Dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer

US6020286A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Felix Schoeller jr. Foto-und Spezialpapiere GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Gumbiowski · Wallenhorst, DE
• Jurgen Graumann · Osnabrück, DE
• Dieter Becker · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 10, 1997
• Grant date: Feb 1, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 10, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/31902
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer, with a substrate, a composite foil and a dye-receiving layer, the composite foil contains a thermoplastic core layer exhibiting micropores and, on the side facing the receiving layer, at least two pore-free thermoplastic surface layers, and the substrate is a paper with a density of .ltoreq.0.8 g/cm.sup.3.