Sony Corporation

Yuichirou Ikemoto

Akira Shirakura

Hiroshi Tokunaga

Yuji Yakura

Norikazu Iwasaki

Koichi Kawasumi

Hideki Matsuzaka

Takashi Mori

Hisashi Andoh

An electrostatic latent image is formed by the Carlson process, etc. on a base (photosensitive body) to develop the electrostatic latent image by a solidification developer in which coloring agent particles are dispersed into a dispersion medium in a solid state at an ordinary temperature and adapted to reversibly repeat fusion by heating at about 30.degree. C. at a temperature above a melting point and solidification by cooling, thus to form a developer picture. Thereafter, the base and a transferred body are caused to be subjected to pressure-contact and heating process to fuse the dispersion medium at a pressure-contact and heating temperature more than the melting point of the dispersion medium to subsequently cool the dispersion medium down to a temperature less than the melting point to peel the transferred body to transfer the developer picture onto the transferred body. Alternatively, the dispersion medium is softened at a pressure-contact and heating temperature set so that this temperature falls within a range where it is not above the melting point to subsequently peel the transferred body to transfer the developer picture onto the transferred body. On the surface of a recording paper, a resin layer compatible with a dispersion medium of a developer may be formed.

Picture recording method using a dispersant having coloring agent

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuichirou Ikemoto