EP0752616A1 - Neuer Tönungsmittel für thermographische und photothermographische Materialien und Prozesse - Google Patents

Neuer Tönungsmittel für thermographische und photothermographische Materialien und Prozesse Download PDF

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EP0752616A1
EP0752616A1 EP96201685A EP96201685A EP0752616A1 EP 0752616 A1 EP0752616 A1 EP 0752616A1 EP 96201685 A EP96201685 A EP 96201685A EP 96201685 A EP96201685 A EP 96201685A EP 0752616 A1 EP0752616 A1 EP 0752616A1
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  • the present invention relates to toning agents for thermographic and photothermographic imaging processes.
  • Thermal imaging or thermography is a recording process wherein images are generated by the use of thermal energy.
  • thermography three approaches are known:
  • Thermographic materials of type 1 can be rendered photothermographic by incorporating a photosensitive agent which after exposure to visible or IR light is capable of catalyzing or participating in a thermographic process bringing about changes in colour or optical density.
  • Thermal dye transfer printing is a recording method wherein a dye-donor element is used that is provided with a dye layer wherefrom dyed portions or incorporated dyes are transferred onto a contacting receiver element by the application of heat in a pattern normally controlled by electronic information signals.
  • Thermography is concerned with materials which are substantially light-insensitive, but are sensitive to heat or thermographic.
  • thermographic recording materials are of the chemical type. On heating to a certain conversion temperature, an irreversible chemical reaction takes place and a coloured image is produced.
  • a typical heat-sensitive copy paper includes in the heat-sensitive layer a thermoplastic binder, e.g ethyl cellulose, a water-insoluble silver salt, e.g. silver stearate and an appropriate organic reductor, of which 4-methoxy-1-hydroxy-dihydronaphthalene is a representative.
  • a thermoplastic binder e.g ethyl cellulose
  • a water-insoluble silver salt e.g. silver stearate
  • an appropriate organic reductor of which 4-methoxy-1-hydroxy-dihydronaphthalene is a representative.
  • a heterocyclic organic toning agent such as phthalazinone is added to the composition of the heat-sensitive layer.
  • Thermo-sensitive copying paper is used in "front-printing” or “back-printing” using infra-red radiation absorbed and transformed into heat in contacting infra-red light absorbing image areas of an original as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of US-P 3,074,809.
  • thermographic process is provided using (i) a reductor donor element comprising on a support a donor layer containing a binder and a thermotransferable reducing agent capable of reducing a silver source to metallic silver upon heating and (ii) a receiving element comprising on a support a receiving layer comprising a silver source capable of being reduced by means of heat in the presence of a reducing agent, said thermographic process comprising the steps of
  • a donor element for use in thermal transfer printing wherein said donor element comprises on a support (a) a donor layer comprising a binder, a thermotransferable reducing agent capable of reducing a silver source to metallic silver upon heating and a thermotransferable toning agent and (b) a heat-resistant layer provided on the side of the support opposite to the side having said donor layer.
  • thermal printing image signals are converted into electric pulses and then through a driver circuit selectively transferred to a thermal printhead.
  • the thermal printhead consists of microscopic heat resistor elements, which convert the electrical energy into heat via Joule effect.
  • the electric pulses thus converted into thermal signals manifest themselves as heat transferred to the surface of the thermal paper wherein the chemical reaction resulting in colour development takes place.
  • the operating temperature of common thermal printheads is in the range of 300 to 400°C and the heating time per picture element (pixel) may be less than 1.0ms, the pressure contact of the thermal printhead with the recording material being e.g. 200-500g/cm 2 to ensure a good transfer of heat.
  • Thermographic materials can also be image-wise or pattern-wise heated by means of a modulated laser beam.
  • image-wise modulated infra-red laser light is absorbed in the thermographic material by infra-red light absorbing substance converting infra-red radiation into the heat necessary for the imaging reaction.
  • the thermographic material contains light-into-heat converting substance, e.g. infrared radiation absorbing substances.
  • the image signals for modulating the laser beam or current in the micro-resistors of a thermal printhead are obtained directly e.g. from opto-electronic scanning devices or from an intermediary storage means, e.g. magnetic disc or tape or optical disc storage medium, optionally linked to a digital image work station wherein the image information can be processed to satisfy particular needs.
  • an intermediary storage means e.g. magnetic disc or tape or optical disc storage medium
  • an electro(stato)graphic method comprising the steps of image-wise applying toner particles to a final non-photoconductive substrate and fixing said toner particles on said final substrate, characterized in that
  • photothermographic materials are the so-called “Dry Silver” photographic materials of the 3M Company, which are reviewed by D.A. Morgan in “Handbook of Imaging Science”, edited by A.R. Diamond, page 43, published by Marcel Dekker in 1991.
  • US-P 3,152,904 discloses an image reproduction sheet which comprises a radiation-sensitive heavy metal salt which can be reduced to free metal by a radiation wave length between an X-ray wave length and a five microns wave length and being distributed substantially uniformly laterally over said sheet, and as the image forming component an oxidation-reduction reaction combination which is substantially latent under ambient conditions and which can be initiated into reaction by said free metal to produce a visible change in colour comprising an organic silver salt containing carbon atoms and different from said heavy metal salt as an oxidizing agent and in addition an organic reducing agent containing carbon atoms, said radiation-sensitive heavy metal salt being present in an amount between about 50 and about 1000 parts per million of said oxidation-reduction reaction combination.
  • US-P 3,951,660 discloses a photographic radiation sensitive recording material having therein a radiation sensitive composition and at least one layer containing dispersed in a binding agent a substantially non-light sensitive silver salt, a reducing agent for the non-light sensitive silver salt, and a toner compound, the improvement which comprises the toner being a heterocyclic toner compound of the following formula: in which X represents O or N-R 5 ; R 1 , R 2 , R 3 or R 4 represent hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, hydroxy, dialkylamino or halogen, in addition to which R 1 and R 2 or R 2 and R 3 or R 3 and R 4 can represent the ring members required to complete an anellated aromatic ring, and R 5 represents alkyl.
  • US-P 3,885,967 discloses a photosensitive material for a thermally developable lightsensitive element which comprises:
  • Thermographic and photothermographic materials with prior art toning agents exhibit poor storage properties, as is the case with e.g. phthalazinone, and/or an image colour which has an insufficiently neutral tone for black and white images, as is the case with e.g. succinimide, phthalimide, phthalic acid and phthalazine.
  • thermographic materials as disclosed in US-P 3,951,660, represented an improvement in storage properties and in the neutrality of the image tone, whether substituted, as disclosed in US-P 3,885,967 and US-P 3,951,660, or unsubstituted, as disclosed in US-P 3,951,660.
  • Such toning agents are insufficiently soluble in ecologically acceptable coating solvents and thermographic materials containing these toning agents exhibit a unacceptably strong deterioration in image colour and an unacceptable increase in image background (fog) upon storage.
  • toning agents diffuse through the thermographic materials to the thermal head resulting in cloudiness in the imaging material and image degradation due to thermal head contamination.
  • thermographic material in which the imaging characteristics obtainable are not unacceptibly degraded during storage of a thermographic material.
  • thermographic material in which diffusion of toning agent through said imaging material to a thermal head is prevented.
  • thermographic process utilizing said materials.
  • thermographic process wherein said imaging process is based upon reductor transfer printing.
  • thermographic process wherein said imaging process utilizes the imagewise exposure of said thermographic material containing a light-sensitive species capable upon exposure of forming a species capable of catalyzing said thermographic process.
  • the present invention provides a toning agent for use in said materials, either on its own or in combination with at least one other toning agent, with improved compatibility with hydrophobic media as shown by its increased solubility in organic coating solvents, strongly reduced crystallization upon drying and subsequent storage and reduced diffusion through the material, which properties enabling an improved imaging performance to be achieved and in particular a more neutral image tone after storage.
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  • a material is also provided in which said material comprises in addition to said toning agent according to formula (I) the toning agent benzo[e][1,3]oxazine-2,4-dione.
  • thermographic material in which said material consists of a reductor donor element, comprising on a support a donor layer containing a binder and a thermotransferable reductor capable of reducing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt to metal upon heating, and a receiving element, comprising on a support a receiving layer containing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt capable of being reduced by means of heat in the presence of a thermo-transferable reductor.
  • a reductor donor element comprising on a support a donor layer containing a binder and a thermotransferable reductor capable of reducing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt to metal upon heating
  • a receiving element comprising on a support a receiving layer containing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt capable of being reduced by means of heat in the presence of a thermo-transferable reductor.
  • thermographic material wherein said material consists of a single element comprising on a substrate a film-forming polymeric binder in which is uniformly distributed (i) a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt, said heavy metal salt being in working relationship with (ii) an organic reductor therefor.
  • thermographic material is also provided, wherein said material is photothermographic and contains in addition a photosensitive agent, or component capable of forming a photosensitive agent with said substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt, capable after exposure to light of catalyzing the thermal reduction of the heavy metal ions of said substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt to metal with said reductor.
  • said photosensitive agent is a silver halide and said component capable of forming a photosensitive agent is a component capable of forming a silver halide.
  • thermographic material in which said material, containing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt and an organic reductor therefor, consists of an element comprising liquid droplets containing a light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt and/or an organic reductor therefor and a receiving element comprising on a substrate a film-forming polymeric binder in which is uniformly distributed a light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt and/or an organic reductor therefor.
  • thermographic material in which said material, containing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt and an organic reductor therefor, consists of an element comprising solid toner particles containing a light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt and/or an organic reductor therefor and a receiving element comprising on a substrate a film-forming polymeric binder in which is uniformly distributed a light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt and/or an organic reductor therefor.
  • the substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt used in said thermographic and photothermographic materials is a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt.
  • the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt used in said thermographic and photothermographic materials is a substantially light-insensitive fatty acid silver salt e.g. silver behenate.
  • thermographic process wherein said material consists of a reductor donor element, comprising on a support a donor layer containing a binder and a thermotransferable reductor capable of reducing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt to metal upon heating, and a receiving element, comprising on a support a receiving layer containing a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt capable of being reduced by means of heat in the presence of a thermotransferable reductor; comprising the steps of: (i) bringing said reductor donor element into face to face relationship with said receiving element; (ii) image-wise heating a thus obtained assemblage, thereby causing image-wise transfer of an amount of said thermotransferable reductor to said receiving element in accordance with the amount of heat supplied by said thermal head; and (iii) separating said donor element from said receiving element.
  • a reductor donor element comprising on a support a donor layer containing a binder and a thermotransferable reductor capable of reducing a substantially light
  • thermographic process wherein said material consists of a single element comprising on a substrate a film-forming polymeric binder in which is uniformly distributed (i) a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt, said heavy metal salt being in thermal working relationship with (ii) an organic reductor therefor.
  • thermographic process is also provided, wherein said thermographic process is carried out by means of a thermal head containing a plurality of image-wise electrically energized heating elements.
  • thermographic process wherein said material is photothermographic and comprises on a substrate uniformly distributed in a film-forming polymeric binder a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt, a reductor in thermal working relationship therewith and a photosensitive agent, or component capable of forming a photosensitive agent with said substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt, which after image-wise exposure to light is converted into said image-wise provided element which renders said thermographic material thermally developable by catalyzing the reduction of the heavy metal ions of said organic heavy metal salt to metal with said reductor upon subsequent uniform heating.
  • thermographic process wherein said material consists of said image-wise provided element, which contains an ingredient necessary for thermal development, and a receiving element, said material comprising in addition to said toning agent according to formula (I) a substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt and a reductor therefor; characterized in that said image-wise provided element is applied as liquid droplets or solid particles.
  • 1,3-benzoxazine-2,4-dione compounds according to the following formulae are particularly suitable as toning agents according to the present invention:
  • 1,336g (13.2moles) of triethylamine were added dropwise over 45min to a stirred suspension of 918.2g (6moles) of 2,4-dihydroxy-benzamide and 1,432g (13.2moles) of ethylchloroformate in 4.5L of ethyl acetate at 50°C.
  • the reaction mixture was then cooled to room temperature, stirred for 1 hour at room temperature, refluxed for 9 hours and finally cooled to 0°C.
  • Substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salts particularly suited for use in a thermographic material according to the present invention are organic silver and iron salts.
  • Preferred organic silver salts according to the present invention are silver salts of aliphatic carboxylic acids known as fatty acids, wherein the aliphatic carbon chain has preferably at least 12 C-atoms, e.g.
  • silver laurate, silver palmitate, silver stearate, silver hydroxystearate, silver oleate and silver behenate which silver salts are also called “silver soaps"; silver dodecyl sulphonate described in US-P 4,504,575; and silver di-(2-ethylhexyl)-sulfosuccinate described in EP-A 227 141.
  • Silver salts of modified aliphatic carboxylic acids with thioether group as described e.g. in GB-P 1,111,492 and other organic silver salts as described in GB-P 1,439,478, e.g. silver benzoate and silver phthalazinone may be used likewise to produce a thermally developable silver image. Further are mentioned silver imidazolates and the substantially light-insensitive inorganic or organic silver salt complexes described in US-P 4,260,677.
  • the silver image density depends on the coverage of the above defined reductor(s) and organic silver salt(s) and has to be preferably such that, on heating above 100 °C, an optical density of at least 1.5 can be obtained.
  • Useful substantially light-insensitive organic iron salts are e.g. iron salts of an organic acid, e.g. the iron salts described in published European patent application 0 520 404, more particularly iron o-benzoylbenzoate.
  • Suitable organic reductors for the reduction of said substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salts are organic compounds containing at least one active hydrogen atom linked to O, N or C, such as is the case with, aromatic di- and tri-hydroxy compounds; aminophenols; METOL (tradename); p-phenylenediamines; alkoxynaphthols, e.g. 4-methoxy-1-naphthol described in US-P 3,094,41; pyrazolidin-3-one type reductors, e.g.
  • PHENIDONE (tradename); pyrazolin-5-ones; indan-1,3-dione derivatives; hydroxytetrone acids; hydroxytetronimides; hydroxylamine derivatives such as for example described in US-P 4,082,901; hydrazine derivatives; and reductones e.g. ascorbic acid; see also US-P 3,074,809, 3,080,254, 3,094,417 and 3,887,378.
  • aromatic di- and tri-hydroxy compounds having at least two hydroxy groups in ortho- or para-position on the same aromatic nucleus
  • aromatic nucleus e.g. benzene nucleus, hydroquinone and substituted hydroquinones, catechol, pyrogallol, gallic acid and gallic acid esters
  • polyhydroxy spiro-bis-indane compounds especially these corresponding to the following general formula: wherein :
  • polyhydroxy-spiro-bis-indane compounds described in US-P 3,440,049 as photographic tanning agent are mentioned, more especially 3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl-5,6,5',6'-tetrahydroxy-1,1'-spiro-bis-indane (reductor Z in invention examples and comparative examples) and 3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl-4,6,7,4',6',7'-hexahydroxy-1,1'-spiro-bis-indane.
  • Indane is also known under the name hydrindene.
  • catechol-type reductors by which is meant reductors containing at least one benzene nucleus with two hydroxy groups (-OH) in ortho-position, are preferred, e.g. catechol, 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) propionic acid, 1,2-dihydroxybenzoic acid, gallic acid and esters e.g. methyl gallate, ethyl gallate, propyl gallate, tannic acid, and 3,4-dihydroxy-benzoic acid esters.
  • catechol-type reductors are benzene compounds in which the benzene nucleus is substituted by no more than two hydroxy groups which are present in 3,4-position on said nucleus and have in the 1-position of said nucleus a substituent linked to said nucleus by means of a carbonyl group.
  • the reductor must be present in such a way that it is able to diffuse to said substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt particles so that reduction of said organic heavy metal salt can take place.
  • the metal image density depends upon the coverage of reductor and organic heavy metal salt and has preferably to be such that upon heating an optical density of at least 1.5 can be obtained. Preferably at least 0.10 moles of reductor per mole of organic heavy metal salt is used.
  • auxiliary reductors are e.g. sterically hindered phenols, that on heating become reactive partners in the reduction of the substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt such as silver behenate, such as described in US-P 4,001,026; or are bisphenols, e.g. of the type described in US-P 3,547,648.
  • the auxiliary reductors may be present in the imaging layer or in a polymeric binder layer in thermal working relationship thereto.
  • Preferred auxiliary reductors are sulfonamidophenols corresponding to the following general formula : Aryl-SO 2 -NH-Arylene-OH in which :
  • auxiliary reductors that may be used in conjunction with the above mentioned primary reductors are organic reducing metal salts, e.g. stannous stearate described in US-P 3,460,946 and 3,547,648.
  • Suitable photosensitive agents are heavy metal organic or inorganic salts, preferably of a Group 1b metal of the Periodic Table, with metal diazo-sulfonate salts; salts of a hydrogen halide, such as chloride, bromide or iodide; or salts of nitric or sulfinic acid being preferred.
  • Suitable metals include silver, copper, chromium, cobalt, platinum and gold; with silver being preferred. Mixtures of the above may also be used.
  • a simple test may be used to determine whether or not a particular metal salt can photogenerate a catalyst (free metal) for the reducing of the silver oxidizing agent with the reductor.
  • a freshly prepared sample of the metal salt in question (50mg) is intimately admixed with an aqueous or alcoholic suspension or dispersion (5ml) of silver behenate (0.5g).
  • This dispersion is coated on filter paper and dried.
  • the coated paper is then overcoated with aqueous or alcoholic solution of a 0.5% aqueous or alcoholic solution (5ml) of a reducing agent, preferably hydroquinone and again dried. No immediate reaction should take place in the absence of light.
  • This coated filter paper is then exposed to light (about 5-10s with RS sun lamps 6 inches away) and heated to about 90-100°C for 5s. If the exposed paper darkens more rapidly than a similar paper sample under the same conditions without the metal salt, the salt is suitable as a photosensitive generator of a catalyst.
  • Said photosensitive agent may be spectrally sensitized in the visible spectrum and in the IR-range of the spectrum with various known dyes including cyanine, merocyanine, styryl, hemicyanine, oxonol, hemioxonol and xanthene dyes.
  • Useful cyanine dyes include those having a basic nucleus, such as a thiazoline nucleus, an oxazoline nucleus, a pyrroline nucleus, a pyridine nucleus, an oxazole nucleus, a thiazole nucleus, a selenazole nucleus and an imidazole nucleus.
  • Useful merocyanine dyes which are preferred include those having not only the above described basic nuclei but also acid nuclei, such as a thiohydantoin nucleus, a rhodanine nucleus, an oxazolidinedione nucleus, a thiazolidinedione nucleus, a barbituric acid nucleus, a thiazolinone nucleus, a malononitrile nucleus and a pyrazolone nucleus.
  • acid nuclei such as a thiohydantoin nucleus, a rhodanine nucleus, an oxazolidinedione nucleus, a thiazolidinedione nucleus, a barbituric acid nucleus, a thiazolinone nucleus, a malononitrile nucleus and a pyrazolone nucleus.
  • imino groups or carboxyl groups are particularly effective.
  • Thermographic materials rendered photosensitive by the presence of a photosensitive agent may contain anti-halation or acutance dyes which absorbs light which has passed through the photosensitive layer, thereby preventing its reflection.
  • the film-forming binder of the recording layer containing the substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt may be all kinds of natural, modified natural or synthetic resins or mixtures of such resins, wherein the organic heavy metal salt can be dispersed homogeneously: e.g. cellulose derivatives such as ethylcellulose, cellulose esters, e.g.
  • cellulose nitrate carboxymethylcellulose, starch ethers, galactomannan
  • polymers derived from ⁇ , ⁇ -ethylenically unsaturated compounds such as polyvinyl chloride, after-chlorinated polyvinyl chloride, copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride, copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate, polyvinyl acetate and partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetals that are made from polyvinyl alcohol as starting material in which only a part of the repeating vinyl alcohol units may have reacted with an aldehyde, preferably polyvinyl butyral, copolymers of acrylonitrile and acrylamide, polyacrylic acid esters, polymethacrylic acid esters, polystyrene and polyethylene or mixtures thereof.
  • a particularly suitable polyvinyl butyral containing a minor amount of vinyl alcohol units is marketed under the trade name BUTVAR B79 of Monsanto USA and provides a good adhesion to paper and properly subbed polyester supports.
  • the binder to organic heavy metal salt weight ratio is preferably in the range of 0.2 to 6, and the thickness of the recording layer is preferably in the range of 5 to 50 ⁇ m.
  • binders or mixtures thereof may be used in conjunction with waxes or "heat solvents” also called “thermal solvents” or “thermosolvents” improving the reaction speed of the redox-reaction at elevated temperature.
  • heat solvent in this invention is meant a non-hydrolyzable organic material which is in solid state in the recording layer at temperatures below 50°C but becomes a plasticizer for the recording layer in the heated region and/or liquid solvent for at least one of the redox-reactants, e.g. the reductor for the substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt, at a temperature above 60°C.
  • redox-reactants e.g. the reductor for the substantially light-insensitive organic heavy metal salt
  • hydrophilic or hydrophobic binders can be used, although the use of hydrophobic binders is preferred.
  • Hydrophilic binders which can be used are polyvinylalcohol, gelatine, polyacrylamide and hydrophilic cellulosic binders such as hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose and the like.
  • the hydrophobic binders may be used as a dispersion in e.g. water or as a solution in an organic solvent.
  • Suitable binders for the donor layer are cellulose derivatives, such as ethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate formate, cellulose acetate hydrogen phthalate, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate, cellulose acetate butyrate, cellulose acetate pentanoate cellulose acetate benzoate, cellulose triacetate; vinyl-type resins and derivatives, such as polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyral, copolyvinyl butyral-vinyl acetal-vinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyvinyl acetoacetal, polyacrylamide; polymers and copolymers derivated from acrylates and acrylate derivatives, such as polymethyl methacrylate and styrene-acrylate copolymers; polyester resins; polycarbonates; copoly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile); polysulfones;
  • the binder for the donor layer of the present invention comprises poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) or a mixture of poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) and a toluenesulphonamide condensation product.
  • the binder for the donor layer preferably comprises a copolymer comprising styrene units and acrylonitrile units, preferentially at least 60% by weight of styrene units and at least 25% by weight of acrylonitrile units binder.
  • the binder copolymer may comprise other comonomers than styrene units and acrylonitrile units. Suitable other comonomers are e.g. butadiene, butyl acrylate, and methyl methacrylate.
  • the binder copolymer preferably has a glass transition temperature of at least 50°C.
  • the donor layer generally has a thickness of about 0.2 to 5.0 ⁇ m, preferably 0.4 to 2.0 ⁇ m, and the amount ratio of reducing agent to binder generally ranges from 9:1 to 1:3 by weight, preferably from 3:1 to 1:2 by weight.
  • thermographic material may contain other additives such as free fatty acids, surface-active agents, antistatic agents, e.g. non-ionic antistatic agents including a fluorocarbon group as e.g. in F 3 C(CF 2 ) 6 CONH(CH 2 CH 2 O)-H, silicone oil, e.g. BAYSILONE ⁇ l A (tradename of BAYER AG - GERMANY), ultraviolet light absorbing compounds, white light reflecting and/or ultraviolet radiation reflecting pigments, silica, and/or optical brightening agents.
  • antistatic agents e.g. non-ionic antistatic agents including a fluorocarbon group as e.g. in F 3 C(CF 2 ) 6 CONH(CH 2 CH 2 O)-H
  • silicone oil e.g. BAYSILONE ⁇ l A (tradename of BAYER AG - GERMANY)
  • ultraviolet light absorbing compounds e.g. BAYSILONE ⁇ l A (tradename of BAYER AG - GERMANY)
  • the support for the one or more elements of the thermographic material according to the present invention may be transparent, translucent or opaque and is preferably a thin flexible carrier made e.g. from paper, polyethylene coated paper or transparent resin film, e.g. made of a cellulose ester, e.g. cellulose triacetate, polypropylene, polycarbonate or polyester, e.g. polyethylene terephthalate.
  • the support may be in sheet, ribbon or web form and subbed if needs be to improve the adherence to the thereon coated heat-sensitive recording layer.
  • the support may be made of an opacified resin composition, e.g.
  • opacified polyethylene terephthalate by means of pigments and/or micro-voids and/or is coated with an opaque pigment-binder layer, and may be called synthetic paper, or paperlike film; information about such supports can be found in EP's 194 106 and 234 563 and US-P's 3,944,699, 4,187,113, 4,780,402 and 5,059,579.
  • thermographic material proceeds by Joule effect heating in that selectively energized electrical resistors of a thermal head array are used in contact or close proximity with said recording layer.
  • Suitable thermal printing heads are e.g. a Fujitsu Thermal Head (FTP-040 MCS001), a TDK Thermal Head F415 HH7-1089 and a Rohm Thermal Head KE 2008-F3.
  • the imagewise heating of the recording layer with said thermal printing heads proceeds through a contacting but removable resin sheet or web wherefrom during said heating no transfer of recording material can take place.
  • an electrically resistive ribbon consisting e.g. of a multilayered structure in which a carbon-loaded polycarbonate is coated with a thin aluminium film (ref. Progress in Basic Principles of Imaging Systems - Proceedings of the International Congress of Photographic Science GmbH (Cologne), 1986 ed. by Friedrich Granzer and Erik Moisar - Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn - Braunschweig/Wiesbaden, Figure 6. p. 622).
  • Current is injected into the resistive ribbon by electrically addressing a printing head electrode contacting the carbon-loaded substrate, thus resulting in highly localized heating of the ribbon beneath the energized electrode.
  • the aluminium film makes direct contact with the heat-sensitive recording layer or its protective outermost layer.
  • thermographic material heat is generated directly in the resistive ribbon and only the travelling ribbon gets hot (not the print heads) an inherent advantage in printing speed is obtained.
  • thermal printing head technology the various elements of the thermal printing head get hot and must cool down before the head can print without cross-talk in a next position.
  • the recording material of said thermographic material is image-wise or pattern-wise heated by means of a modulated laser beam.
  • image-wise modulated infra-red laser light is absorbed in the recording material by infra-red light absorbing substances converting infra-red radiation into the heat necessary for the imaging reaction.
  • the recording material contains light-into-heat converting substances, e.g. infrared radiation absorbing substances.
  • the image-wise applied laser light has not necessarily to be infrared light since the power of a laser in the visible light range and even in the ultraviolet region can be thus high that sufficient heat is generated on absorption of the laser light in the thermographic material.
  • laser which may be a gas laser, gas ion laser, e.g. argon ion laser, solid state laser, e.g. Nd:YAG laser, dye laser or semi-conductor laser.
  • thermographic materials containing infra-red absorbing substances capable of converting infra-red radiation into the heat necessary for the imaging reaction anti-halation or acutance dyes may be necessary which absorb light which has passed through the layer containing infra-red absorbing substances, thereby preventing its reflection.
  • thermographic material proceeds by means of pixelwise modulated ultra-sound, using e.g. an ultrasonic pixel printer as described e.g. in US-P 4,908,631.
  • the image signals for modulating the ultrasonic pixel printer, laser beam or electrode current are obtained directly e.g. from opto-electronic scanning devices or from an intermediary storage means, e.g. magnetic disc or tape or optical disc storage medium, optionally linked to a digital work station wherein the image information can be processed to satisfy particular needs.
  • an intermediary storage means e.g. magnetic disc or tape or optical disc storage medium
  • a protective coating is applied thereto.
  • Such coating may have the same composition as an anti-sticking coating or slipping layer which is applied in thermal dye transfer materials at the rear side of the dye donor material.
  • a slipping layer being said outermost layer may comprise a dissolved lubricating material and/or particulate material, e.g. talc particles, optionally protruding from the outermost layer.
  • suitable lubricating materials are a surface active agent, a liquid lubricant, a solid lubricant or mixtures thereof, with or without a polymeric binder.
  • the surface active agents may be any agents known in the art such as carboxylates, sulfonates, phosphates, aliphatic amine salts, aliphatic quaternary ammonium salts, polyoxyethylene alkyl ethers, polyethylene glycol fatty acid esters, fluoroalkyl C 2 -C 20 aliphatic acids.
  • liquid lubricants include silicone oils, synthetic oils, saturated hydrocarbons and glycols.
  • solid lubricants include various higher alcohols such as stearyl alcohol, fatty acids and fatty acid esters.
  • Suitable slipping layer compositions are described in e.g. EP 138483, EP 227090, US-P 4,567,113, 4,572,860 and 4,717,711 and in EP-A 311841.
  • a suitable slipping layer being here an outermost layer at the recording layer side comprises as binder a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer or a styrene-acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer or a mixture hereof and as lubricant in an amount of 0.1 to 10 % by weight of the binder (mixture) a polysiloxane-polyether copolymer or polytetrafluoroethylene or a mixture hereof.
  • Another suitable outermost slipping layer may be obtained by coating a solution of at least one silicon compound and a substance capable of forming during the coating procedure a polymer having an inorganic backbone which is an oxide of a group IVa or IVb element as described in unpublished European patent application 92 200229.0 filed 28th january 1992.
  • thermographic and photothermographic elements and materials of the present invention may proceed by any coating technique e.g. such as described in Modern Coating and Drying Technology, edited by Edward D. Cohen and Edgar B. Gutoff, (1992) VCH Publishers Inc. 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 909 New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.
  • Direct thermal imaging can be used for both the production of transparencies and reflection type prints.
  • the support will be transparent or opaque, e.g. having a white light reflecting aspect.
  • a paper base substrate is present which may contain white reflecting pigments, optionally also applied in an interlayer between the recording material and said paper base substrate. Should a transparent base be used, said base may be colourless or coloured, e.g. has a blue colour.
  • Reductor donor elements were obtained by coating a heat-resistant layer on the non-subbed (back) side of a 5.7 ⁇ m thick polyethylene terephthalate sheet coated on the other side from a butanone solution with a subbing layer consisting of 50mg/m 2 of a copolyester, produced by the copolycondensation of terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, adipic acid, neopentyl glycol, ethylene glycol and glycol.
  • Said subbing layer was then coated with the reductor layer to a wet thickness of 10 ⁇ m with a butanone solution containing the following ingredients in % by weight of the particular ingredient with respect to the total quantity of solids in the dispersion: 10% of a styrene-acrylonitrile-copolymer [Luran 388S (trademark) from BASF]; 0.5% of polymethylsilylsesquioxane [Tospearl 145 (trademark) from Toshiba Silicone]; and the quantity of the particular reductor or reductors used for the particular invention example or comparative example, as given in Table I.
  • Receiving elements for use in combination with said reductor donor elements were prepared by coating a 170 ⁇ m thick polyethylene terephthalate sheet to a wet thickness of 100 ⁇ m with a butanone dispersion containing the following ingredients in % by weight of the particular ingredient with respect to the total quantity of solids in the dispersion: 7.28% of silver behenate; 7.28% of S-LEC BXL (tradename) (a polyvinylbutyral from Sekisui); 0.028% of Baysilone MA (trademark);and the quantities of the particular reductor and the particular toning agent (toner) used for the particular invention example or comparative example, as given in Table I.
  • an abhesive topcoat consisting of 0.5g/m 2 S-LEC BXL (trademark) (from Sekisui) and 0.05g/m 2 Tegoglide (trademark) (from Goldschmidt) was applied from 2-butanone solution.
  • the toning agent (toner) quantities used in the receiving elements of the invention examples and comparative examples corresponded to an approximately constant toning agent: silver behenate molar ratio of 0.21 ⁇ 0.02, so that the toning capability of the different toning agents could be compared under comparable conditions.
  • Printing was performed by contacting the donor layer of the donor element with the receiving layer of the receiving element, followed by heating by means of a thermal head.
  • the thermal head was a thin film thermal head heated at an average printing power of 5W/mm 2 and a line time of 18ms with a resolution of 300 dpi.
  • the pressure applied between the thermal head and the rotating drum carrying the receiving and donor elements was 160g/cm thermal head length. After printing, the receiving element was separated from the donor element.
  • the printed image was a 16-step grey scale between data levels 0 and 255 (8 bit).
  • the data levels of the different steps were chosen equidistant with respect to the input data level in order to obtain the intrinsic sensitometry.
  • All receiving elements were further heated on a hot-plate at 118°C for 10s.
  • the optical maximum densities of the prints were measured through a visual filter with a Macbeth TR924 densitometer in the grey scale step corresponding to a data level of 255.
  • the image fog-level was measured after overall heat treatment on part of the image in which no reductor had been transferred from the donor element to the receiving element.
  • the image colour was evaluated according to the following criteria:
  • the degree of crystallization of toning agent was evaluated after storage at 45°C for 7 days and before printing, using the following criteria:
  • the prior art toning agents exhibit a poor solubility in the coating solvent used (butanone) and a high or moderate tendency to crystallization in the receiving element during storage and furthermore that a moderate tendency to crystallization is never combined with a good image colour (neutral black).
  • the toning agents of the present invention exhibit a high solubility in the coating solvent used (butanone) and a low or moderate tendency to crystallization in the receiving element during storage and furthermore that a moderate tendency to crystallization is combined with a good image colour.
  • a subbed polyethylene terephthalate support having a thickness of 175 ⁇ m was doctor blade-coated from a coating composition containing butanone as a solvent and the following ingredients so as to obtain thereon, after drying for 1 hour at 50°C, a layer containing: silver behenate 5.12 g/m 2 polyvinyl butyral (BUTVAR B79-tradename) 5.12 g/m 2 reductor type Y 1.21 g/m 2 toning agent (see table II for type and quantity)
  • the printer was equipped with a thin film thermal head with a resolution of 300 dpi and was operated with a line time of 7.5ms (the line time being the time needed for printing one line). During said line time the print head received constant power.
  • the average printing power being the total amount of electrical input energy during one line time divided by the line time and by the surface area of the heat-generating resistors was 10.5W/mm 2 being sufficient to obtain maximum optical density in each of said recording materials.
  • the print head was separated from the imaging layer by a thin intermediate material and made contact with the slipping layer of a separatable intermediate 5 ⁇ m thick polyethylene terephthalate ribbon being coated in consecutive order with a subbing layer, heat-resistant layer and said slipping layer (anti-friction layer) giving the ribbon a total thickness of 6 ⁇ m.
  • the optical maximum and minimum densities of the prints given in table II were measured through a visual filter with a Macbeth TD904 densitometer in the grey scale step corresponding to data levels of 255 and 0 respectively.
  • NCV values were determined at optical densities (D) of 1, 2 and 3.
  • the degree of crystallization of toning agent was evaluated after storage at 50°C for 1 hour and before printing, using the following criteria:
  • thermographic materials of the INVENTION EXAMPLES exhibited acceptable colour neutrality after storage for 3 days at 57°C and 34% RH (relative humidity) together with no diffusion of toning agent to the surface of the thermographic material.
  • thermographic materials of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLES 16 and 20 with prior art toning agents, exhibited acceptable colour neutrality after storage for 3 days at 57°C and 34% RH (relative humidity) this was accompanied by diffusion of toning agent to the surface of the thermographic material which was unacceptable.
  • a subbed polyethylene terephthalate support having a thickness of 175 ⁇ m was doctor blade-coated from a coating composition containing butanone as a solvent and the following ingredients so as to obtain thereon, after drying for 1 hour at 50°C, a layer containing: silver behenate 5.12 g/m 2 polyvinyl butyral (BUTVAR B79-tradename) 20 g/m 2 reductor type Z 1.21 g/m 2 pimelic acid 0.41 g/m 2 tetrachlorophthalic anhydride 0.16 g/m 2 toning agent (see table III for type and quantity)
  • the printer was equipped with a thin film thermal head with a resolution of 300 dpi and was operated with a line time of 19ms (the line time being the time needed for printing one line). During said line time the print head received constant power.
  • the average printing power being the total amount of electrical input energy during one line time divided by the line time and by the surface area of the heat-generating resistors was 10.1W/mm 2 being sufficient to obtain maximum optical density in each of said recording materials.
  • the print head was separated from the imaging layer by a thin intermediate material and made contact with the slipping layer of a separatable intermediate 5 ⁇ m thick polyethylene terephthalate ribbon being coated in consecutive order with a subbing layer, heat-resistant layer and said slipping layer (anti-friction layer) giving the ribbon a total thickness of 6 ⁇ m.
  • the optical maximum and minimum densities of the prints given in table III were measured through a visual filter with a Macbeth TD904 densitometer in the grey scale step corresponding to data levels of 255 and 0 respectively.
  • NCV values were determined at optical densities (D) of 1, 2 and 3.
  • the degree of crystallization of toning agent was evaluated after storage at 50°C for 1 hour and before printing, using the following criteria:
  • thermographic materials with toning agents of the present invention exhibit superior colour neutrality after storage for 3 days at 57°C and 34% RH (relative humidity) than thermographic materials with prior art toning agents.
  • a subbed polyethylene terephthalate support having a thickness of 175 ⁇ m was doctor blade-coated from a coating composition containing butanone as a solvent and the following ingredients so as to obtain thereon, after drying for 1 hour at 50°C, a layer containing: silver behenate 3.2 g/m 2 polyvinyl butyral (BUTVAR B79-tradename) 3.2 g/m 2 reductor type Z 0.61 g/m 2 Baysilone (trademark) 0.011 g/m 2 toning agent (see table IV for type and quantity)
  • a subbed polyethylene terephthalate support having a thickness of 175 ⁇ m was doctor blade-coated from a coating composition containing butanone as a solvent and the following ingredients so as to obtain thereon, after drying for 1 hour at 50°C, a layer containing: silver behenate 5.0 g/m 2 polyvinyl butyral (BUTVAR B79-tradename) 5.0 g/m 2 reductor type Z 0.95 g/m 2 Baysilone (trademark) 0.015 g/m 2 toning agent (see table V for type and quantity)
  • the printer was equipped with a thin film thermal head with a resolution of 300 dpi and was operated with a line time of 32ms (the line time being the time needed for printing one line). During said line time the print head received constant power.
  • the average printing power being the total amount of electrical input energy during one line time divided by the line time and by the surface area of the heat-generating resistors was 14.3W/mm 2 being sufficient to obtain maximum optical density in each of said recording materials.
  • the print head was separated from the imaging layer by a thin intermediate material and made contact with the slipping layer of a separatable intermediate 5 ⁇ m thick polyethylene terephthalate ribbon being coated in consecutive order with a subbing layer, heat-resistant layer and said slipping layer (anti-friction layer) giving the ribbon a total thickness of 6 ⁇ m.
  • the optical maximum and minimum densities of the prints given in tables IV and V were measured through a visual filter with a Macbeth TD904 densitometer in the grey scale step corresponding to data levels of 255 and 0 respectively.
  • NCV values were determined at optical densities (D) of 1 and 2.
  • Table IV Comparative examples toning agent image characteristics Toning agent solubility in butanone [% by wt] type conc.
  • thermographic materials with toning agents of the present invention exhibit superior colour neutrality after storage for 3 days at 57°C and 34% RH (relative humidity) than thermographic materials with prior art toning agents.

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