EP0420036B1 - Utilisation de colorants azoiques pour l'impression par transfert thermique - Google Patents

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EP0420036B1
EP0420036B1 EP90118082A EP90118082A EP0420036B1 EP 0420036 B1 EP0420036 B1 EP 0420036B1 EP 90118082 A EP90118082 A EP 90118082A EP 90118082 A EP90118082 A EP 90118082A EP 0420036 B1 EP0420036 B1 EP 0420036B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41MPRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/26Thermography ; Marking by high energetic means, e.g. laser otherwise than by burning, and characterised by the material used
    • B41M5/382Contact thermal transfer or sublimation processes
    • B41M5/385Contact thermal transfer or sublimation processes characterised by the transferable dyes or pigments
    • B41M5/388Azo dyes
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S428/913Material designed to be responsive to temperature, light, moisture
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    • Y10STECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S428/00Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10S428/914Transfer or decalcomania
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T428/31504Composite [nonstructural laminate]
    • Y10T428/31507Of polycarbonate
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
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    • Y10T428/31504Composite [nonstructural laminate]
    • Y10T428/31786Of polyester [e.g., alkyd, etc.]

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  • thermal transfer printing In addition to the laser and IR lamp, a thermal head is used as the heat source, with which short heating pulses lasting a fraction of a second can be emitted.
  • a transfer sheet which contains the dye to be transferred together with one or more binders, a carrier material and possibly other auxiliaries such as release agents or crystallization-inhibiting substances is heated from the rear by the thermal head.
  • the dye diffuses from the transfer sheet into the surface coating of the substrate, e.g. into the plastic layer of a coated paper.
  • the main advantage of this method is that the amount of ink transferred and thus the color gradation can be controlled in a targeted manner via the energy to be delivered to the thermal head.
  • the azo dyes I themselves are known per se or can be obtained by known methods (EP-B-111 236).
  • the invention was therefore based on the object of finding suitable yellow dyes for thermal transfer printing which come closer to the required property profile than the previously known dyes.
  • a method for transferring azo dyes by diffusion from a support onto a plastic-coated substrate using a thermal head was found, which is characterized in that a support is used for this purpose, on which one or more of the azo dyes I defined at the outset are located.
  • R 1 or R 2 are the alkyl groups methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl, tert-butyl, pentyl, isopentyl, sec-pentyl, tert-pentyl, hexyl, 2-methylpentyl, heptyl, octyl , 2-ethylhexyl or the isomer mixture isooctyl, nonyl or decyl or their isomer mixtures isononyl and isodecyl and undecyl or dodecyl.
  • tridecyl or its isomer mixture isotridecyl, tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, octadecyl, nonadecyl or eicosyl are also suitable, for example
  • the alkyl groups can also be substituted by phenyl;
  • Ph phenyl
  • Examples of further preferred groups II are: - (CH2) 3-O-CH3, - (CH2) 3-O-C2H5, - (CH2) 3-O-C3H7, - (CH2) 3-O-C4H9, - (CH2) 3-O-Ph, -CH2-CH (CH3) -O-CH3, -CH2-CH (CH3) -O-C2H5, -CH2-CH (CH3) -O-C3H7, -CH2-CH (CH3) -O-C4H9, -CH2-CH (CH3) -O-Ph, - (CH2) 4-O-CH3, - (CH2) 4-O-C2H5, - (CH2) 4-O-C4H9, - (CH2) 4-O-Ph, - (CH2) 4-O-CH2-Ph-2-O-C2H5, - (CH2) 4-O-C6H10-2-C2H5, - (CH2) 4-O] 2-C2H5, - [(CH2) 2-CH (CH3)
  • alkanoyloxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonyloxyalkyl or alkoxycarbonylalkyl groups suitable as R1 or R2 are: - (CH2) 2-O-CO-CH3, - (CH2) 3-O-CO- (CH2) 7-CH3, - (CH2) 2-O-CO- (CH2) 3-Ph-2-O-CH3, -CH (CH2-Ph-3-CH3) -O-CO-C4H9 or - (CH2) 4-O-CO- (CH2) 4-CH (C2H5) -OH; - (CH2) 2-O-CO-O-CH3, - (CH2) 3-O-CO-O- (CH2) 7-CH3, -CH (C2H5) -CH2-O-CO-O-C4H9, - (CH2) 4-O-CO-O- (CH2) 2-CH (CH3) -O-Ph-3-CH3 or - (CH2) 5-O-CO-O- (CH2) 5-CN; - (CH2) 2-CO-O-CH
  • Phenyl or cyclohexyl radicals which may be present as R1 or R2 are, for example, the following: -Ph, -Ph-3-CH3, -Ph-4- (CH2) 10-CH3, -Ph-3- (CH2) 5-CH (CH3) -CH3, -PH-4-O-C4H9, -Ph-4- (CH2) 5-CH (C2H5) -CH3, -Ph-4-O-CH2-Ph or -Ph-4-Cl; -C6H10-4-CH3, -C6H10-4-C10H21, -C6H10-3-O-C4H9, -C6H10-3-O- (CH2) 4-CH (C2H5) -CH3 or -C6H10-4-Cl.
  • the substituents X and Y are preferably hydrogen and nitro, and also chlorine and bromine. Further substituents X are methyl, methyloxy, ethyloxy, propyloxy, butyloxy, phenoxy, tolyloxy or dimethylphenyloxy.
  • the cyano group is particularly preferred as the substituent Z, and hydrogen, acetyl and carbamoyl are also suitable.
  • the dyes I to be used according to the invention are distinguished from the yellow dyes previously used for thermal transfer printing by the following properties: easier thermal transferability in spite of the relatively high molecular weight, improved migration properties in the recording medium at room temperature, significantly higher lightfastness, better resistance to moisture and chemicals, better solubility in the manufacture of the printing ink, higher color strength and easier technical accessibility.
  • binders are often recommended, e.g. those made of ethyl cellulose and polyvinyl butyrate in a weight ratio of 2: 1.
  • Inert carrier materials are, for example, tissue paper, blotting paper or glassine paper and films made of heat-resistant plastics such as polyesters, polyamides or polyimides, these films also being able to be metal-coated.
  • the inert carrier can additionally be coated with a lubricant on the side facing the thermal head in order to prevent the thermal head from sticking to the carrier material.
  • Suitable lubricants are, for example, silicones or polyurethanes, as described in EP-A-216 483.
  • the substrate to be printed for example paper, must in turn be coated with a binder which absorbs the dye during the printing process.
  • a binder which absorbs the dye during the printing process.
  • Polymeric materials whose glass transition temperature T g is between 50 and 100 ° C., for example polycarbonates and polyester, are preferably used for this purpose. Further details can be found in EP-A-227 094, EP-A-133 012, EP-A-133 011, JP-A-199 997/1986 or JP-A 283 595/1986.
  • transfer sheets were made in a conventional manner from 8 ⁇ m thick polyester film, which was provided with an approximately 5 ⁇ m thick transfer layer made of a binder B, each of which contained 0.25 g of azo dye I.
  • the weight ratio of binder to dye was 4: 1 in each case.
  • the coated side of the encoder and slave was placed on top of one another, wrapped with aluminum foil and heated to a temperature between 70 and 80 ° C. for two minutes between two heating plates. With similar samples, this process was repeated three times at a higher temperature between 80 and 120 ° C.
  • the amount of dye diffused into the plastic layer of the receiver is proportional to the optical density, which was determined as absorbance A photometrically after the respective heating to the temperatures given above.
  • the azo dyes I used are divided into groups in the following tables; the variable P indicates the position of the oxadiazole residue on the phenyl nucleus of the diazo component in relation to the azo group (o: ortho, m: meta, p: para).
  • binder B used in each case.
  • EC ethyl cellulose
  • PVB polyvinyl butyrate

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  1. Utilisation, pour l'impression par transfert thermique, de colorants azoïques de formule générale I
    Figure imgb0014
    dans laquelle les substituants ont les significations suivantes:
    R¹, R²   atomes d'hydrogène;
    groupements alkyle, alcoxyalkyle, alcanoyloxyalkyle, alcoxycarbonyloxyalkyle, alcoxycarbonylalkyle, halogénoalkyle, hydroxyalkyle ou cyanoalkyle, qui peuvent être substitués chacun par des restes phényle, (alkyl en C₁-C₄)phényle, (alcoxy en C₁-C₄)phényle, halogénophényle, benzyloxy, (alkyl en C₁-C₄)benzyloxy, (alcoxy en C₁-C₄)benzyloxy, halogénobenzyloxy, halogéno, hydroxy ou cyano;
    groupements phényle ou cyclohexyle, qui peuvent être substitués par des restes alkyle en C₁-C₁₅, alcoxy en C₁-C₁₅, halogéno ou benzyloxy;
    un reste de formule générale II



            [-W-O]n-R⁴   II



    dans laquelle
    W   représente des groupements alkylène en C₂-C₆ identiques ou différents,
    n   est un nombre de 1 à 6 et
    R⁴   est mis pour un groupement alkyle en C₁-C₄ ou phényle, qui peut être substitué par un radical alkyle en C₁-C₄ ou alcoxy en C₁-C₄;
    R³   atome d'hydrogène, groupement amino, hydroxy ou alkyle;
    X   atome d'hydrogène, de chlore, de brome, groupement nitro, méthyle, phénoxy, tolyloxy, diméthylphényloxy, chlorophénoxy ou alcoxy en C₁-C₄;
    Y   atome d'hydrogène, de chlore ou de brome; et
    Z   atome d'hydrogène, groupement acétyle, carbamoyle ou cyano.
  2. Procédé de transfert de colorants azoïques par diffusion entre un support et un substrat enduit d'une couche de matière plastique à l'aide d'une tête thermique, caractérisé en ce qu'on utilise à cet effet un support sur lequel se trouvent un ou plusieurs colorants azoïques de formule I selon la revendication 1.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'on utilise à cette fin un colorant azoïque de formule Ia
    Figure imgb0015
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'on utilise à cette fin un colorant azoïque de formule Ib
    Figure imgb0016
    dans laquelle les variables ont les significations suivantes:
    R1', R2'   atomes d'hydrogène;
    groupements alkyle, alcoxyalkyle, alcanoyloxy ou alcoxycarbonylalkyle, qui peuvent contenir chacun jusqu'à 15 atomes de carbone et peuvent être substitués par des restes phényle, (alkyl en C₁-C₄)phényle, (alcoxy en C₁-C₄)phényle, hydroxy ou cyano;
    un reste de formule générale III



            [-(CH₂)₃-O]p-⁅-(CH₂)₂-O]q-R4'



    dans laquelle p est mis pour 0 ou 1 et q pour un nombre de 1 à 4, et R4' représente un groupement alkyle en C₁-C₄ ou phényle.
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