Abstract: An image receiving sheet includes an image receiving layer including a resin and having a thickness of 1 ?m or greater; and an antistatic layer being the outermost layer, including a resin and at least one conductive material selected from conductive particles and a conductive polymer and having a thickness smaller than that of the image receiving layer, on at least one surface of a support, in an order from the support side.

Abstract: A laminated film including a support; an optical functional layer on A surface side of the support and condenses or diffuses incident light; and a hard coat layer of at least 150 nm thick which is provided on the outermost layer of B surface side that is opposite to the A surface side of the support and has an inorganic component formed of a hydrolyzate of alkoxysilane or a UV curable resin as a main component, has excellent brightness. The hard coat layer has high hardness and the adhesiveness between the hard coat layer and a support is excellent.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for movie, having a specific layer structure by using particles of at least one kind of electroconductive metal oxide and at least one kind of an electroconductive polymer.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for movie, having a specific layer structure by using particles of at least one kind of electroconductive metal oxide and at least one kind of an electroconductive polymer.

Abstract: A black ink composition that contains metal particles having a silver tin alloy region as its colorant.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a support for image recording material, which can record high quality images without causing blister, unevenness of recording and unevenness of fixation; various image recording materials using the support for image recording material; and an image recording method. Therefore, the present invention provides a support for image recording material, comprising a base paper and at least one polyolefin resin layer formed on both surfaces of the base paper, wherein a front surface polyolefin resin layer at the side of the polyolefin resin layer, on which an image recording layer is formed, is composed of two or more layers, and an average density of an outermost front surface polyolefin resin layer, which is located farthest from the base paper, is less than that of at least any front surface polyolefin resin layers other than the outermost front surface polyolefin resin layer.

Abstract: A black ink composition that contains metal particles having a silver tin alloy region as its colorant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a support for image recording material etc. that can record high-quality images far from occurrences of blister, uneven recording or uneven fixing. In order to attain the object, a support for image recording material is provided that comprises a raw paper, and at least one polyolefin resin layer on both sides of the raw paper, wherein two or more polyolefin resin layers are disposed at the front side where an image recording layer is to be disposed, polypropylene resin is included within at least one polyolefin resin layer at the front side other than the outermost polyolefin resin layer at the front side, and the content A (% by mass) of polypropylene resin within the at least one polyolefin resin layer at the front side other than the outermost polyolefin resin layer is higher than the content B (% by mass) of polypropylene resin within the outermost polyolefin resin layer at the front side.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a support for image recording material, which can record high quality images without causing blister, unevenness of recording and unevenness of fixation; various image recording materials using the support for image recording material; and an image recording method. Therefore, the present invention provides a support for image recording material, comprising a base paper and at least one polyolefin resin layer formed on both surfaces of the base paper, wherein a front surface polyolefin resin layer at the side of the polyolefin resin layer, on which an image recording layer is formed, is composed of two or more layers, and an average density of an outermost front surface polyolefin resin layer, which is located farthest from the base paper, is less than that of at least any front surface polyolefin resin layers other than the outermost front surface polyolefin resin layer.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an image-receiving sheet for the electrophotography which is excellent in the adhesion resistance and can form an image having a high image quality and an effective manufacturing method thereof, and also a image-forming process and image-forming system for the electrophotography using the image-receiving sheet for the electrophotography. For this object, the present invention provides an image-receiving sheet for the electrophotography comprising a support and a toner image-receiving layer disposed on at least one surface of the support which comprises at least a polymer used for producing the toner image-receiving layer, wherein the image-receiving sheet for the electrophotography comprises particles and the particle size distribution (standard deviation/volume average particle diameter) of the particles projecting out of the most outer surface of the toner image-receiving sheet for the electrophotography is 0.4 or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on a latent electrostatic image bearing member based on a digital image; a developing unit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image with a toner to form a visible image; a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image to one of an electrophotographic image receiving roll and an electrophotographic image receiving sheet; and a smoothing and fixing unit configured to smooth and fix the transferred image on one of the electrophotographic image receiving roll and the electrophotographic image receiving sheet to thereby form a series of electrophotographic prints and an electrophotographic print. In the apparatus, the hardware including the media, printer and unit for aftertreatment optimally matches with the toner, and the apparatus can produce high-quality images equal to silver-halide photographs.

Abstract: An image recording sheet used in electrophotographic imaging which comprises a paper sheet substrate coated with an image recording layer that takes on a probe penetration depth of 0.33 ?m or greater for a change in prove temperature from 50° to 150° C. when measuring the probe penetration depth on a scanning type thermal microscope having a thermal probe operative as both heater and position sensor that is made of a Pt alloy containing 10% of Rh and has a cantilever spring constant of 1 N/m, a diameter of 6 ?m and a curvature radius of 5 ?m at an extreme end thereof under a condition that the thermal prove is changed in temperature at a programming rate of 15° C./sec within a programmed range of from a room temperature to 200° C. under a load (weight)+20 nA in 4-split T-B (Top-Bottom) value.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a multicolor image forming material for recording an image by irradiation with laser light comprising an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer and at least four heat transfer sheets having a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer, wherein the light-heat conversion layer contains a polyamide-imide of a specific structure and a cyanine colorant of a specific structure.

Abstract: A multicolor image forming material in which a laser beam irradiated region of an image forming layer of a thermal transfer sheet is transferred onto an image receiving layer of an image receiving sheet, wherein: (a) a rate of heat shrinkage in the machine direction and a rate of heat shrinkage in the traverse direction of the image receiving sheet are both not more than 1% with the rate of heat shrinkage in the traverse direction being smaller than the rate of heat shrinkage in the machine direction, (b) a coefficient of dynamic friction between the thermal transfer sheet surface and the image receiving sheet surface is not more than 0.70, (c) a stiffness in the machine direction (Msh) and a stiffness in the traverse direction (Tsh) of the thermal transfer sheet are both from 30 to 70 g, a stiffness in the machine direction (Msr) and in the traverse direction (Tsr) of the image receiving sheet are both from 40 to 90 g, Msh/Tsh and Msr/Tsr are each from 0.75 to 1.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four (yellow, magenta, cyan, black and the like) thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, wherein image-recording is performed by the method comprising superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with laser beams in two-dimensional array to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and a recording area of a multicolor image in each of the thermal transfer sheets is a size of 515 mm×728 mm or more, a resolution of the transferred image is 2,400 dpi or more, and each of the light-to-heat converting layers comprises from 1 to 20% by weight of a substance

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet excellent in both adhesion resistance and cracking resistance, and an image-forming method using the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet. Accordingly, the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet contains a support, and at least two polymer layers disposed on the support, and at least one of the polymer layers containing voids.

Abstract: An image recording sheet used in electrophotographic imaging which comprises a paper sheet substrate coated with an image recording layer that takes on a probe penetration depth of 0.33 ?m or greater for a change in prove temperature from 50° to 150° C. when measuring the probe penetration depth on a scanning type thermal microscope having a thermal probe operative as both heater and position sensor that is made of a Pt alloy containing 10% of Rh and has a cantilever spring constant of 1 N/m, a diameter of 6 ?m and a curvature radius of 5 ?m at an extreme end thereof under a condition that the thermal prove is changed in temperature at a programming rate of 15° C./sec within a programmed range of from a room temperature to 200° C. under a load (weight)+20 nA in 4-split T-B (Top-Bottom) value.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a multicolor image forming material for recording an image by irradiation with laser light comprising an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer and at least four heat transfer sheets having a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer, wherein the light-heat conversion layer contains a polyamide-imide of a specific structure and a cyanine colorant of a specific structure.

Abstract: In the image forming process of the present invention wherein a toner is fixed on an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet using a belt fixing and smoothing device, the relationship among the temperature of a heating and fixing roller, the melting point of a toner wax, and the glass transition point of a toner binder, the relationship among the temperature of a heating and fixing roller, the melting point of a wax in the image-receiving layer, and the glass transition point of a binder in the image-receiving layer, and the relationship between the polar components of surface free energy of the toner-image-receiving layer before and after image fixing are optimized. The present invention is to prevent offset in the toner and the toner-image-receiving layer of the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet upon releasing of the belt and to avoid deterioration in image quality especially in operation over the long run.

Abstract: To provide a multicolor image forming material in which upon irradiation with laser beam, a laser beam irradiated region of an image forming layer is transferred onto an image receiving, layer of an image receiving sheet to undergo multicolor image recording, wherein the multicolor image forming material is (a) a multicolor image forming material wherein a ratio of an optical density (OD) to a film thickness of the image forming layer of each thermal transfer sheet is 1.