Image forming system
US5578824A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 21, 1995 |
| Grant date | Nov 26, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 21, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03F3/108
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A donor sheet having at least a thin image-forming film on a support is brought into a superposed relationship with an image-receiving material having an image-receiving layer provided on a support either directly or with at least one cushion layer interposed in such a way that the thin film faces the image-receiving layer, and thermal energy is applied imagewise onto the donor sheet, which is then peeled from the image-receiving material to form an image on the latter. Donor sheets having a plurality of peelable thin films are combined selectively with different image-forming materials to insure that at least operations selected from among color image formation, mask image formation, platemaking and filter preparation are possible.
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