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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1998
Shigeru Mano, Hino, JP;
Hiroshi Watanabe, Hino, JP;
Kaori Fukumuro, Hino, JP;
Yorihiro Yamaya, Hino, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an image forming method in that an image-receiving layer of an image-receiving element is in contact with an ink sheet comprising a thermally transferable dye, and the dye is transferred to the image-receiving layer in accordance with imagewise-heating, the image-receiving layer comprises a metal ion-containing compound and the ink sheet has repeatedly a region comprising both the metal ion-containing compound and a chelatable dye and a region comprising the metal ion-containing compound and no thermally transferable dye and the dye-containing region of the ink sheet is subjected to imagewise-heating, and to the image part formed on the image-receiving layer, the metal ion-containing compound is transferred by heating the region comprising the compound containing the metal ion. (2) In the above-mentioned (1), the image-receiving layer comprises substantially no metal ion-containing compound.