacting the image forming material on the image recording medium; a cleaning roller for removing, from the stripping roller, the image forming material which has been transferred to the stripping roller; and a cleaning blade stripping the image forming material from the cleaning roller. The stripping roller has a surface layer made of a material having affinity and releasability with respect to the image forming material and the image recording medium. Thus, the stripping roller exhibits peelability required for stripping of the image forming material from the image recording medium and releasability required for removal of a transferred image forming material from the stripping roller.

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Minami-ashigara, Japan

Tomoo Kobayashi