The present invention relates to a thermal transfer film and to an organic electroluminescent device prepared using same, wherein the thermal transfer film includes a base film and an outermost layer which is formed on the base film and has 2% or more of a thickness change ratio expressed by formula 1.

Pattern transfer sheets and methods are provided for printing paste patterns (e.g., thin fingers) with a high aspect ratio and for increasing throughput in pattern transfer printing. Trenches in the pattern transfer sheets, that are configured to be filled with printing paste and to enable releasing the printing paste from the trenches onto a receiving substrate upon illumination by a laser beamare coated internally by a coating configured to disintegrate upon the illumination. The coating is configured to enhance the releasing of the pasteincreasing throughput and printing accuracy. The receiving substrate may be cleaned after paste deposition by removing disintegration products of the coating therefrom. Alternatively or complementarily, laser absorbing dye may be mixed into the printing paste to facilitate its release from the trenches.

Micro characters are expressed by a thermal fusion transfer technique. In a printed matter manufacturing method, a printed matter is manufactured by heating a thermal transfer sheet in accordance with image data, the thermal transfer sheet including a base member, a release layer disposed on the base member and containing a wavelength conversion material that emits visible light with excitation by invisible light, and a thermally fusible ink layer disposed on the release layer, and by transferring the thermally fusible ink layer to a transfer-receiving body. In this method, the image data includes a first pattern and a second pattern. The second pattern is disposed on the first pattern and has a maximum width of a predetermined value or less.

A dyeing base body to be used in a dyeing step of dyeing a resin body by heating a sublimable dye attached to the dyeing base body by electromagnetic waves to sublime the dye toward the resin body. The dyeing base body includes a metal base made in sheet form and an electromagnetic wave absorption layer formed on at least an opposite side to the side to which the dye will be attached. The electromagnetic wave absorption layer has a higher electromagnetic wave absorption rate than the base.

A dyeing base body to be used in a dyeing step of dyeing a resin body by heating a sublimable dye attached to the dyeing base body by electromagnetic waves to sublime the dye toward the resin body. The dyeing base body includes a metal base made in sheet form and an electromagnetic wave absorption layer formed on at least an opposite side to the side to which the dye will be attached. The electromagnetic wave absorption layer has a higher electromagnetic wave absorption rate than the base.

Systems and methods of permanently marking a material containing an opacification material may include marking the material with a laser system. The laser system may be an ultraviolet system, and the laser may be a solid state diode pumped and pulsed 4 watt to 55 watt unit with a minimum scan speed of 3 meters/second and a minimum frequency of 30 KHz.

The invention is directed towards a composition comprising: a near-infrared radiation absorbing compound; a colour-forming compound; and a heat transfer agent operable to facilitate heat transfer from the near-infrared radiation absorbing compound to the colour-forming compound; wherein the near-infrared radiation absorbing compound is present in an amount of 0.1-3.5 wt % of the total composition, and the heat transfer agent is present in an amount of 1-15 wt % of the total composition, and the heat transfer agent is present in the composition as solid particles. The invention further relates to substrates comprising the composition applied thereto, as well as methods of forming colour or an image on said substrates.

The present invention relates to a heat-sensitive recording material, wherein the color layer contains at least one removable dye, more particularly a dye that can be removed in the waste paper cycle; to a process for decoloring a heat-sensitive recording material in order to obtain a fibrous material mixture, comprising the steps of providing a mixture of the heat-sensitive recording material and at least one other paper type, more particularly at least one waste paper type, and subsequently decoloring the mixture in a deinking process in order to obtain a fibrous material mixture; to a fibrous material mixture obtained by means of said process; to a process for producing a recycled paper comprising the fibrous material mixture by compressing and dewatering the fibrous material mixture; and to a recycled paper which can be obtained by means of said process.

The present invention relates to a method of forming an image on a substrate comprising a transparent or translucent composition applied thereto, wherein the transparent or translucent composition comprises a protein in a non-denatured state, and the method comprises applying radiation to the transparent or translucent composition to denature the protein and thereby form an image on the substrate. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a substrate on which an image can be formed, and related substrates, compositions and uses thereof.

This disclosure provides laser markable polymerizable resin compositions comprising infrared absorbing marking additives to achieve improved laser markability of 3-D printed objects obtained from these polymerizable resin composition, and methods for marking the cured resin compositions using an infrared laser.