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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Adachi, Numazli, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C 1/706 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C 1/706 ;
Abstract
A thermosensitive stencil sheet including at least a thermoplastic resin film and an electromagnetic wave absorbing layer which includes an electromagnetic wave absorbing agent and a resin. The thermosensitive stencil sheet may also include a porous substrate and/or a protective layer. A thermal stencil printing method in which the thermosensitive stencil sheet is imagewise perforated with an electromagnetic wave to prepare a stencil plate and then the resultant stencil plate is subjected to a printing operation to form images is also provided. A multi-color thermal stencil printing method using the thermosensitive stencil sheet is also provided.