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Thermal developing and transferring method

US4620096A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 23, 1985
Grant dateOct 28, 1986
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Expiry dateDec 23, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03C5/00
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method and apparatus for developing and transferring an image from a sheet of thermally developing photo-sensitive paper N containing a mobile pigment to a sheet of print paper P containing a pigment fixer, comprising a thermal developer 4 of the photo-sensitive paper, means for overlaying the photo-sensitive and print paper, a heater 8 for transferring the mobile pigments from the developed photo-sensitive paper to the print paper, and a separator 54 for peeling apart the photo-sensitive and print papers.

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