Yellow dye-donor element used in thermal transfer and thermal transfer

Abstract

A yellow dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer and having good characteristics for ink formation, and a thermal transfer sheet made using the yellow dye-element, having adequate sublimatability or vaporizability, good coloring, with a high printing density on receiving papers, and high storage stability and light stability of printing image, and employable as a yellow color among the three primary colors are provided. The above yellow color-element comprises a yellow dye dispersed or dissolved in a polymeric binder, which is represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl group of C.sub.1 -C.sub.12, an allyl group or a crotyl group; X is hydrogen, halogen or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 lower alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 lower alkoxy group; Y is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, phenyl, tolyl, or phenoxy group; and A is --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O--, or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --.