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Process for producing a colored image with reduced dot gain and colored image obtained thereby

US6007960A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

Karin Marz · Mainz, DE
Dieter Mohr · Appenheim, DE
Dieter Bodenheimer · Katzenelnbogen, DE
Manfred Hilger · Konz, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 16, 1997
Grant date	Dec 28, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 16, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03F3/102
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A process for producing a colored image by laminating a light-sensitive material comprising a temporary support film (i), a colored light-sensitive layer and a heat-activable adhesive layer onto an image-receiving material at elevated temperature and under pressure, subjecting the light-sensitive layer to imagewise exposure and developing by peeling off the support film, characterized in that the image-receiving material comprises a light-sensitive compound which, on irradiation, releases a gas which remains trapped in the image-receiving material in the form of gas bubbles. The advantage of the process is that, on irradiation under a halftone original, the size of the halftone dots in the coloured image produced on such an image-receiving material is optically reduced.

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