Abstract: Recording and record elements are disclosed. The elements have thin film optical recording layers of a SbSnGe alloy. The alloy has a composition within a polygon ABCDEF in a ternary SbSnGe composition diagram as shown in FIG. 5 herein.

Abstract: Optical recording and record elements are provided. The elements comprise a write-once amorphous thin-film optical recording layer of an alloy having a composition within a polygon in a ternary composition diagram of antimony, zinc, and tin; wherein(a) the composition diagram is according to FIG.

Abstract: A method is provided for the optical recording of information in which an amorphous recording layer 4 having a composition according to formula (1) provided on a synthetic resin substrate (2) (FIG. 1) in a maximum layer thickness of 150 nm is exposed of infrared laser light having a wavelength of 750-900 nm and pulsed in accordance with the binary information to be recorded with a pulse time of at most 200 ns. A crystalline area 6 (bit) having maximum dimensions of a few micrometers is formed in the amorphous layer in the exposed places. As optical recording element is also provided for use in the method.

Abstract: Optical recording and record elements are provided. The elements comprise a write-once amorphous thin-film optical recording layer of an alloy having a composition within a polygon in a ternary composition diagram of antimony, aluminum, and tin; wherein(a) the composition diagram is according to FIG.

Abstract: Recording and record elements are disclosed. The elements have thin film optical recording layers of a SbSnGe alloy. The alloy has a composition within a polygon ABCDEF in a ternary SbSnGe composition diagram as shown in FIG. 5 herein.

Abstract: Spirobenzanthracene phthalide compounds are disclosed of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 independently represent C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl optionally substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkoxy; C.sub.5 or C.sub.6 cycloalkyl; or aralkyl or aryl optionally substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkoxy, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, may form pyrrolidino, piperidino or morpholino ring, and R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.9 and R.sup.10 independently represent hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkoxy or trifluoromethyl. The compounds are used, together with a developer, in color for materials such as pressure-sensitive copying papers, heat-sensitive recording papers and the like.

Abstract: A medium in tape form for laser recorded optical information featuring a gelatin layer having a thin black crust at the top of the layer. The crust is formed by developed black filamentary silver particles within the top 0.5 micron of a gelatin colloid matrix. The remainder of the colloid matrix is substantially clear gelatin and a reflective metallic layer is disposed below the gelatin. The tape may be disposed on reels and may be pre-patterned during formation of the crust with indicia, such as servo track guides or timing marks. User data may be recorded by modification or by displacing the black silver particles in the crust with a laser to expose the reflective underlayer. A laser or other light source is used to read data on the medium with optical contrast between the black surface and the reflective metallic layer underlying the gelatin layer which can be observed in the recorded spots.

Abstract: The process for improving radiant energy sensitivity of a film base coated with a dispersion of a normally crystalline polyacetylenic compound in a non-solvating liquid which is dried on the film surface; said polyacetylenic compound preferably having at least two conjugated acetylenic linkages and containing from 20 to 60 carbon atoms. The process comprises dispersing said normally crystalline polyacetylenic compound in the non-solvating liquid to a concentration of from about 2 to about 50% polyacetylene crystalline solids and ageing said dispersion by (a) storing at a temperature of between about 0.degree. C. and about 12.degree. C. for a period of from about 1 to about 30 days or (b) freezing said dispersion at a temperature between about -78.degree. C. and about -1.degree. C. for a period of from about 1 to about 75 hours or (c) a combination of the above ageing techniques any or all of which are completed before drying said dispersion on a substrate.

Abstract: A method for electronic "dry" development of latent images in conventional types of color photographic films comprising interrogating the film with a series of different color light beams, each corresponding in color frequency with a different color sensitivety of the film and each having a time-amplitude energy content that is sufficient to drive that latent color image in the film into a condition of saturation. Deriving from each of said different color interrogations an electrical signal, corresponding to the latent image in that color, and recording said electrical signals. An apparatus for performing said method comprises a portable, light tight enclosure, containing a series of different color interrogating light beam generating mechanism, light energy detectors, and electrical recorders.

Abstract: Optical recording and record elements are provided. The elements comprise a write-once amorphous thin-film optical recording layer of an alloy having a composition within a polygon in a ternary composition diagram of antimony, zinc, and tin; wherein(a) the composition diagram is according to FIG.

Abstract: A method of laser marking ceramic materials, glazes, glass ceramics and glasses that contain at least one radiation-sensitive additive, utilizing a laser beam as radiation energy source which is either applied to, or focused on, the surface of the material to be marked in accordance with the form of the graphic symbols to be reproduced, such that a change in color is induced at the irradiated areas, wherein the wavelength of said laser beam used as energy source is in the near UV and/or visible range and/or infra-red range, and the radiation-sensitive additive is an inorganic pigment.

Abstract: An optical memory disk for laser recorded optical information featuring a gelatin layer having a thin black crust at the top of the layer. The crust is formed by developed black irregular oblong silver particles within the top 0.5 micron of a gelatin colloid matrix. The remainder of the colloid matrix is substantially clear gelatin and a reflective metallic layer is disposed below the gelatin. The disk may be pre-patterned during formation of the crust with control indicia, such as servo track guides or timing marks. User data may be recorded by modification of the black silver particles in the crust with a laser to expose the reflective underlayer. A laser or other light source is used to read data on the medium with optical contrast between the black surface and the reflective metallic layer underlying the gelatin layer which can be observed in the recorded spots.

Abstract: A medium in tape form for laser recorded optical information featuring a gelatin layer having a thin black crust at the top of the layer. The crust is formed by developed black irregular silver particles within the top 0.5 micron of a gelatin colloid matrix. The remainder of the colloid matrix is substantially clear gelatin and a reflective metallic layer is disposed below the gelatin. The tape may be disposed on reels and may be pre-patterned during formation of the crust with indicia, such as servo track guides or timing marks. User data may be recorded by modification of the black silver particles in the crust with a laser to expose the reflective underlayer. A laser or other light source is used to read data on the medium with optical contrast between the black surface and the reflective metallic layer underlying the gelatin layer which can be observed in the recorded spots.

Abstract: A dry electronic method of developing a latent image from exposed conventional photographic film. The film is exposed to a laser light beam having low intensity time-intensity energy integral that is sufficient to raise the energy level in the light sensitive crystals in the film to a condition of energy saturation. The image is extracted by detecting and recording the quanta of energy absorbed by the crystals at each incremental area of the image.

Abstract: A disk-shaped recording medium of the invention has a photosensitive recording layer formed on a substrate. Tellurium oxide clusters are dispersed in a hydrocarbon matrix of the recording layer so as to thermally stabilize the matrix. Tellurium clusters are dispersed in the matrix which is thermally stabilized by dispersion of the tellurium oxide clusters. The recording layer has excellent oxidation and heat resistance. The recording medium is manufactured by a plasma sputtering technique.

Abstract: The process for improving radiant energy sensitivity of a film base coated with a dispersion of a normally crystalline polyacetylenic compound in a non-solvating liquid which is dried on the film surface; said polyacetylenic compound preferably having at least two conjugated acetylenic linkages and containing from 20 to 60 carbon atoms. The process comprises dispersing said normally crystalline polyacetylenic compound in the non-solvating liquid to a concentration of from about 2 to about 50% polyacetylene crystalline solids and ageing said dispersion by (a) storing at a temperature of between about 0.degree. C. and about 12.degree. C. for a period of from about 1 to about 30 days or (b) freezing said dispersion at a temperature between about -78.degree. C. and about -1.degree. C. for a period of from about 1 to about 75 hours or (c) a combination of the above ageing techniques any or all of which are completed before drying said dispersion on a substrate.

Abstract: Provided is an information recording medium and a method for recording information thereon. The information layer of the recording medium comprises a naphthalocyanine chromophore, e.g., a sulfonamidonaphthalocyanine having silicon or germanium as the central hetero atom. Information can thereby be readily recorded via a thermal deformation technique due to the effective absorption by the dye of light in the wavelength range of about 760-850 nm. The naphthalocyanine chromophores exhibit excellent chemical and photolytic stability, their use thereby increasing the useful life of the recording medium.Provided herein are also novel naphthalocyanine chromophore compounds which are useful in optical recording media, and which exhibit exceptional solubility characteristics. Such chromophores are thereby readily applied as a film in the formulation of an information recording medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical recording medium for effecting writing of information by means of recording light such as laser and reproduction or reading of the recorded information by means of reproduction or reading light, and provides an optical recording medium designed to prevent any degradation of the properties by the reading light and any lowering of writing sensitivity and reading S/N ratios. The optical recording medium including a recording layer 2 on a substrate 1 is characterized in that the recording layer 2 contains a mixture of a cyanine dye with a combination of cyanine dye cation with quencher anion.

Abstract: A recording element comprising, as the optical recording layer, an amorphous thin film of an alloy having the formula:(Ge.sub.x Te.sub.1-x).sub.1-z Ti.sub.zwherein, on an atom-to-atom basis,x is from 0.33 to 0.55, andz is greater than zero up to 0.30 is disclosed.

Abstract: A sheet containing an integrated-directional, half-tone image. Each sheet may contain one or more such images. Also a method for forming such images in microlens sheetings comprising directly a highly collimated light through an interposed half-tone mask.

Abstract: In order to be able, in a simple manner, to erase, by heating, data recorded on bodies with reversible, temperature-variable light extinctions, and then to be able to use the body anew for the recording of data, these bodies consists of at least one polymer material and/or resin matrix material (A) and at least one organic low-molecular substance (B), which is insoluble, at least partially, in the latter and which is contained therein as a dispersed second phase, whereby the pair of materials (A/B) possess variable light extinctions below a specific temperature (T.sub.0) in dependence on a previous heating above T.sub.0 and are so constituted that, upon being heated above a conversion temperature (T.sub.2) which lies above T.sub.0, and being cooled off subsequently to below T.sub.0, yields maximum light extinction; and, upon being heated in the state of maximum light extinction to a temperature (T.sub.1) which lies above T.sub.0 and below T.sub.2, and subsequent cooling off to below T.sub.

Abstract: An enhanced optically sensitive medium is disclosed which uses an organic charge transfer complex as the switching material. The organic charge transfer complex includes at least one moiety in an oxidized state. An enhancement mechanism is taught which provides a secondary source of neutral molecules of said at least one constituent moiety in the neutral or altered oxidation state. For example, with CuTCNQ used as the switching material, the erasing characteristics can be improved by using a covering dispersion having a matrix polymer interspersed with neutral molecules of TCNQ.degree..

Abstract: The invention relates to high energy beam-sensitive glass articles exhibiting insensitivity and/or inertness to actinic radiation, i.e., glass articles which are darkened and/or colored within a thin surface layer of, e.g., about 0.1-3 .mu.m upon exposure to a high energy beam, electron beam, and ion beams in particular, without a subsequent development step, and which need no fixing to stabilize the colored image, since both the recorded image and the glass article are sensitive to radiation in the spectral range of uv and longer wavelengths. More particularly, the instant invention is concerned with Ag.sup.+ ion-exchanged glass articles having base glass within alkali metal silicate composition fields containing at least one of the oxides of transition metals which have one to four d-electrons in an atomic state. Whereas the base glass composition can be varied widely, spontaneous reduction as well as photo-reduction of Ag.sup.

Abstract: A laser beam records a digital representation of a medical picture and medical information on an optical data storage strip. The strip is adhered to a medium containing an eye readable picture generated from the same data, such as X-ray pictures, CAT-scan pictures, ultrasonic or NMR images. The medical information may be the image itself, a description or diagnosis related to the picture.

Abstract: A diazo-type thermosensitive recording material is disclosed, which comprises a support material and a thermosensitive coloring layer formed on the support material, which thermosensitive coloring layer comprises a diazonium compound, a coupler and a thermo-fusible or thermo-softening material, the coupler being a combination of a hydrazone-type coupler of the formula of R.sup.1 --NH--N.dbd.CH--R.sup.2 (wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are defined in detail in the specification) and a two-valence metal compound capable of chelating with the coupled product produced by the coupling of the diazonium compound and the hydrazone-type coupler.

Abstract: This invention relates to an optical information recording medium having an organic thin film recording layer, and optionally having an underlayer and/or protective layer, characterized in that at least one of said recording layer, underlayer and protective layer contains a compound expressed by the general formula (1), ##STR1## wherein R represents hydrogen or a lower alkyl group; X represents acid anion; m represents 0, 1 or 2; and A represents ##STR2## (n being 1 or 2) or ##STR3## (when m is 2); all the aromatic rings optionally having a substituent selected from the group of a lower alkyl group, lower alkoxy group, halogen and hydroxyl group.

Abstract: This invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a heat-sensitive recording layer which is formed over the substrate and which contains a diazonium salt, a coupler and at least one of specific heat-fusible basic amidine and diamidine compounds in which the nitrogen atom(s) of ##STR1## moiety(moieties) has(have) a substituent and the nitrogen atom(s) or ##STR2## moiety(moieties) has(have) at least one substituent, the substituent being independently selected from the group consisting of phenyl, naphthyl, phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl and naphthyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, each optionally substituted with C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, phenyloxy, nitro or halogen, and in which amidine compounds are other than formamidines. The heat-sensitive recording material is especially excellent in storage stability.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium which comprises the provision of a thin film (recording layer) formed of a cyanine coloring matter and a transition metal complex being superior in long wavelength range light absorbability to said coloring matter on a transparent or opaque substrate and which permits writing and reading by using laser beam.

Abstract: A recording medium suitable for writing and reading out information by irradiating a photobeam onto a recording layer at a relatively low power, includes a light transmissible substrate, a light transmissible subbing layer, and a recording layer. The recording layer includes a radiation transmissible substrate, a radiation transmissible subbing layer composed of an inorganic material laminated on the substrate, and a recording layer composed of a sublimable organic substance layer laminated on the subbing layer and a metal layer laminated on the organic layer.

Abstract: A method for the optical recording of information in which a recording layer 4 of In.sub.x Sb.sub.1-x, Ga.sub.x Sb.sub.1-x or (InSb).sub.y Se.sub.1-y, wherein 0.4.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.6 and 0.7.ltoreq.1.0, or mixtures thereof, provided on a synthetic resin substrate (2) (FIG. 1) in a maximum layer thickness of 150 nm is exposed to infrared laser light having a wavelength of 750-900 nm which is pulsated in accordance with the binary information to be recorded with a pulse time of at most 200 ns, a crystalline area 6 (bit) having maximum dimensions of a few micrometers being formed in the amorphous layer in the exposed places, as well as an optical recording element used in the method.

Abstract: A laser-imageable assembly comprising a transparent substrate having on a surface thereof an energy absorbent transfer layer comprising particles which absorb laser energy dispersed in a heterogeneous resin layer. Heterogeneity may be achieved by appropriately drying the coated substrate.The assembly may also comprise one or more additional layers of primer, protective and lubricant coatings.A preferred assembly comprises a polyester substrate with a graphite-containing heterogeneous transfer layer.

Abstract: A solid, nonpolymeric amorphous mixture of compounds which is useful as a binder in optical recording layers and elements is disclosed. The mixture comprises at least two different compounds each having at least two linking components joining one multivalent organic nucleus with at least two organic nuclei wherein at least one of the multivalent organic nucleus and the organic nuclei is multicyclic. Methods for making such mixtures are also disclosed.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium comprising a substrate and a photosensitive thin layer consisting of Te, O and Pd. When exposed to optical energy, this thin layer is capable of undergoing a phase change by which an optical transmittance is changed. The addition of Pd results in an improvement of a response time to a great extent. This optical information recording medium is preferably made by a method using a Pd evaporation source and another source for Te+TeO.sub.2.

Abstract: A recording medium utilizing metal azides as an energy amplifying substance is disclosed. A photosensitive material comprises an energy absorptive dye and a metal azide dispersed in an inert binder. Low to moderate pulses of laser light cause the azide particles to react exothermally creating a void in the photosensitive material which can be read by an optical readout device.

Abstract: An optical recording element comprising a support having coated thereon a smoothing layer that is a crosslinked homopolymer in which the polymerized, crosslinked recurring unit is derived from a single monomer having the structure ##STR1## Q represents --CH.sub.2).sub.n O or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n ; P represents a benzene or cyclohexane nucleus;R represents ##STR2## or --O--; R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or methyl;n is 2 to 10; andm is 2 to 4.

Abstract: Metallic salts of organic charge-transfer agents, such as TCNQ, TNAP, TCNE and DDQ and their derivatives, can be processed by an electron beam for a variety of useful electronic and optical applications. The metallic charge transfer salts can be used to deposit high resolution conductive lines directly without developing solutions or subsequent metallization steps. The compounds can also be employed in the conventional manner as resists for doping (i.e., ion diffusion or implantation) and to diffuse metals into substrates. In particular, electronic devices, optical devices and image-storage devices are disclosed which can be formed by simple electron beam processed of metal charge-transfer salt films deposited on substrates.

Abstract: A radiation-sensitive, imageable article comprises in sequence a substrate, a vapor-deposited colorant layer capable of providing an optical density of at least 0.3 to 10 nm band of the electromagnetic spectrum between 280 and 900 nm, and a vapor-deposited graded metal/metal oxide or metal sulfide layer.

Abstract: The laser imaging material comprises a laser-transparent support layer of, for example, polyester. A first overlying layer is laser-transparent and formed from a binder that is instantaneously thermally-chemically-decomposable with the production of a gas, for example, an acrylic or methacrylic homopolymer or copolymer, a cellulosic polymer, or a homopolymer or copolymer of stryene. A second overlying layer is formed from such a material, the same as or different from that of the first overlying layer, pigmented with carbon black. Upon laser irradiation through the support layer 10, selected portions of the carbon black are transferred to a suitable receptor surface such as paper or a lithographic plate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical information recording member which permits recording of optical information at a high speed and high density by means of energy of light or heat, as well as a high speed reproduction of the recorded information. The optical information recording member has a thin film formed on a substrate which thin film is made of TeOx constituted by a mixture of Te and TeO.sub.2 with a small amount of Au being added such that the contents of Te, O and Au in the thin film falls within a predetermined region limited in terms of atomic percent. The optical information recording member of the invention having the thin film of Te-O-Au system permits the information to be recorded in quite a short time thus allowing quite high speed of recording and reproduction as compared with the conventional recording film of TeOx system. The optical information recording member of the invention also brings about a higher recording sensitivity and a higher C/N ratio.

Abstract: A diazo-type thermosensitive recording material comprising a support material, a thermosensitive coloring layer formed thereon, which thermosensitive coloring layer comprises a diazonium compound layer containing a diazonium compound, and a coupler layer containing a coupler, and of the diazonium compound layer and the coupler layer, at least the lower layer near the support material further containing a thermo-fusible material and a water-insoluble binder agent, and in any portions other than the diazonium compound layer of the thermosensitive recording material, an imidazole derivative of the following formula being contained: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a higher alkyl group, preferably with 6 to 24 carbon atoms, an alkoxyl or hydroxyalkyl group derived from the above higher alkyl group; R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently represent hydrogen, a phenyl group, a benzyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, an hydroxyalkyl group or a cyanoalkyl group.

Abstract: A laser beam scanner system records medical information on a direct-read-after-write optical data storage strip. The strip is adhered to a medium containing a picture, such as X-ray pictures, CAT-scan pictures, ultrasonic or NMR images, or microscope photos of tissue samples. The strip may record information such as a description or diagnosis related to the picture for archival storage.

Abstract: A method is described for photoetching polyimides efficiently, and without the need for any chemical development steps. At least 1000.ANG. of the polyimide are removed by irradiation of the polyimide with ultraviolet radiation having wavelengths less than 220 nm. To enhance the process, the power density of the radiation is greater than about 60 mJ/cm.sup.2. The presence of an atmosphere containing oxygen enhances the etch rate, although photoetching will occur in other atmospheres.

Abstract: A multi-layer optical record blank and information record comprises a light-reflective layer, a light-transmissive layer, a light-absorptive layer, and a heat-sensitive information layer wherein the thicknesses of the layers are chosen to achieve a low-reflection condition. Information is recorded as variations of an optical property in the information layer indirectly heated by light absorbed in the absorptive layer.

Abstract: The use of photosensitive compositions of matter for electroless deposition of metals, containing(a) 0.1 to 20 percent by weight of a compound of the formula I ##STR1## in which Y and R.sub.1 to R.sub.6 are as defined in patent claim 1, (b) 70 to 99.8% by weight of a polymer with H donor groups and an average molecular weight of at least 2,000 Daltons, or of a polymer mixture of a polymer component with H donor groups and an average molecular weight of at least 2,000 Daltons and a second polymer component with an average molecular weight of at least 3,000 Daltons, and(c) 0.1 to 10% by weight of one or more salts of a metal of group Ib or VIII of the periodic table.Images, in particular electrically conductive coatings or patterns, can be produced with the above compositions of matter by exposing the compositions of matter to light and then depositing a metal on the zero-valent, non-conductive metal nuclei thereby formed.

Abstract: A resist film comprises a dimensionally stable base (B), which is transparent to actinic light in the wavelength range from 300 to 420 nm, and a mask-forming layer (ML) which is sensitive to heat radiation and contains a thermochromic system which, when irradiated with an IR laser having a wavelength greater than 1.00 .mu.m, undergoes an irreversible change in its absorption spectrum in the wavelength range from 300 to 420 nm so that the optical density of the mask-forming layer (ML) in this wavelength range changes by not less than 1.3 units. The base of the resist film can also be applied onto the photosensitive relief-forming layer (RL) of a recording material to give a multilayer image-recording material. Imagewise irradiation with heat, for example using an IR laser, produces, in the mask-forming layer (ML) of the resist film, a UV photomask which is very useful for exposing photosensitive recording materials.

Abstract: A recording element comprising a support having thereon a heat-deformable optical recording layer having a transparent ceramic overcoat characterized in that the overcoat has a thickness up to about 0.05 .mu.m is disclosed.

Abstract: Imaging films and film-forming compositions are provided which include a reducible tellurium compound, a reductant precursor, a source of labile hydrogen incorporated in a matrix. The reductant precursors are of the formulae ##STR1## where Y.sub.1 is alkoxy, Y.sub.2 is chloro or alkoxy and Y.sub.3 is hydrogen, chloro or alkoxy.Methods are provided for synthesizing the reductant precursors.

Abstract: A resist film comprises a dimensionally stable base (B), which is transparent to actinic light in the wavelength range from 300 to 420 nm, and a mask-forming layer (ML) which is sensitive to heat radiation and contains a thermochromic system which, when irradiated with an IR laser having a wavelength greater than 1.00 .mu.m, undergoes an irreversible change in its absorption spectrum in the wavelength range from 300 to 420 nm so that the optical density of the mask-forming layer (ML) in this wavelength range changes by not less than 1.3 units. The base of the resist film can also be applied onto the photosensitive relief-forming layer (RL) of a recording material to give a multilayer image-recording material. Imagewise irradiation with heat, for example using an IR laser, produces, in the mask-forming layer (ML) of the resist film, a UV photomask which is very useful for exposing photosensitive recording materials.

Abstract: A radiation imageable composition in which an image can be produced upon exposure to intense radiation is disclosed which comprises (a) hollow, ceramic microspheres, and (b) a binder material which will not be destroyed during exposure of the composition to intense radiation and will not mask the image produced upon exposure to intense radiation, wherein the binder material has an index of refraction greater than the index of refraction of the microspheres in the absence of any other dye or pigment.

Abstract: A thermal development type diazo copying material comprising a support material and a photosensitive layer formed on the support material, which photosensitive layer comprises a diazo compound, a coupling component and a thermo-fusible auxiliary coloring agent, and which coupling component is capsulated by a hydrophobic polymeric material with a softening point ranging from 50.degree. C. to 150.degree. C. selected from the group consisting of hydrophobic polyester resins, hydrophobic cellulose resins, hydrophobic polyamide resins and hydrophobic polyurethane resins.