Abstract: An arts and crafts material having a foil pattern imprinted thereon. In one embodiment, the arts and crafts material of the present invention includes a sheet of foil substantially uniformly adhered to a corresponding sheet of base material such as foam. Once the foil sheet is secured to the base material, the foil sheet is peeled back to disclose the foil sheet's coating transferred onto the base material. The base material is preferably resiliently compressible. Portions of the sheet of arts and crafts material maybe cut to form particular shapes such as body and tail portions of fishing flies.

Abstract: A rewritable thermal label of the non-contact type which comprises an anchor coat layer comprising a crosslinked resin, a heat-sensitive color development layer and a light absorption and photo-thermal conversion layer which are laminated on one face of a substrate successively, the anchor coat layer being placed next to the substrate, and an adhesive layer placed on the other face of the substrate and allows recording and erasure of information repeatedly in accordance with the non-contact method; and a method for using a rewritable thermal label of the non-contact type which comprises recording and erasing information repeatedly in accordance with the non-contact method on the rewritable thermal label which remains attached to an adherend. Information can be recorded and erased repeatedly on the label which remains attached to the adherend and the label can be recycled together with the adherend.

Abstract: An image forming method comprising, superimposing an ink sheet on an intermediate transfer medium, the ink sheet comprising a thermally transferable ink layer, and the intermediate transfer medium comprising a support having thereon an interlayer and an intermediate image receiving layer in the order; applying heat in response to an imagewise signal onto the ink sheet to form an ink image on the image receiving layer of the intermediate transfer medium; peeling off the ink sheet from the intermediate transfer medium having the ink image; superimposing a final image forming material on the intermediate transfer medium having the ink image; and applying heat or pressure to the superimposed final image forming material on the intermediate transfer medium so as to transfer the ink image onto the final image forming material, wherein the image receiving layer is imagewise transferred to the final image forming material together with the ink image.

Abstract: A transfer material and method of use for transferring monochrome and full colour images produced by a xerographic process or dry toner printing onto a substrate. The process requires the use of film form polymethylpentene material as the transfer material which is used to transfer the xerographic or dry toner image onto the substrate with the application of heat and pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for making sheets having indicia spaced in a machine direction. Between or among the indicia are perforations or chop-off cuts. The spacing, in the machine direction, between the indicia and perforations or chop-off cuts is maintained over long sheet lengths. The product produced using this apparatus and process is typically paper, and particularly can be used for paper towels or placemats.

Abstract: A donor element is described for use in a thermal imaging process. The donor element includes a support: a heating layer; a colorant containing transfer layer; and an overcoat layer comprising a wax having a melting point ranging from about 30° C. to about 350° C. Typically the wax is a natural vegetable wax, a mineral wax or a synthetic wax.

Abstract: The invention relates to consumer product packages having impact promotional items printed directly on the package and methods for manufacturing such product packages. An image constituting the impact promotional item is printed using blended printing inks and sublimation dyes onto a paperboard blank, which is folded to form a product package. The printed image has a visual appearance substantially unchanged from a conventional printed image. The sublimation dyes present in the printed image supply a transferrable image component that, following transfer to a substrate such as a fabric article, accurately reproduces the printed image viewed by the consumer on the product package. Printing ink and sublimation dye blends for printing the image are also disclosed, as are methods for transferring the transferrable image component to an article, such as a fabric article or textile.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for making an image-recording element, for example a dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer, that includes a support having on one side thereof a image-receiving layer and, between the image-receiving layer and the support, a tie layer comprising a thermoplastic antistat polymer. In one embodiment, the process comprises (a) forming a first melt of a polymer for the surface layer and a second melt comprising a thermoplastic antistat polymer in a polymeric binder; (b) coextruding the two melts onto a polyolefin support; (c) stretching the coextruded layers to reduce the thickness; and (d) applying the coextruded melts to a support while simultaneously reducing the temperature below the Tg of the composition of the surface layer.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method of preparing an imaged member comprising a substrate having an imagable coating on a face thereof, the method comprising the steps of: (a) imaging a precursor of the member to produce an imaged member which includes image and non-image areas on the coated face; and (b) treating the substrate to increase its dimensional stability, the treatment comprising at least one of: (i) effecting a change in the chemical structure of the substrate, or (ii) coating a non-coated face of the substrate with a fluid, gel, or particulate solid.

Abstract: An UV-ray shielding layer and a moisture barrier layer are formed on edges of a recording paper which includes thermosensitive coloring layers having a fixing property to a ultraviolet ray. Another UV-ray shielding layer and another moisture barrier layer are formed in an opposite side of the support to the thermosensitive coloring layer. The UV-ray shielding layers prevent the ultraviolet ray from penetrating through the edge and the support and from reaching the thermosensitive coloring layers. Further, the moisture barrier layers prevent the thermosensitive coloring layer from absorbing moisture from air. Images are formed in the recording paper adequately without influence of the moisture and the ultraviolet ray during being stocked.

Abstract: A functional material is proposed in which by developing colors, the degree of volatilization of a volatile agent can be visually checked, and the color is stabilized. A volatile agent having desensitizing property, a coloring agent, a developer and an embedding material are mixed while heating and melting, and retained on a carrier.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material includes a support having disposed thereon a heat-sensitive layer including microcapsules, which contain an achromic or hypochromic electron-donating dye precursor, and a developer, wherein the microcapsules contain at least one metal compound.

Abstract: An image transfer sheet, having a support sheet, an optional barrier layer on the support sheet, at least one heat release layer on the optional barrier layer or on the support sheet, an image receiving layer on the heat release layer, an optional image layer on the image receiving layer, an optional non-water-dispersible polymer layer on the image layer, and an optional transfer blocking overcoat layer on the optional polymer layer or the image layer, is used in a dry heat transfer process to transfer an image to a receptor element. The image receiving layer of the present invention is a precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC)-containing image receiving layer, a polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-containing image receiving layer, or an image receiving layer containing both PCC and PVP (PCC/PVP).

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat transferable protective overcoat comprising a hydroxyphenyl triazine compound in a polymeric binder. Such an overcoat provides UV protection without degrading sunlight protection.

Abstract: The invention relates to an article comprising ethoxylated alcohol wax intercalated in smectite clay. Embodiments of the invention comprise a sheet or an imaging member comprising an image layer and at least one layer comprising ethoxylated alcohol wax intercalated in smectite clay. The invention comprises a method of forming intercalated clay by providing smectite clay and combining the clay with ethoxylated alcohol wax and heating the mixture to above the softening point of the wax. The method further includes combining the intercalated clay with a polymer.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a recording material in which an ink receiving layer containing at least a resin and a pigment is provided on a substrate, the recording material being characterized in that the ink receiving layer is porous, apparent density thereof is 0.2 to 0.8 g/cm3 and heat conductivity of the ink receiving layer and the substrate is 0.1 to 0.25 W/m·K. The recording material can produce highly precise image even if the amount of heat generated at the head is small and the printing pressure is low, i.e., the recording material has excellent dot reproduction and excellent dot transfer of highlighted portions.

Abstract: Disclosed is an OLED device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a host and a dopant where the dopant comprises a boron compound containing a bis(azinyl)methene boron complex group.

Abstract: The invention relates to microcapsules for which the walls comprise reaction products of polyisocyanates, guanidine compounds, and optionally amines, wherein the polyisocyanates have an isocyanurate content of at least 30% by weight, based on polyisocyanate, and the walls comprise on average less than 9% by weight, based on the total weight of the microcapsule.

Abstract: Thermal transfer recording media which make it possible to provide a highly sharpness and clear image even in case of printing on non-coated paper at a high speed and to improve the rub resistance of a printed area after the completion of printing. The present invention provides a thermal transfer recording medium comprising of a base material and a peel layer including a wax (A) and an ink layer including a styrene resin (B), a binder component (C) and a coloring component (D) laminated successively on the base material, wherein the wax (A) is compatible with the styrene resin (B). In the present invention, it is preferable that the weight ratio of the styrene resin (B) to the binder component (C) preferably ranges from 10:90 to 50:50.

Abstract: There is provided a hot-melt transfer ink image-receiving sheet which is excellent in abrasion resistance as well as image density and halftone dot reproducibility of a recorded image and useful as a contact printing film in the photomechanical process. In this hot-melt transfer ink image-receiving sheet 4 having an image-receiving surface 3 on a support 1, the image-receiving surface 3 has surface roughness (JIS-B0601) of 0.15-0.60 &mgr;m in terms of arithmetic mean deviation Ra and 1.0-3.0 &mgr;m in terms of 10-point height of irregularities Rz.