Abstract: A post-activation type dry image forming material comprising (I) a silver salt component reducible to free silver upon light exposure and including silver iodide; (II) a redox reactive composition capable of making a visual change by a redox reaction of said composition, said reaction being initiated by heating in the presence of free silver; (III) an oxidizing agent for free silver which has an oxidizing capacity for free silver but is rendered photosensitive by heating and which, upon light exposure after said heating, is suppressed with respect to the oxidizing capacity for free silver and capable of catalytically promoting the redox reaction of said composition; and (IV) a photoreactive oxidizing agent, upon light exposure, capable of returning the reduced oxidizing agent for free silver to the original state.

Abstract: A novel dry image forming material comprising in one or more layers on a support (a) a non-photosensitive organic silver salt oxidizing agent, (b) a reducing agent for silver ions, (c) a silver halide component or a silver halide-forming component, (d) a toning agent and (e) a lipophilic binder, characterized by the inclusion of a specific 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)benzotriazole compound having bulky tert-butyl or tert-amyl groups at its ortho- and para-positions relative to the hydroxyl group in a layer containing the component (a). The dry image forming material of the present invention has high storage stability prior to use for image formation.

Abstract: A method for storing sheets of a photothermographic sheet material composed of a high molecular weight compound support and a sensitive emulsion comprising, as the indispendable constituents, an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, a reducing agent for silver ion, a photosensitive silver salt compound or its precursor, and a binder, characterized by inserting paper having smooth surfaces between every two sheets of said photothermographic sheet material. By this method, the photothermographic sheet material can be stored for a long period of time without deterioration of quality.

Abstract: A heat developable silver image forming material comprising:(a) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent;(b) a compound or a composition capable of forming a photosensitive silver compound by reaction with the organic silver salt oxidizing agent (a);(c) a reducing agent for silver ion; and(d) a compound having a unit of ##STR1##

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming an image using an image forming sheet that is normally non-photosensitive but can be rendered photosensitive by preheating and is exposed at the preheated area to a light image to form therein a latent image and then heat-developed to form a visible image. After preheating, the preheated area is cooled by cooling means prior to exposure.

Abstract: A dry image forming material comprising (a) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, (b) a reducing agent, (c) a photosensitive silver compound or a photosensitive silver compound-forming component and (d) a high impact acrylic resin used as a binder material of the image forming coating and/or a material of any protective layer has been found to be excellent in impact peel strength, blooming or chalking resistance and storage stability of raw material. The high impact acrylic resin (d) has an Izod impact strength of at least 0.4 ft.lb/in as measured in accordance with ASTM D 256.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming an image using an image forming sheet that is normally non-photosensitive but can be rendered photosensitive by preheating and is exposed at the preheated area to a light image to form therein a latent image and then heat-developed to form a visible image. After preheating, the preheated area is cooled by cooling means prior to exposure.

Abstract: A process for preparing a silver salt of an organic carboxylic acid comprising reacting an alkali metal salt of the organic carboxylic acid with a water-soluble silver salt, and wherein there is used as the reaction solvent a mixture consisting of at least one water-soluble or partially water-soluble C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 alcohol and water and having a mixing volume ratio of 1/5 to 5/1. The silver salt of the organic carboxylic acid prepared in high yield according to the process of the present invention is in uniformly finely divided form of high purity and suitable for use in photographic materials.

Abstract: A novel dry image forming material comprising (a) a non-photosensitive organic silver salt oxidizing agent, (b) a reducing agent for silver ions, (c) a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide-forming component capable of forming a photosensitive silver halide by the reaction thereof with said organic silver salt oxidizing agent, and (d) a substituted 3-pyrazolin-5-one. The dry image forming material has improved sensitivity and storage stability of the raw image forming material and can form thereon an excellent black tone image.

Abstract: In image forming apparatus using a heat-developable image forming sheet which is normally non-photosensitive but can be rendered photosensitive by preheating and is exposed to a light image to form a latent image and then heat-developed to produce a visible image, first heating means for preheating, exposure means for exposing the image forming sheet to the light image and the second heating means for heat development are respectively provided with fixing means for respectively fixing different image forming areas of the sheet at the processing positions of the respective means, and the first and second heating means and the exposure means are arranged so that the different image forming areas can be simultaneously processed by the respective means in parallel.

Abstract: A heat developable photosensitive material comprising:(a) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent;(b) a halogen molecule or an organic haloamide compound;(c) a reducing agent for silver ion; and(d) a nitrogen-containing organic base whose pKa of the conjugate acid ranges from 0.5 to 10.0 and the nitrogen-containing organic base having, in its molecule, no acidic proton or a nitrogen-containing organic base whose pKa of its conjugate acid ranges from 0.5 to 10.0 and the nitrogen-containing organic base having, in its molecule, an acidic proton whose pKa is more than 12.

Abstract: A novel printed circuit board with a circuit of high precision having a polymer coat layer between a base and a dispersion imaging material layer and a pattern circuit on undispersed portions of the dispersion imaging material layer. Such a printed circuit board is prepared by a simplified process which comprises essentially two steps, namely, exposure of the dispersion imaging material through a circuit pattern mask to obtain a pattern circuit of the unexposed portions and conductive metal plating wherein said unexposed portions are selectively deposited with the conductive metal due to the specific effect of provision of the polymer coat layer directly under the dispersion imaging material layer.

Abstract: A dry image forming material with an increased sensitivity, characterized by including a) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, b) a reducing agent and c) a compound or a composition which comprises a halogen component and an organic component containing an element except for sulfur belonging to the IV group, V group or VI group of the periodic table and having an atomic number of 14 or more, and is adapted, by heating, to interact with the silver ion of a) to form a photosensitive interaction product. The dry image forming material according to this invention is of the type of post-activation and can be prepared, stored and handled under normal lighting conditions. The post-activation type dry image forming material according to this invention can be spectrally sensitized by incorporation of a sensitizing dye.