Abstract: An image-forming process comprising the steps of:(A) transferring an image layer, formed on a transferable light-sensitive material, onto an image-receiving sheet, and(B) transferring the image layer onto a permanent support, wherein the image-receiving sheet comprises a support having formed thereon an image-receiving layer composed of a composition containing an organic high molecular material as the main component, wherein an adhesive power P.sub.1 between the support of the image-receiving sheet and the image-receiving layer and an adhesive power P.sub.2 between the image-receiving layer and the image layer are higher than an adhesive power P.sub.3 between the image layer and the support of the transferable light-sensitive material, and also an adhesive power P.sub.4 between the permanent support and the image layer and adhesive power P.sub.1 are higher than adhesive power P.sub.

Abstract: This invention relates to positive working photosensitized sheet constructions which, upon exposure to an actinic radiation source through a screened image, can accurately reproduce said image. The construction is useful as a color proofing film which can be employed to predict the image quality from a lithographic printing process. The element is composed of a substrate, colored photosensitive layer and adhesive layer. The adhesive layer contains an optical brightener compound which reduces residual yellow staining derived from the naphthoquinone diazide sensitizer.

Abstract: A process for forming an image comprising imagewise exposing a light-sensitive element comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye providing substance which produces or releases a mobile dye corresponding or counter-corresponding to a reaction where said light-sensitive silver halide is reduced to silver at an elevated temperature, and subsequently or simultaneously heating said light-sensitive element in the presence of at least one of a base and precursor thereof, and thereby transferring said mobile dye thus produced or released to a dye fixing element, wherein a coated layer of said dye fixing element has been hardened with an epoxy hardener.

Abstract: A method for forming an image is described, comprising developing a photosensitive element which comprises a support provided thereon a photosensitive layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye providing substance which forms or releases a diffusible dye by developing after or simultaneously with imagewise exposure thereof, transferring the thus-formed or released diffusible dye to a dye fixing layer of a dye fixing element, and thereafter separating said photosensitive element and said dye fixing element from each other, wherein at least one layer constituting said photosensitive element and said dye fixing element contains an oil component.

Abstract: A method is described for forming an image by transferring an image layer formed on a transferable light-sensitive material to an image-receiving sheet, and then further transferring the image to a permanent support, wherein the image-receiving sheet comprises a support, a first layer on the support, said first layer being made of a first organic polymeric substance, and a second layer on the first layer, said second layer being made of a second organic polymeric substance, whereinin peeling apart the image-receiving sheet from the transferable light-sensitive material,P.sub.1, P.sub.2, P.sub.3 >P.sub.4wherein P.sub.1 is an adhesion force between the support and the first layer, P.sub.2 is an adhesion force between the first and second layers, P.sub.3 is an adhesion force between the second layer and the image layer, and P.sub.

Abstract: Transfer images free from spots are obtained by the heat development process using a photographic recording material and a separate image receptor sheet if either the photothermographic recording material or the image receptor sheet or both contain a mixture of gelatine and sodium alginate in a surface contact layer.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive element is described comprising a support having provided thereon at least one of a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an image-receiving layer, in which a layer comprising a light-reflective organic polymer is provided between the support and the light-sensitive silver halide layer or the image-receiving layer. The light-reflective organic polymer layer serves as a stripping layer without retarding image-formation.

Abstract: In dry film resists possessing a solid photopolymerizable resist layer, which is applied on a temporary base and can be developed with aqueous, in particular aqueous alkaline, media, and, if required, a cover sheet on the resist layer, the said resist layer is built from a homogeneous mixture of (a) not less than 40% by weight of one or more oligomers which contain free carboxyl groups and more than two acryloyl and/or methacryloyl groups and are soluble or dispersible in aqueous alkaline solutions, (b) from 1 to 35% by weight of one or more film-forming compatible polymers which are soluble in aqueous media, (c) from 1 to 30% by weight of one or more compatible photopolymerizable monomers, (d) from 0.001 to 10% by weight of one or more photoinitiators and (e) from 0 to 30% by weight of further additives and/or assistants. Resist images are produced on a substrate by a process employing photopolymerizable resist layers of the type stated above.

Abstract: High molecular weight polymeric poly(ethylene oxide) compounds are employed as stripping agents for separating layers of photographic products.

Abstract: Dry-film, positive-acting photoresist layers are used in the formation of many articles such as circuit boards, printing plates and the like. Laminable monolayers of photoresist suffer from slow speeds, brittleness, and narrow latitude during development and exposure. The use of a thermoplastic, crosslinked or crosslinkable integral adhesive layer on the dry-film, positive-acting photoresist layer improves the properties and performance of the photoresist.

Abstract: This invention relates to positive working photosensitized sheet constructions which, upon exposure to an actinic radiation source through a screened image, can accurately reproduce said image. The construction is useful as a color proofing film which can be employed to predict the image quality from a lithographic printing process.

Abstract: This invention relates to negative photosensitized sheet constructions which, upon exposure to an actinic radiation source through a screened image, can accurately reproduce said image. The construction is useful as a color proofing film which can be employed to predict the image quality from a lithographic printing process.

Abstract: There is described a photomechanical method for forming pressure sensitive transfer reproductions of color images, either single color or multicolor, upon a substrate involving the forming of a base coat protective layer on a substrate, applying one color ink layer on the base layer and a white ink overlayer on the one color ink layer. The surface of the white ink overlayer is powdered and a layer of photoresist composition is applied. The photoresist covered layered substrate is exposed to a light source through an image carrying photographic negative film to harden the photoresist at the imaged areas thereby forming a mask. Nonhardened photoresist composition areas along with their underlaying layers are removed using stepwise solvent development steps. The steps are repeated where different ink colors are to be applied to form a multicolored image.

Abstract: This invention relates to photosensitized sheet constructions which, upon exposure to an actinic radiation source through a screened image, can accurately reproduce said image. The construction is useful as a color proofing film which can be employed to accurately predict the image quality from a lithographic printing process. This system allows the operator to use either a full layer transfer or an image transfer method of color proofing.

Abstract: A mask element for selective sandblasting comprising a support film layer and, superimposed thereon in the following order, a retainer film layer of a water-insoluble cellulose derivative and a photoresist layer of a pattern mask, said photoresist layer of pattern mask being adapted to adhere to the surface of an article body to be engraved with a strength such that the mask is not detached therefrom during sandblasting. By the use of the mask element of the present invention, a pattern exactly corresponding to that of the mask, even if it is very fine, can be engraved on an article body nicely.

Abstract: An image receiving material for a silver salt diffusion transfer process comprising a support and at least one image receiving layer, wherein the image receiving layer comprises a binder made up of gelatin, physical development nuclei and polysaccharides having a viscosity of 3 to 200 cp when measured in a 5% aqueous solution at 25.degree. C., with a ratio of the polysaccharides/gelatin being from about 1/10 to 8/10 by weight, and the same or different image receiving layer comprises a surface active agent represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group having from 8 to 24 carbon atoms or ##STR2## (wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, provided that the total number of carbon atoms of R.sup.1 and R.sup.

Abstract: A transfer sheet with a color pattern having metallic luster comprising at least a transparent or semi-transparent base film, a mold-removing film layer on one side of the base film, a transparent coloring agent layer in the form of a desired pattern on the mold removing film layer, and an aluminum vapor-coated layer on the transparent coloring agent layer.A method of manufacturing such transfer sheet.

Abstract: This invention relates to a light-sensitive laminate comprising a light-sensitive layer of photoresist, a support therefor, and an intermediate protective layer preferably of a light-transmitting material disposed between said photoresist layer and said support. In use, the photoresist layer of the laminate is adhered to a base material and the support stripped therefrom, thereby leaving a composite comprising the base material, photoresist layer and intermediate protective layer disposed over said photoresist layer. The intermediate layer serves to protect the photoresist layer from damage such as by abrasion or otherwise during processing, thereby permitting storage of the so-formed composite prior to use. Since the intermediate layer may be of a light-transmitting material, photo-imaging may take place through the intermediate layer with the intermediate layer subsequently removed by contact with a solvent that is a non-solvent for those areas of photoresist left after development.

Abstract: Photographic assemblages and processes are described wherein a stripping layer is employed to enable an image-receiving layer to be separated from the rest of the assemblage after processing. Each side of the stripping layer has a hydrophilic layer immediately adjacent thereto, only one of which contains a surfactant-like material having a hydrocarbon fatty tail of at least eight carbon atoms which is remote from a polar group, the material being present in an amount sufficient to enable a clean separation between the image-receiving layer and the portion of the assemblage containing the silver halide emulsion layer.Transparencies or prints which are less bulky and free from surface defects at the stripping layer interface can thereby be obtained from integral assemblages.

Abstract: A transfer medium useful for preparing duplicates of originals such as printed matter. The transfer medium comprises a light-transmissive backing sheet, a layer coated on at least one major surface thereof containing a photooxidizable reactant and an oxygen-sensitizing dye in a film-forming binder and, over said layer, a top coat of an oxygen-permeable, low tack adhesive.Upon imagewise exposure to light, the transfer medium is desensitized in areas corresponding to the light image areas of the original, resulting in a latent image in the areas corresponding to the dark image areas of the original.The unoxidized photooxidizable reactant is capable of inter-reacting with a second reactant material borne on the surface of a receptor sheet at a conversion temperature between 70.degree. C. and 150.degree. C. to produce a visibly distinct reaction product.

Abstract: Photographic assemblages and processes are described wherein a stripping layer is employed to enable an image-receiving layer to be separated from the rest of the assemblage after processing. Each side of the stripping layer has a hydrophilic layer immediately adjacent thereto, only one of which contains particulate material substantially insensitive to light and in a volume percentage of about 5 to about 75 percent of the hydrophilic material-particulate material mixture, so that upon separation, substantially all of the stripping layer will remain with the portion of the assemblage having the hydrophilic layer containing the particulate material.Transparencies or prints which are less bulky can thereby be obtained from integral assemblages.

Abstract: Photographic assemblages and processes are described wherein a certain stripping agent is employed to enable an image-receiving layer to be separated from the rest of the assemblage after processing. The stripping agent comprises a straight chain alkyl or polyethylene oxide perfluoroalkylated ester or perfluoroalkylated ether, and preferably has the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl or substituted alkyl group having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms or an aryl or substituted aryl group having from about 6 to about 10 carbon atoms; ##STR2## R.sup.3 is H or R.sup.1 ; n is an integer of from about 4 to about 20; andx and y each independently represents an integer of from about 2 to about 50, andz represents an integer of from 1 to about 50.Less bulky black-and-white or color prints or transparencies can thereby be obtained from integral assemblages. Materials from the discarded layers may also be recycled.

Abstract: A process for preparing a mask for sandblasting, in which there is employed a transparent soluble peel-aid film layer superimposed on a transparent protective film layer to cover a liquid photopolymerizable composition layer. According to the process, the protective film can be readily stripped and a mask for sandblasting which has a strong adherence to articles to be engraved can be produced efficiently without occurrence of troubles, such as chipping of high-precision portions, e.g. fine dots and lines, of polymeric images.

Abstract: A transfer element for sandblast carving comprising, in order, a flexible substrate, an intermediate resin layer which is strippable from the flexible substrate and is a pressure-sensitive adhesive to an etchable material, and a resist comprising a photocured photosensitive resin.

Abstract: Photosensitive elements comprising a layer of a solvent-soluble, thermoplastic, elastomeric, block copolymer, a nongaseous ethylenically unsaturated compound, and an addition polymerization initiator activatable by actinic light interposed between a support and cover sheet, a flexible polymeric film, e.g., polyamide, being interposed between the cover sheet and the surface of the layer. The elements are useful in preparing printing plates, particularly flexographic printing plates, and other relief images.

Abstract: A method for forming a cured resin coating having a desired pattern on the surface of a substrate, which comprisesa first step of applying a coating of an ultraviolet light-curable resin to the surface of the substrate;a second step of pre-curing said coating by irradiating ultraviolet light thereto;a third step of applying a printed layer of a predetermined pattern partly to the surface of the precured coating with a light-insensitive non-transparent printing ink;a fourth step of irradiating ultraviolet light to the product obtained in the third step to cure completely that part of the pre-cured coating on which the printed layer is absent, while that part of the pre-cured coating which exists beneath the printed layer is maintained intact; anddissolving or peeling the printed layer and the pre-cured layer existing beneath it, whereby the resin coating having the desired pattern which is in a complementary relation to the pattern of said printed layer is formed on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Photothermographic imaging elements are provided with strippable layers which have electrical conductivity in the range of 60 to 1,500 ohms/square. The elements may be exposed to radiation and then thermally developed by applying a voltage across the strippable layer which becomes resistively heated. After development, the strippable layer may be removed.

Abstract: This invention relates to diffusion transfer photographic processes and to products useful therein which employ a stripping layer consisting of a mixture of cellulose acetate hydrogen phthalate and a straight chain saturated polyester of adipic acid to facilitate separation of a dyeable stratum from a contiguous gelatin layer, e.g., a gelatino silver halide emulsion layer or a gelatin layer containing an image dye-providing material.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a light-sensitive layer transfer material comprising a temporary film support and a light-sensitive thermoplastic photoresist layer detachably connected therewith, the improvement being that the underside of the film support has a lower adhesion to the photoresist layer than its upper side. The invention also relates to a process for transferring a light-sensitive photoresist layer from a temporary to a permanent support.

Abstract: A silver diffusion transfer film unit which comprises, in order, a support, a silver precipitating layer, a protective layer comprising chitosan having a copper salt and a polyol selected from the group consisting of glycerol, sorbitol, polyvinyl alcohol, inositol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and hydroxyethyl cellulose disposed therein, a release layer, and a photosensitive silver halide layer. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the film unit is an additive color diffusion transfer film unit.

Abstract: A silver diffusion transfer film unit which comprises, in order, a support carrying a silver precipitating layer, a protective layer comprising chitosan having a copper salt and gelatin disposed therein, a release layer and a photosensitive silver halide layer. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the film unit is an additive color diffusion transfer film unit.

Abstract: A photosensitive element is provided by an actinic radiation-transmissive film-forming polymeric material which contains photolabile blocked surfactant capable upon exposure to actinic radiation of releasing a detectable quantity of surfactant in actinic radiation exposed areas in areas not exposed to actinic radiation and unblocked surfactant in an image-wise pattern in the actinic radiation exposed areas. An imaging process is also provided comprising providing the actinic radiation-sensitive element and exposing the actinic radiation-sensitive element to actinic radiation in an image-wise pattern at an intensity and for a time sufficient to release an image-wise pattern of released surfactant in the exposed area.

Abstract: Improved process for forming multicolor proofs by laminating to a receptor a positive-working photopolymer element having an electrical discharge treated polyethylene terephthalate support bearing a photopolymerizable layer containing a monomeric component of or mixture of monomeric components as defined; a compatible polymeric acrylate binder and optionally a polyvinyl acetate binder, the weight ratio of polyvinyl acetate to acrylate binder being less than 4 to 3, and an initiator or initiator system; exposing the layer imagewise; removing the support, applying and distributing colorant, removing the colorant in the exposed areas and repeating the steps at least once with another photopolymer element, the lamination being to the previously laminated element.

Abstract: A photosensitive silver halide element comprising a support carrying photosensitive silver halide grains in a predetermined spaced array is prepared by a method which comprises at least partially coalescing fine-grain silver halide in a plurality of spaced depressions in a hydrophobic layer, superposing said layer with a hydrophilic layer during or subsequent to said coalescence, and then separating said hydrophilic layer and said hydrophobic layer whereby said coalesced silver halide grains are retained on said hydrophilic layer in a pattern corresponding substantially to the pattern of said spaced depressions.

Abstract: Two-sheet diffusion transfer assemblages, photographic elements and dye image-receiving elements are described wherein an overcoat layer is present on the photographic element or the dye image-receiving element superposed thereon. The overcoat layer comprises either silica or an ionic polyester in a hydrophilic colloid which prevents spontaneous delamination during the lamination period, yet permits satisfactory peel-apart afterwards.

Abstract: A dry film photoresist consisting of a two-layer base incorporating a solid polymeric substrate with a thickness of from 15 to 100.mu. and an intermediate polymeric layer with a thickness of from 3 to 15.mu. transparent to UV-radiation within the range of from 300 to 400 nm, a light-sensitive layer with a thickness of from 4 to 20.mu. and a protective polymeric film with a thickness of from 5 to 50.mu.. All four of these layers are bonded therebetween by adhesion forces so that the adhesion of the protective polymeric film to the light-sensitive layer is less than the cohesion strength of the light-sensitive layer; the adhesion of the solid polymeric substrate to the intermediate polymeric layer is less than the adhesion of the intermediate polymeric layer to the light-sensitive layer and the adhesion force of each of the three above-mentioned layers is less than the cohesion strength of each of said layers.

Abstract: A process for forming an image is disclosed wherein a photo-sensitive image-forming material composed of a support and a layer of a thermoplastic photo-sensitive composition which is not adhesive at ordinary temperatures, is exposed and developed by heating in intimate contact with a peeling development carrier sheet at least one surface of which is composed of a thermoplastic material not adhesive at ordinary temperatures, and, subsequently, peeling the development carrier sheet from the photo-sensitive image-forming material.