JP2000203169A - Film to be recorded - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a film to be recorded of superior surface smoothness and proving sufficient image density and resolution. SOLUTION: A void containing polyester film contains a number of voids inside, and its apparent specific gravity is 1.3 or less, the center line average surface roughness is 0.3 mm or less, and an ink acceptive layer is formed at least on one face of the void containing polyester film, and the average light movement distance is 0.15 mm or shorter.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a film for recording. Further, the present invention relates to a recording film for a thermal transfer or sublimation transfer printer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional thermal transfer image receiving sheet, there is known a natural paper or a sheet having a recording layer formed on the surface of natural paper. However, in this method, only those having insufficient surface smoothness can be obtained. On the other hand, in order to improve the smoothness of the image receiving sheet, a thin polypropylene synthetic paper and natural paper are bonded together or a thick polypropylene synthetic paper is used as a base material, and a recording layer is formed on these surfaces. Those provided are widely used. This is because polypropylene-based synthetic paper has a surface smoothness that cannot be obtained with natural paper, and also has an appropriate cushioning property. By having an appropriate cushioning property, uniform and sufficient contact can be made between the heating head / transfer ribbon / image receiving sheet during thermal transfer, and a uniform and high-density printed matter can be obtained. . However, when polypropylene-based synthetic paper is used as the base material, the polypropylene-based synthetic paper is extremely easily plastically deformed and has poor flexibility. And there is a serious disadvantage that the quality of the printed matter is significantly impaired. On the other hand, a method using a polyester-based void-containing film instead of the polypropylene-based synthetic paper has been proposed. However, a polyester-based void-containing film generally has higher rigidity than a polypropylene-based synthetic paper and has insufficient cushioning properties.
Therefore, in order to obtain an image density equivalent to that obtained by using a polyester-based synthetic paper using a polyester-based void-containing film, it is necessary to increase the void content in order to ensure cushioning. Further, the definition of the image is required together with the image density. This is because even finer images need to be seen clearly without blurring. For image density, it is better that the dots of the printer constituting the image are large, but this reduces the sharpness. Therefore, the dot size has an optimum value. However, no matter how much the dots are controlled to the optimum value, a clearer image cannot be obtained unless the optical dot gain due to the light diffusion inside the image receiving paper and the image receiving film occurs as much as possible.
This has not been well controlled in conventional image receiving films.

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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a disadvantage of the above-mentioned prior art, namely, to a recording film having excellent surface smoothness and sufficient image density and resolution.

[0004]

The present invention relates to a void-containing polyester film containing a large number of voids therein, which has an apparent specific gravity of 1.3 or less and a center line average surface roughness of 0.3 mm. A recording film, wherein an ink-receiving layer is provided on at least one side of the following void-containing polyester film, and the average light moving distance is 0.15 mm or less.

[0005] The polyester in the present invention is obtained by mixing an aromatic dicarboxylic acid such as terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid and naphthalenedicarboxylic acid or an ester thereof with a glycol such as ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, 1,4-butanediol and neopentyl glycol. It is a polyester produced by condensation. These polyesters may be prepared by directly reacting an aromatic dicarboxylic acid and a glycol, or by subjecting an alkyl ester of the aromatic dicarboxylic acid to a transesterification reaction with a glycol followed by polycondensation, or a diglycol ester of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid. Can be produced by a method such as polycondensation. Representative examples of such polyesters include polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene butylene terephthalate, and polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate. This polyester may be a homopolymer or a copolymer of the third component. In any case, in the present invention, a polyester having an ethylene terephthalate unit, a butylene terephthalate unit or an ethylene-2,6-naphthalate unit of 70 mol% or more, preferably 80 mol% or more, more preferably 90 mol% or more is preferable. .

The thermoplastic resin incompatible with the polyester used in the present invention is optional, and is not particularly limited as long as it is incompatible with the polyester. The cavity derived from the thermoplastic resin incompatible with the polyester means that a cavity exists around the thermoplastic resin, and can be confirmed by, for example, a cross-sectional photograph of the film by an electron microscope. Specific examples include polystyrene-based resins, polyolefin-based resins, polyacryl-based resins, polycarbonate resins, polysulfone-based resins, and cellulose-based resins. In particular, polystyrene resins or polyolefin resins such as polymethylpentene and polypropylene are preferably used.

However, more preferred thermoplastic resins incompatible with polyester include, for example, the following. That is, the thermoplastic resin incompatible with the polyester contains at least a polystyrene resin, a polymethylpentene resin, and a polypropylene resin, and contains a polystyrene resin content (a weight%) and a polymethylpentene resin. The amount (b weight%) and the content of the polypropylene resin (c weight%) are as follows: 0.01 ≦ a / (b + c) ≦ 1, c / b ≦ 1, 3 ≦
It is most preferable to satisfy a + b + c ≦ 20, which is suitable for increasing the void ratio and improving the folding wrinkle resistance.

[0008] Here, the polystyrene resin refers to a thermoplastic resin having a polystyrene structure as a basic component, and includes other components in addition to homopolymers such as atactic polystyrene, syndiotactic polystyrene, and isotactic polystyrene. Modified resins graft- or block-copolymerized, such as impact-resistant polystyrene resins and modified polyphenylene ether resins, and mixtures of these polystyrene-based resins with thermoplastic resins, such as polyphenylene ether, are also included.

[0009] The polymethylpentene resin is 8
0 mol% or more, preferably 90 mol% or more, is a polymer having units derived from 4-methylpentene-1, and other components include ethylene units, propylene units,
Derived units derived from butene-1 unit, 3-methylbutene-1 and the like are exemplified. The melt flow rate of such polymethylpentene is preferably 200 g / 10 min or less, more preferably 30 g / 10 min or less. This is because if the melt flow rate exceeds 200 g / 10 minutes, it is difficult to obtain the effect of reducing the weight of the film.

The polypropylene resin in the present invention also includes modified resins obtained by grafting or block copolymerizing other components in addition to homopolymers such as isotactic polypropylene and syndiotactic polypropylene. Further, as the presence state of the polypropylene resin in the present invention, the above polypropylene resin may be used separately from the polymethylpentene, or a propylene unit may be used as a copolymer component in the polymethylpentene resin. The introduced one may be used.

The mixing amount of these void-forming agents, that is, the thermoplastic resin incompatible with the polyester, to the polyester varies depending on the desired amount of voids, but is in the range of 3 to 20% by weight based on the whole film. And more preferably 5 to 18% by weight. And 3
If the amount is less than the weight percentage, there is a limit to increasing the amount of cavities generated. Conversely, if the content is 20% by weight or more, the stretchability of the film is significantly impaired, and the heat resistance, strength, and stiffness are impaired.

Further, in order to improve the concealing property and the like, inorganic or organic particles may be added to the film in the polyester or in the incompatible resin, if necessary. Particles that can be added include silica, kaolinite, talc,
Examples thereof include, but are not particularly limited to, calcium carbonate, zeolite, alumina, barium sulfate, carbon black, zinc oxide, titanium oxide, zinc sulfide, and organic white pigment.

The void-containing polyester film of the present invention has an apparent specific gravity of 1.3 or less, preferably 1.2 or less.
More preferably, it must be 1.1 or less. And
If the apparent specific gravity is larger than 1.3, the amount of cavities existing in the film is too small, and a sufficient image density cannot be obtained during thermal transfer printing. On the other hand, the lower limit of the apparent specific gravity is not limited, but is preferably 0.7 or more, and more preferably 0.8 or more, in order to secure the breaking wrinkle resistance.

The void-containing polyester film of the present invention has a center line average surface roughness of 0.3 μm or less, preferably 0.25 μm or less, more preferably 0.2 μm or less, more preferably 0.1 μm or less. It is 15 μm or less. If it exceeds 0.3 μm, the smoothness of the film surface and thus the surface smoothness of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet will be impaired, and it will be difficult to obtain uniform adhesion between the ink ribbon and the image-receiving paper during thermal transfer printing, resulting in an extremely low image density. Because.
In addition, the thermal transfer image becomes rough, and the print quality is greatly reduced.

Furthermore, the void-containing film of the present invention must have an average light moving distance within the film of 0.15 mm or less, preferably 0.13 mm or less, more preferably 0.10 mm or less. If the average light moving distance exceeds 0.15 mm, the printed image will be inferior in sharpness and the image will be blurred, which is not preferable.

This average light moving distance can be usually obtained from MTF which is an index indicating the high resolution of the photographic material. A Probability Description of the Yule-Niel
senEffect II: The Impact of Halftone Geometry (Jou
rnal of Imaging Science and Technology pp637, vol
ume 41, 1997) experimentally states that the MTF and the average light travel distance have a relationship of Equation 1.

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(Equation 1) In other words, if the MTF of each frequency is found, this kp will be found. However, the MTF is usually calculated from the reflected light density of screens with different line widths and intervals (spatial frequency) placed on paper or recording film or printed directly, or the spatial frequency changes continuously. From the light having a sinusoidal function distribution using the reflection density. However, this method only requires relatively low frequencies. In particular, when kp is obtained from paper or a recording film, the error becomes very large.Therefore, the kp obtained from the method of the embodiment described later and the sharpness of the printed matter on the paper or the recording film are relatively small. Think of it as a good match.

The uniform biaxially oriented film will be described in detail by exemplifying means for achieving the above average light travel distance. Although not limited to the following method, the following method is desirable. First, the average particle size is 0.1 ~
A polyester layer (skin layer) containing fine voids derived from fine particles of 3 μm is provided on the core layer (A layer). 0.
If it is 1 μm or less or exceeds 3 μm, the average light moving distance cannot be within the preferable range of the present invention even if the addition amount is increased.

The particles that can be added to the skin layer may be inorganic particles or organic particles, and are not particularly limited. For example, titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate, barium sulfate, zinc sulfide, Examples include silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, talc, and kaolin.
These particles may be subjected to a surface treatment as necessary. Examples of the treating agent include, but are not limited to, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, zinc oxide, silicon-based resin, siloxane-based resin, fluorine-based resin, silane coupling agent and titanate coupling agent, polyol and polyvinylpyridine. Not something.

Among them, particularly preferred particles include titanium oxide fine particles and / or zinc sulfide fine particles. The titanium oxide fine particles may be either anatase type or rutile type. Further, the particle surface may be subjected to an inorganic treatment such as alumina or silica, or may be subjected to a silicon-based or alcohol-based organic treatment.

The concentration of the fine particles added to the skin layer is arbitrary, but is preferably 20 to 50% by weight. When the addition amount is less than 10%, it is difficult to reduce the average light moving distance to 0.15 mm or less.
On the other hand, when it exceeds 50%, the smoothness of the film surface is rapidly deteriorated and the quality of the image is lowered.

Further, a coloring agent, a light-proofing agent, a fluorescent agent, an antistatic agent and the like can be added to the skin layer as needed.

The thickness of the skin layer is preferably 1 to 20 μm and less than 30% of the total thickness of the film. If the thickness of the skin layer is less than 1 μm, the variation in the concentration of fine particles per surface area of the film becomes large, so that the image density becomes uneven and the printed matter tends to give a rough impression. On the other hand, even if the skin layer is formed with a thickness exceeding 20 μm, the effect of improving the image density cannot be obtained and is meaningless. Furthermore, the skin layer thickness is 30 times
%, The stretchability of the whole film tends to be remarkably reduced, which is not preferable for securing stable industrial productivity.

The average light moving distance can be controlled by the amount and type of particles in the skin layer and the core layer, the amount of cavities, the thickness ratio, and the like. Considering other parameters and productivity, as an example, when titanium oxide is used for the skin layer, the added amount is 20 to 40% by weight, the thickness of the skin layer is 5 to 25% of the entire thickness, Specific gravity is 0.75
A value of about 1.05 seems to be good. However, in the present invention, the raw materials can be changed without being limited to this method.

The method of producing the void-containing polyester film of the present invention is arbitrary, and is not particularly limited. For example, it can be produced as follows. First, as a method of joining the skin layer to the film surface,
It is most preferable to adopt a co-extrusion method in which the resins of the layer A and the layer B are supplied to different extruders, then laminated in a molten state and extruded from the same die.

The unstretched sheet thus obtained is further stretched between rolls having different speeds (roll stretching), stretched by gripping and expanding with clips (tenter stretching), or stretched by air pressure. (Inflation stretching) and the like are subjected to biaxial orientation treatment. By performing the orientation treatment, interfacial separation occurs between the polyester / incompatible resin and between the polyester / fine particles, and many fine cavities are developed. Therefore, the conditions for stretching and orienting the unstretched sheet are closely related to the formation of cavities. Hereinafter, the stretching / orienting conditions will be described by taking as an example a sequential biaxial stretching method most preferably used, particularly a method of stretching an unstretched sheet in the longitudinal direction and then in the width direction.

First, the first-stage longitudinal stretching step is the most important process for forming many fine cavities inside the film. In longitudinal stretching, stretching is performed between two or many rolls having different peripheral speeds. As the heating means at this time,
A method using a heating roll or a method using a non-contact heating method may be used, or both may be used. Among these, the most preferred stretching method is a method using both roll heating and non-contact heating. In this case, the film is first preheated to 50 ° C. to a temperature equal to or lower than the glass transition point of the polyester using a heating roll, and then the front and back sides of the film are heated by independent infrared heaters of a control system. At this time,
The skin layer surface is heated to a lower temperature, and the insufficient heat is compensated for by infrared heating from the opposite surface. Thus, it is extremely important to heat and stretch the film front and back to different temperatures. The method of providing a temperature difference with a non-contact heating device is only one preferable example, and the same effect can be obtained by another method, for example, a method of sandwiching a film between rolls having different temperatures and heating. In any case, the heating of the entire film is mainly performed from the anti-skin layer side to supply a sufficient amount of heat enough to uniformly stretch the film, and the skin layer surface is stretched at a lower temperature. This is an important point for forming a large number of cavities derived from inorganic fine particles.

Next, the uniaxially stretched film thus obtained is introduced into a tenter and stretched 2.5 to 5 times in the width direction. The preferred stretching temperature at this time is 100 ° C to 2 ° C.
00 ° C. The biaxially stretched film thus obtained is subjected to a heat treatment as necessary. The heat treatment is preferably performed in a tenter, and the melting point of the polyester is Tm-50.
It is preferable to carry out in the range of ° C. to Tm.

The recording film of the present invention preferably has an ink receiving layer on at least one of its surfaces. As the compound constituting the ink receiving layer, a polyester-based resin is preferable. In addition, a polyurethane resin, a polyester-urethane resin, an acrylic-based resin, and a compound disclosed as a means for improving the adhesiveness of an ordinary polyester film are also used. Etc. are applicable.

As a method for providing a coating layer, a method generally used such as a gravure coating method, a kiss coating method, a dip method, a spray coating method, a curtain coating method, an air knife coating method, a blade coating method, a reverse roll coating method, etc. Applicable. As the step of applying, any method such as a method of applying before stretching the film, a method of applying after longitudinal stretching, and a method of applying to the surface of the film after the orientation treatment is possible.

The thus obtained void-containing polyester-based film can obtain excellent image clarity as compared with the conventional void-containing film. To prepare a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet using the void-containing polyester film of the present invention, a recording layer for receiving ink or a diffusible (sublimable) dye migrating from the thermal transfer ink sheet is formed on the film surface. do it. In this case, the recording layer may be formed directly on the film, or may be formed via an undercoat layer such as an easy-adhesion layer, a whiteness improving layer, or an antistatic layer.

Further, the void-containing polyester film of the present invention may be used alone as a substrate, or may be used in combination with another substrate. Other substrates that can be combined include
Examples include, but are not limited to, natural paper, various synthetic resin films, woven fabrics, and nonwoven fabrics. Alternatively, the surface opposite to the surface on which the receiving layer is formed may be subjected to adhesive processing to be used as a heat transfer printable adhesive label.

The thus-obtained film for recording has excellent surface smoothness, sufficient image density and resolution, and excellent folding wrinkle resistance as compared with conventionally proposed films. Most suitable for recording for thermal transfer and sublimation transfer.

Next, examples of the present invention and comparative examples will be described. The measurement / evaluation method used in the present invention will be described below. 1) Apparent specific gravity A film was cut out accurately into a square of 10 cm × 10 cm, and its thickness was measured at 50 points to obtain an average thickness t (unit: μm).
Ask for. Next, the weight of the sample is measured up to 0.1 mg and is referred to as w (unit: g). Then, the apparent specific gravity was calculated by the following equation. Apparent specific gravity (-) = (w / t) x 10000

2) Center line average surface roughness According to JIS-B601-1982, using a Surfcom 300A type surface roughness meter (manufactured by Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd.), stylus diameter 2 μm, stylus pressure 30 m
g, measurement pressure 30 mg, cut-off 0.8 mm, measurement length 2.5 mm, and the center line average surface roughness was measured.

3) Thermal Transfer Sensitivity Characteristics (Relative Image Density) Regarding a sample obtained by cutting a recording film into A6 size, a commercially available ink ribbon (print set P- for a sublimation transfer printer manufactured by Caravelle Data System Co., Ltd.)
Printing is performed at a printing speed of 100 mm / sec and a head voltage of 18 V using a PS100) and a commercially available thermal transfer printer (BLP-323, a thermal transfer label printer manufactured by Bon Electric Co., Ltd.). The print pattern is 9 mm x 9 mm for each of the four colors C (cyan), M (magenta), Y (yellow), and K (black) obtained by superimposing them.
A pattern is used in which seven (7) total solid square characters (total 28) are arranged in an A6 sheet. After printing, the reflection density of each color of CMYK is measured using a Macbeth densitometer (TR-927), and the average density of four colors (total 28 locations) is obtained. Similarly, a commercially available image receiving paper (print set P-PS10 for a sublimation transfer printer manufactured by Caravelle Data System Co., Ltd.)
0: Natural paper was laminated with a foamed polypropylene film on both sides to form a recording layer), the average density was determined in the same manner, and the thermal transfer sensitivity characteristic was calculated as the ratio (%) of the density of the sample to the density of the commercially available image-receiving paper. To evaluate.

4) Thickness of Skin Layer The cut surface of the film was observed and observed with an electron microscope.

5) Average light travel distance kp inside the film A dot screen is placed on the film, and the reflectance of the film portion at each dot area ratio is measured. The reflectance with respect to the area ratio is plotted, and the value of kp is determined by Equation 2 and the least squares method so that the minimum value is obtained. The value of kp at that time is defined as the average light moving distance. The measuring instrument, conditions, etc. are as follows. Screen: A in photographic emulsion on transparent polyester
M halftone created at 65 dpi. Dot area ratio should be at least every 10% from 0 to 100% and 95
Use%. Measuring device: Edmund Scientific Infiviver Video microscope to CCD camera (Sony XC-7
8) Capture the image. At this time, the magnification is set so that the width is 2 mm on a 14-inch television monitor. The image is decomposed into 512 × 384 pixels, and the reflectance distribution at each point (based on the aluminum oxide white plate) is obtained. The reflectance with the largest number of points is defined as the reflectance Rp of this sample, and plotted against each dot area ratio F. The image analysis software is IMAGELAB (Werner Frei As
sociates), but other software may be used as long as the function is satisfied.

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(Equation 2) The value of A is determined by Imaging Science (author JCDain).
ty et al., published in Academic Press), pp. 244, found the MTF of paper using a 100 μm-thick polyester film containing 5% titanium oxide (TA-300 manufactured by Fuji Titanium Co., Ltd.). Then, kp when it is most approximated to Equation 1 by the least squares method is obtained. Using this kp, the minimum value of A in the method using the screen is 0.810
And adopted it. Samples are stacked on each other so that Rp is not substantially affected by the pedestal.

6) Sharpness of image Ph with a printer (CAMEDIA P-300 manufactured by Olympus Optical)
Images from otoCD (manufactured by Kodak) were launched, and ◎ was given for clear images, ○ for virtually no problems, and × for blurred images.

Example 1 (Adjustment of cavity forming agent) Melt flow rate as raw material
20% by weight of a 1.7 polystyrene resin (TOPOLEX 570-57U manufactured by Mitsui Toatsu Co., Ltd.) and a melt flow rate of 1.7
Polypropylene resin (Noblene manufactured by Mitsui Toatsu Co., Ltd.)
FO-50F) 20 wt% and melt flow rate 8 polymethylpentene resin (TPX, manufactured by Mitsui Petrochemical Co., Ltd.)
DX-845) 60% by weight of pellets were mixed, supplied to a twin-screw extruder, and sufficiently kneaded to prepare a cavity-forming agent.

(Preparation of Master Pellets Containing Fine Particles) 50% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.64 and 50% by weight of anatase type titanium dioxide (TA-300 manufactured by Fuji Titanium Co., Ltd.) 50
% By weight is supplied to a vent-type twin-screw extruder and preliminarily kneaded, and then the molten polymer is continuously supplied to a vent-type single-screw kneader and kneaded to contain fine particles (titanium oxide). The master pellet was prepared. Subsequently, 10% by weight of the cavity-forming agent obtained by the above method, 5% by weight of master pellets containing fine particles (titanium oxide) and an intrinsic viscosity of 0.1% were used.
The polyethylene terephthalate resin of No. 62 was mixed with pellets in an amount of 85% by weight and vacuum-dried to obtain a raw material for the film constituting the layer A. On the other hand, 30% by weight of a polyethylene terephthalate resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.62 and 70% by weight of the above-mentioned master pellets containing fine particles (titanium oxide) were mixed and vacuum-dried to obtain a raw material for a film constituting the B layer.

(Preparation of Unstretched Film) Next, the raw materials of the films constituting the above layers were supplied to separate extruders, and the layer B was joined to one surface of the layer A in a molten state using a feed block. At this time, the discharge amount ratio of the A layer and the B layer was controlled to 93: 7 volume ratio using a gear pump.
Then, it was extruded onto a cooling drum adjusted to 30 ° C. by using a T-die to prepare an unstretched sheet having a thickness of about 600 μm. At this time, extrusion was performed so that the layer B side was a non-drum surface and the layer A side was a drum surface.

(Preparation of Biaxially Stretched Film) The obtained unstretched sheet was uniformly heated to 65 ° C. using a heating roll,
The speed is regulated (2 m / min) by sandwiching the film between a metal roll whose temperature is controlled to 65 ° C. and a rubber roll whose temperature is not controlled,
Similarly, it was stretched 3.4 times with a high-speed roll (metal roll was controlled at a temperature of 30 ° C., and a rubber roll was not controlled) whose speed was regulated (6.8 m / min). At this time, the two sets of rolls whose speeds were regulated were installed in parallel so that the interval between the speed regulation points was 25 cm, and they were arranged so that the B surface (non-drum surface) side was in contact with the rubber roll surface. In addition, an infrared heater having a gold reflection film at the center of the nip roll (rated 20
(W / cm) was placed opposite to both surfaces of the film (a distance of 1 cm from the film surface), the layer A surface was heated at 100% of the rated current, and the layer B surface was heated at 60% of the rated. The uniaxially stretched film thus obtained is guided to a tenter, heated to 140 ° C., stretched transversely 3.7 times, and fixed in width.
Heat treatment was performed at 220 ° C. for 5 seconds, and relaxation was further performed at 220 ° C. in the width direction by 4% to obtain a 75 μm-thick void-containing polyester film. (Formation of Ink Receiving Layer) An anchor layer having the following composition was coated on the obtained void-containing polyester film with a bar of 0.5 g / m ² . Dried at 160 ° C for 1 minute. Urethane dry laminating agent (A-130 Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
100 parts Curing agent (A-3 manufactured by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) 30 parts Further, an ink receiving layer having the following composition was coated with a solid content of 6 g / m ² bar. Copolymerized polyester resin (Vylon 20SS Toyobo Co., Ltd.) 9.5 parts Isocyanate resin (Coronate L Nippon Polyurethane Co., Ltd.) 0.5 parts Amino-modified silicone (Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.) 0.7 parts Epoxy-modified silicone (Shin-Etsu Chemical) 0.7 parts Solvent (methyl ethyl ketone / toluene) 85 parts by weight Dried at 160 ° C for 2 minutes. By this method, a recording film for a thermal transfer printer was obtained.

Example 2 In Example 1, the thickness of the film was changed to B / A / B = 5/9.
A recording film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the thickness was changed to 0/5 μm.

COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 The procedure of Example B was repeated except that 84% by weight of a polyethylene terephthalate resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.62 and 16% by weight of master pellets containing fine particles (titanium oxide) were mixed and vacuum-dried as a raw material for the layer B. A recording film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1.

Comparative Example 2 A recording film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the thickness of the film was changed to 18/18.

Comparative Example 3 Vacuum-dried polyethylene terephthalate chips having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.62 and 88% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate chips, 2% by weight of polyethylene glycol flakes having a molecular weight of 4000, and polymethylpentene pellets having a melt flow rate of 180 (TPX, manufactured by Mitsui Petrochemical Co., Ltd.) DX-820) 10 wt% was added and mixed to obtain a raw material for a film constituting the layer A. on the other hand,
In the same manner as in Example 1, a master pellet containing fine particles (calcium carbonate) containing 30% by weight of calcium carbonate particles (manufactured by Bihoku Powder Co., Ltd., Softon) having an average particle diameter of 1.2 μm (electron microscopic method) was prepared. This master pellet 45
% By weight and 55% by weight of a polyethylene terephthalate resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.62, followed by vacuum drying to obtain a raw material for a film constituting the B layer. The raw materials of the film constituting each layer were supplied to separate extruders, and the B layer was bonded to both sides of the A layer using a feed block. In the subsequent steps, the film was stretched 3.5 times at 98 ° C according to a conventional method.
The film was transversely stretched by 3.2 times at a temperature of 220 ° C. and then heat-treated at a temperature of 220 ° C. to obtain a void-containing polyester film. Otherwise, Example 1
A film for recording was obtained in the same manner as described above.

Comparative Example 3 As raw materials for the film constituting the layer A, 10% by weight of a master pellet containing fine particles (titanium oxide) subjected to vacuum drying, 83% by weight of a polyethylene terephthalate resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.62 subjected to vacuum drying, and a melt were used. Flow rate 1.
A recording film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that 7% by weight of a polystyrene resin (TOPOLEX 570-57U manufactured by Mitsui Toatsu Co., Ltd.) was mixed in a pellet.

Example 3 As a fine particle-containing master pellet used in the layer B, a zinc sulfide fine particle having an average particle diameter of 0.3 μm (electron microscopic method) was used in place of the titanium oxide particle, and the same method as in Example 1 was used. A recording film was obtained. In addition, the same raw material as that of Example 1 was used for the material of the layer A.

Example 4 The discharge ratio of the layer A and the layer B was changed to 85 to 15 by volume,
Layer B1 (non-drum surface) / layer A / layer B2 (drum surface) in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the discharge amount of layer B is equally divided into two to form layer B on both sides of layer A. An unstretched sheet having the structure was prepared. In the subsequent stretching and heat treatment steps, a film for recording was obtained in exactly the same manner as in Example 1.

Example 5 As raw materials for the layer B, 40% by weight of a polyethylene terephthalate resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.62, 50% by weight of a master pellet containing fine particles (titanium oxide) used in Example 1, and a master pellet containing a fluorescent brightener (Eastman OB in polyethylene terephthalate resin with intrinsic viscosity of 0.62
-1 (2% by weight) was mixed with pellets and vacuum-dried. Except for this, an unstretched film was prepared in exactly the same manner as in Example 1. The obtained unstretched sheet was uniformly heated to 83 ° C.
The speed is controlled (2 m / min) by sandwiching the film between a metal roll and a non-heated rubber roll whose temperature is controlled to ℃, and the speed is similarly controlled (6.8 m / min). Rubber roll temperature is not controlled)
Stretched 3.4 times. At this time, the two sets of rolls whose speeds were regulated were installed in parallel so that the interval between the speed regulation points was 25 cm, and they were arranged so that the B surface (non-drum surface) side was in contact with the rubber roll surface. In this example, the film was heated only by the roll heating without using the auxiliary heating device.
The uniaxially stretched film thus obtained is guided to a tenter, heated to 130 ° C., stretched 3.5 times in a transverse direction, fixed in width, subjected to a heat treatment at 220 ° C. for 5 seconds, and further heated at 220 ° C. in the width direction. A recording film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that a polyester film containing cavities was relaxed by 4%.

Example 6 The raw material composition ratio of the film constituting the layer A was as follows: cavity forming agent / master pellet containing fine particles (titanium oxide) / polyethylene terephthalate resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.62 = 7/5/8
A recording film was obtained in exactly the same manner as in Example 1 except that the recording film was set to 8.

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[Table 2]

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According to the present invention, there is provided an excellent recording film having excellent surface smoothness and sufficient image density and resolution.

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[Claims] 1. A void-containing polyester film containing a large number of voids therein, wherein the apparent specific gravity is 1.3 or less and the center line average surface roughness is 0.3 mm or less. A recording film provided with an ink receiving layer on at least one side thereof and having an average light moving distance of 0.15 mm or less. 2. The polyester film according to claim 1, wherein the polyester layer (skin layer) containing a number of cavities derived from fine particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 5 μm is incompatible with the polyester. 2. The film for recording according to claim 1, comprising a polyester film containing voids, wherein a film (core layer) containing voids derived from a plastic resin inside the film is laminated. 3. The skin layer according to claim 2, having a thickness of 1 to 2.
3. The film for recording according to claim 2, wherein the base material is a void-containing polyester film having a thickness of 0 μm and 3% or more and less than 30% of the total thickness of the film. 4. A film to be recorded, characterized in that the fine particle added to the skin layer according to claim 2 is a titanium-oxide-containing void-containing polyester film as a base material. 5. A film to be recorded, characterized in that the substrate is a void-containing polyester film in which the fine particles added to the skin layer according to claim 2 are zinc sulfide. 6. A thermoplastic resin incompatible with polyester containing at least a polystyrene resin, a polymethylpentene resin and a polypropylene resin, wherein the polystyrene resin content (a weight%) and the polymethylpentene resin 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the base material is a void-containing polyester film having a resin content (b weight%) and a polypropylene resin content (c weight%) satisfying the following relationship. Any recording film. 0.01 ≦ a / (b + c) ≦ 1 c / b ≦ 13 3 ≦ a + b + c ≦ 20 7. The recording film according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the base material is a polyester film containing fine voids therein by being oriented at least uniaxially. 8. The recording film according to claim 1, wherein the ink receiving layer contains at least a polyester resin.