JPH07101313B2 - Image forming method - Google Patents

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Description: FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an image forming method using a photosensitive material having a photosensitive layer containing a silver halide, a reducing agent and a polymerizable compound on a support and an image receiving material. The present invention also relates to an image forming method using a light-sensitive material having a light-sensitive layer containing a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound on a support and an image receiving material.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION An image forming method using a light-sensitive material having a light-sensitive layer containing a silver halide, a reducing agent and a polymerizable compound on a support is disclosed in JP-B-45-11149, JP-A-47-20741 and JP-A-4741. -10697,
It is described in JP-A-57-138632 and JP-A-58-169143. In these methods, when the exposed silver halide is developed using a developer, a coexisting polymerizable compound (eg, vinyl compound) initiates polymerization to form an image-like polymer compound. Therefore, the above method requires a developing treatment using a liquid, and the treatment requires a relatively long time.

As an improvement of the above method, JP-A-61-69062 discloses a method capable of forming a polymer compound by dry treatment. In this method, a recording material (photosensitive material) having a photosensitive layer composed of a photosensitive silver salt (silver halide), a reducing agent, a crosslinkable compound (polymerizable compound) and a binder supported on a support is imagewise exposed. To form a latent image, and then heat development is performed to form a polymer compound on the portion of the photosensitive silver salt where the latent image is formed. For the dry image forming method, see JP-A-61-173145 and JP-A-61-1.
It is also described in each of the 83640 and 61-188535 publications.

These image forming methods are methods in which the polymerizable compound in the portion where the latent image of silver halide is formed is polymerized.

Further, there is a method capable of polymerizing a polymerizable compound in a portion where a latent image of silver halide is not formed, as disclosed in JP-A-61-260.
It is described in Japanese Patent No. 241. In this method, by heating, a reducing agent acts on the portion where the latent image of silver halide is formed to suppress the polymerization of the polymerizable compound, and at the same time, promotes the polymerization of other portions.

The image forming method using a photosensitive material having a photosensitive layer containing a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound on a support forms a polymer compound in the exposed portion by imagewise exposure. Regarding the image forming method and the light-sensitive material used therefor, see JP-A-52-89915 and JP-A-57-179836.
No. 58-88739, No. 58-88740, and No. 60-259490.

As one aspect of the image forming orientation as described above, after a polymer compound is imagewise formed on a photosensitive material, an unpolymerized polymerizable compound (or photopolymerizable compound) is formed in a state where the photosensitive material and the image receiving material are superposed. Composition or photopolymerizable compound, the same applies hereinafter)
There is a method of forming an image on the image receiving material by transferring the image to the image receiving material. In the transfer type image forming method, a photosensitive material containing silver halide and a polymerizable compound in microcapsules, or a photosensitive material containing a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound in microcapsules is particularly preferably used. . Regarding the transfer type image forming method, JP-A-61-73145, JP-A-58-88739, JP-A-58-88740,
It is described in each publication of the same 60-259490.

On the other hand, as the support for the image-receiving material, paper may be used because it is inexpensive and easy to dispose of, and lightweight and easy to handle. However, when an image is obtained on the image-receiving material by the above-mentioned transfer type image forming method using a paper support, when the transfer pressure is low, the concentration of the polymerizable compound is low in the region to which the polymerizable compound is to be transferred. There was a case where transfer unevenness was generated to some extent. Also, when the image used for imagewise exposure has gradation even if the transfer pressure is high, and when uneven transfer occurs in the part where the transfer density is low due to exposure from the original of the halftone to high density part. was there.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an image forming method in which the above-mentioned transfer unevenness hardly occurs even though a paper support is used as the image receiving material.

In the present invention, a light-sensitive material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer containing a silver halide, a reducing agent, a polymerizable compound and a color image-forming substance is imagewise exposed to form a silver halide latent image. By performing development processing simultaneously with or after imagewise exposure, and applying pressure to the developed photosensitive material with an image receiving material having an image receiving layer on a paper support superposed thereon. An image forming method of transferring a color image-forming substance to an image receiving material together with an uncured polymerizable compound, wherein the paper support of the image receiving material is made by using a shake during paper making, thereby producing a He-Ne laser. The total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by scanning is 15
The present invention provides an image forming method, which is a paper support using a base paper having a formation distribution of not more than%.

Further, in the present invention, a photosensitive material comprising a support and a photosensitive layer containing a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound and a color image forming substance is imagewise exposed, and then imagewise exposed. The color image forming substance is transferred to the image receiving material together with the uncured photopolymerizable composition or the photopolymerizable compound by pressurizing the image receiving material having the image receiving layer on the paper support in superposition on the photosensitive material. An image forming method, wherein the paper support of the above-mentioned image receiving material is manufactured by using a shake at the time of papermaking, whereby the total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by He-Ne laser scanning is 15
There is also provided an image forming method characterized by being a paper support using a base paper having a formation distribution of not more than%.

Incidentally, the present invention is a photosensitive material containing a silver halide, a polymerizable compound and a color image forming substance in microcapsules,
Alternatively, a particularly remarkable effect is obtained in an embodiment in which a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound and a light-sensitive material in which a color image-forming substance is contained in microcapsules are used.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION The image forming method of the present invention is characterized in that a base paper having the above-mentioned formation distribution is used for the paper support of the image receiving material.

According to the study by the present inventors, the occurrence of the transfer unevenness as described above when the image receiving material having the paper support is used is
The problem can be solved by using a paper support using a base paper having a uniform formation distribution defined above. That is, when a base paper having a non-uniform texture distribution is used, the texture is low when the transfer pressure is high and the image used for imagewise exposure has gradation even when the transfer pressure is high. It has been found that the unevenness of the transfer pressure distribution occurs due to the unevenness, and as a result, the above-described transfer unevenness occurs on the image receiving material.

The image forming method of the present invention comprises a He-N
eBecause a base paper with a uniform distribution such that the total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by laser scanning is 15% or less is used, even if it is the case described above, the occurrence of transfer unevenness is small and clear. A transfer image can be obtained.

In addition, a photosensitive material containing a silver halide, a polymerizable compound and a color image forming substance in a microcapsule, or a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound, and a photosensitive material containing a color image forming substance in a microcapsule In this mode, the uncured microcapsules (the polymerizable compound, or the photopolymerizable composition or the photopolymerizable compound is in an unpolymerized state) are destroyed by the transfer pressure during image formation. Therefore, in the mode using the microcapsules as described above, when the transfer pressure distribution becomes uneven, the microcapsules are also broken, and the transfer unevenness is further amplified. When the paper support according to the present invention is used as the support of the image receiving material, the occurrence of unevenness in the broken state of the microcapsules can be reduced. As a result of the above, the present invention can obtain particularly remarkable effects in the mode using the microcapsules as described above.

Detailed Description of the Invention The image receiving material used in the image forming method of the present invention has a paper support. In the present specification, the “paper support” means a base paper containing wood pulp as a main component (abbreviated as “base paper” in the present specification), or a sheet-like material provided with an arbitrary coating layer on the base paper.

The base paper used for the paper support of the image receiving material of the present invention has a formation distribution such that the total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by He-Ne laser scanning is 15% or less. In the present invention, the total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by the He-Ne laser scanning is the value of the total variation rate (%) measured using a sheet formation tester manufactured by Toyo Seiki Co., Ltd. To do. The outline of the measuring method using the sheet formation tester is described below.

The device of the sheet formation tester consists of an optical part (laser light source, mirror, detection element, etc.) and a measuring part (signal amplification /
Conversion, analysis A / D conversion, data processing, etc.).

A He-Ne laser (λ = 632.8 nm) is used as the light source, and the laser beam focused by the collimation lens is applied to the vibrating mirror via the reflecting mirror.

The vibration oscillating with a triangular wave with a frequency of 6.25 Hz and the light beam oscillated left and right by the mirror are reflected in parallel and perpendicularly by the scan mirror (arcuate mirror), and scan the sample paper surface placed on the reciprocating stage. .

The spot diameter of the light beam scanning the paper is about 0.
Since the stage moves at a constant velocity of 1 mm in a width of 160 mm, the locus has a triangular wave shape.

Further, the light beam transmitted through the paper is incident on the light receiving element (silicon photocell) mounted on the upper part.

The light receiving element converts the fluctuation of the transmitted light into an electric current. The detection signal waveform is a complicated waveform including various frequency components due to the basis weight variation (texture unevenness) of each part of the paper scanned by the light beam. This waveform is a formation signal representing the formation, and when the scanning speed of the light spot of the beam is v by this formation signal, the formation unevenness can be expressed as a wavelength l. Therefore, the frequency f corresponding to this is It can be calculated by the formula (I).

f = v / l (Hz) (I) The device converts the current obtained by the light receiving element as a ground signal into voltage, amplifies and corrects the level, and then 25 to 1250
Pass the filter arranged in 1/3 octave between 0Hz,
The size of the unevenness is expressed as a wavelength and is decomposed into frequency components corresponding to the respective wavelengths.

As a result of this frequency analysis, the size of unevenness is 80 nm (25 Hz), 63
(31.5), 50 (40), 40 (50), 32 (63), 25 (80),
20 (100), 16 (125), 12.5 (160), 10 (200), 8
(250), 6.3 (315), 5 (400), 4 (500), 3.2 (63
0), 2.5 (800), 2 (1000), 1.6 (1250), 1.3 (160
0), 1 (2000), 0.8 (2500), 0.6 (3150), 0.5 (40
00), 0.4 (5000), 0.3 (6300), 0.25 (8000), 0.2
It is possible to obtain 28 points of (10000) and 0.16 (12500), digitize the variation of transmitted light with respect to the size of each unevenness, and perform data processing by the microcomputer.

The coefficient of variation FT (f ₁ ) corresponding to each frequency component,
FT (f ₂ ) ・ ・ ・ FT (f ₂₅ ) [f ₁ = 25Hz, f ₂ = 31.7H
z ... f ₂₅ = 12500 Hz] can be obtained by the following formula (II).

(In the above formula (II), f (t) is the light transmittance at a place on the paper surface.) Further, the total variation coefficient (TOTAL) of the formation unevenness is obtained by the following formula (III).

The base paper used for the paper support of the image receiving material of the present invention has a formation distribution such that the total variation coefficient obtained as described above is 15% or less. More preferably, the total coefficient of variation is 10% or less.

Further, the base paper used for the paper support of the image receiving material of the present invention is
The laser light transmittance distribution curve 12.5, 16, 20, 25, 32,
It is preferable that the total variation coefficient of each filtered distribution curve obtained through each of 40, 50, 63 and 80 mm filters is 7% or less. That is, according to the study by the present inventors, it was found that, among the unevenness of the formation distribution, the formation unevenness having a wavelength of 12.5 mm to 80 mm is particularly likely to cause the above-mentioned transfer unevenness. The total variation coefficient of each of the above-mentioned filtered distribution curves is more preferably 5% or less. The total coefficient of variation (TOTAL ') of each of the above-mentioned filtered distribution curves is obtained by the following formula (III').

For the measurement method using the sheet formation tester as described above, see Convertec March 1986 41.
Page 43 and Monthly "Instrumentation" December 1980, Vol. 23, No. 12 (reprinted in Volume 273).

Hereinafter, the constitution of the paper support used in the present invention and the specific means for keeping the formation distribution within the specified range described above will be described.

The base paper used for the paper support is produced by making wood pulp as a main raw material and making paper. As wood pulp, LBKP, NB
Any of KP, LBSP, NBSP, LDP, NDP, LUKP, NUKP can be used, but LBKP, LBSP, NBSP, LD with a large amount of short fibers
It is preferable to use a large amount of P and NDP. In particular, LBSP with a large amount of short fibers before beating and more likely to be made shorter by beating
And / or LDP is preferably used in an amount of 5% by weight or more. However, in order to maintain the paper strength as a paper support,
The amount of LBSP and / or LDP used is preferably 60% by weight or less.

In addition, if necessary, part of the wood pulp may be other plant fiber pulp such as straw, esparto, bagasse, or kenaf, synthetic pulp made of polyethylene, polypropylene, or synthetic fiber made of vinylon, polyester, acrylic fiber, or the like. May be replaced with

In beating pulp, the freeness is 200 to
It is preferable to beat it to 400 cc, 250 to 35
It is more preferable to beat it so that it becomes 0 cc. A beater, a conical refiner, or a disc refiner is preferably used as the beater. A Jordan type conical refiner is particularly preferable.
When a commonly used disc refiner is used, it is preferable to adjust the beating plate, the number of revolutions of the disc, the beating load, the pulp concentration during beating, the pulp flow rate, and the like.

The base paper used for the paper support of the image-receiving material of the present invention is a fiber length distribution of the base paper produced according to JIS-, by selecting the type of raw material pulp as described above, adjusting the beating method of the pulp, and the like.
As the fiber length distribution defined by P-8207, the sum of the weight% of the 24-mesh residue and the weight% of the 42-mesh residue is 30 to 30.
It is preferably 60%. The weight percentage of the 24-mesh residue is more preferably 10% or less.

The fiber length distribution defined by JIS-P-8207 (screening pulp screening test method) is 10 g as an absolute dry weight.
After thoroughly disintegrating the sample of No. 2 using a standard disintegrator, perform a pulp sieving tester (commercially available from Toyo Seiki Seisakusho Co., Ltd.) for 15 minutes to disintegrate
Mesh (nominal size; 710μ), 42 mesh (same 350)
μ), 80 mesh (177μ), 150 mesh (105)
(μ) is obtained as a percentage (wt%) with respect to the original sample weight for each residue in the four layers. Therefore, the small amount of the 24-mesh residue and the amount of the 42-mesh residue mean that the raw paper has a small amount of long fibers.

It is preferable to internally add a dispersant to the base paper. Examples of preferable dispersants include polyethylene oxide, hydroxyethyl cellulose and polyacrylamide.

In addition to the above-mentioned dispersants, various internal additives can be added to the base paper. Examples of internal additives include fillers such as calcium carbonate, talc, clay, kaolin, titanium dioxide, urea resin fine particles; rosin, paraffin wax, higher fatty acid salts, alkenyl succinates, fatty acid anhydrides, alkyl ketene dimers, etc. Internally added sizing agent; paper strength enhancer such as starch, polyvinyl alcohol, melamine formaldehyde condensate; reaction product of maleic anhydride copolymer and polyalkylene polyamine; softening agent such as quaternary ammonium salt of higher fatty acid; sulfuric acid A fixing agent such as a band, a colored dye, a fluorescent dye and the like can be mentioned.

As the base paper used for the paper support of the image receiving material of the present invention, the base paper as described above can be used and can be produced by a Fourdrinier paper machine or a cylinder paper machine. It is particularly preferable to use a Fourdrinier paper machine. A shake is used during the above papermaking. The jet / wire ratio (ratio of stock jet to wire speed) during papermaking is preferably 0.9 to 1.0. Furthermore, it is preferable to use dandy rolls at the time of papermaking.

The basis weight of the base paper is preferably 20 to 200 g / m ² , 30
It is particularly preferable that it is from 100 to 100 g / m ² . Base paper thickness is 2
The thickness is preferably 5 to 250 μm, and particularly preferably 40 to 150 μm.

The base paper is preferably subjected to a calender treatment such as an on-machine calender in a paper machine or a super calender after paper making for the purpose of improving smoothness. From the above calendar processing, the density of the base paper is JI
It is preferable to be defined by 0.7 to 1.2 g / m ² of S-P-8118, it is particularly preferable to be 0.85 to 1.10 g / m ^2.

Manufacturing method of the base paper as described above, particularly by adjusting the fiber length distribution of the base paper, the use of a dispersant, by adjusting the papermaking method, the formation distribution of the base paper to be produced, laser obtained by He-Ne laser scanning The distribution can be such that the total variation coefficient of the light transmittance distribution curve is 15% or less.

As the image receiving material used in the image forming method of the present invention, the base paper as described above can be used as it is as a paper support. However, a base paper provided with a coating layer of a hydrophobic polymer on one surface or both surfaces is used. More preferably, it is used as a support. The coating layer of the hydrophobic polymer may be provided on one side or both sides of the raw paper as a constitution in which a plurality of layers are laminated.

A known surface sizing agent may be applied to the surface of the raw paper and a coating layer of a hydrophobic polymer may be provided thereon. Examples of the surface sizing agent include polyvinyl alcohol, starch, polyacrylamide, gelatin, casein, styrene maleic anhydride copolymer, alkyl ketene dimer, polyurethane, epoxidized fatty acid amide and the like. The hydrophobic polymer used in the coating layer is preferably a polymer having a glass transition point of -20 ° C to 50 ° C. The polymer may be a homopolymer or a copolymer. Further, in the case of the copolymer, it may have a hydrophilic repeating unit in a part thereof as long as it is hydrophobic as a whole. Examples of the above hydrophobic polymer include vinylidene chloride, styrene-butadiene copolymer, methylmethacrylate-butadiene copolymer, acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer, styrene-acrylic acid ester copolymer, methylmethacrylate-acrylic acid ester copolymer, and styrene. -Methacrylate-acrylic acid ester copolymer and the like can be mentioned.

It is more preferable to form a crosslinked structure in the hydrophobic polymer. In order to form a crosslinked structure in the hydrophobic polymer, a known curing agent (crosslinking agent) may be used together with the hydrophobic polymer during the production of the paper support. Examples of the curing agent include active vinyl compounds such as 1,3-bis (vinylsulfonyl) -2-propanol and methylene bismaleimide; 2,4-dichloro-6-hydroxy-S-triazine sodium salt, 2 , 4-dichloro-6-hydroxy-S
-Triazine, N, N'-bis (2-chloroethylcarbamyl) piperazine and other active halogen compounds; bis (2,
3-epoxypropyl) methylpropyl ammonium
Examples thereof include epoxy compounds such as p-toluenesulfonate; and methanesulfonic acid ester compounds such as 1,2-di (methanesulfonoxy) ethane.

The coating layer of hydrophobic polymer has improved smoothness of the coating layer,
A pigment may be added for the purpose of facilitating layer formation during production. As the pigment, a known coated paper (coated paper,
Pigments used for art paper, baryta paper, etc.) can be used. Examples of pigments include titanium dioxide, barium sulfate, talc, clay, kaolin, calcined kaolin,
Examples thereof include inorganic pigments such as aluminum hydroxide, amorphous silica, crystalline silica, and synthetic alumina silica; and organic pigments such as polystyrene resin, acrylic resin, and urea-formalin resin.

A water resistant agent may be further added to the coating layer of the hydrophobic polymer. Examples of the waterproofing agent include polyamide polyamine epichlorohydrin resin, polyamide polyurea resin, and glyoxal resin. Of these, formalin-free polyamide polyamine epichlorohydrin resin and polyamide polyurea resin are particularly preferable.

The coating layer of the hydrophobic polymer as described above can be easily formed by coating the above-mentioned base paper with the latex-like coating liquid in which the components such as the hydrophobic polymer, the curing agent, the pigment and the waterproofing agent are dissolved, dispersed or emulsified. Can be provided. As a method for applying the coating liquid onto the base paper, a known dip coating method, air knife coating method, curtain coating method, roller coating method, doctor coating method, gravure coating method or the like can be used.

The coating layer of the hydrophobic polymer is preferably provided on the base paper in a coating amount of 3 g / m ² or more (total amount when a plurality of layers are provided). A more preferable coating amount is 5 to 30 g / m ² .

For the purpose of improving the smoothness of the paper support, a calender treatment such as a gloss calender or a super calender may be carried out during or after the coating of the coating layer.

The image receiving layer provided on the paper support as described above will be described below.

The image-receiving layer can be formed in an arbitrary form using various compounds according to the color-developing system of the color image-forming substance described later and the like.

For example, when a color-developing system comprising a color-developing agent and a color-developing agent is used, the image-receiving layer may contain the color-developing agent. Further, the image receiving tank may be configured as a layer containing at least one mordant. The mordant can be selected from compounds known in the photographic art and the like in consideration of conditions such as the type of color image forming substance and used. If necessary, a plurality of mordants having different mordant powers may be used to form two or more image receiving layers.

It is preferable that the image receiving layer contains a polymer as a binder. As the binder, the binder that can be used in the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material described above can be used. Further, a polymer having low oxygen permeability may be used as a binder as in the image receiving material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53879.

The image-receiving layer may contain fine particles of a thermoplastic compound like the image-receiving materials described in Japanese Patent Application Nos. 61-124952 and 61-124953. Further, a white pigment such as titanium dioxide may be added to the image receiving layer so that the image receiving layer functions as a white reflective layer. Further, a photopolymerization initiator or a thermal polymerization initiator may be added to the image receiving layer for the purpose of polymerizing the unpolymerized polymerizable compound. The image receiving material having an image receiving layer containing a photopolymerization initiator is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-3025.
Image-receiving materials having an image-receiving layer containing a thermal polymerization initiator are described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55502.

When the image receiving layer is located on the surface of the image receiving material, it is preferable to further provide a protective layer. Japanese Patent Application Sho 61-555
Like the image receiving material described in the specification No. 03, a layer composed of an aggregate of fine particles of a thermoplastic compound may be provided on the image receiving layer.

The imagewise exposure of the photosensitive material, the developing treatment, and the transfer of the image to the image receiving material in the image forming method will be sequentially described below.

Although various exposure means can be used for imagewise exposure of the light-sensitive material, a latent image of silver halide is generally obtained by imagewise exposure of radiation including visible light. The type of light source and the amount of exposure can be selected according to the photosensitive wavelength of silver halide (wavelength sensitized when dye sensitization is performed) and sensitivity. The original image may be a monochrome image or a color image. In the photosensitive material using the photopolymerizable composition or the photopolymerizable compound, the polymerizable compound in the portion exposed by the imagewise exposure is polymerized.

A light-sensitive material having a photosensitive layer containing silver halide is subjected to a developing treatment simultaneously with the imagewise exposure or after the imagewise exposure. The light-sensitive material may be subjected to development processing using a developing solution described in JP-B-45-11149. As described above, the method described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-69062, in which heat development is performed, has an advantage that the operation is simple and the processing can be performed in a short time because it is a dry processing. Therefore, the latter is particularly excellent in the development processing of the photosensitive material.

As a heating method in the heat development treatment, various conventionally known methods can be used. Further, like the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 60-135568, the light-sensitive material may be provided with a heating element layer and used as a heating means.
Further, as in the image forming method described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55506, the heat development treatment may be carried out while suppressing the amount of oxygen present in the photosensitive layer. Heating temperature is generally 80 ℃
The temperature is 200 ° C, preferably 100 ° C to 160 ° C. The heating time is generally 1 second to 5 minutes, preferably 5 seconds to 1 minute.

The light-sensitive material of which the light-sensitive layer contains silver halide is subjected to the heat development treatment as described above, and the polymerizable property of the portion where the latent image of silver halide is formed or the portion where the latent image of silver halide is not formed is obtained. The compound can be polymerized. Incidentally, in the light-sensitive material, the polymerizable compound in the portion where the latent image of silver halide is formed is generally polymerized in the above-mentioned heat development treatment, but as in the light-sensitive material described in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application No. 60-210657. In addition, it is also possible to polymerize the polymerizable compound in the portion where the latent image of silver halide is not formed by adjusting the type and amount of the reducing agent.

As described above, a polymer image can be obtained on the photosensitive layer. Further, a dye or a pigment can be fixed to a polymer to obtain a dye image.

When the light-sensitive material is constituted like the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53881, the developed light-sensitive material is pressed to destroy the microcapsules containing the color image-forming substance. A color image can be formed on a light-sensitive material by bringing a color image-forming substance, an acid developer and a coupler into contact with each other.

However, in the image forming method using a photosensitive material, it is preferable to form an image on the image receiving material in combination with the image receiving material.

The light-sensitive material is subjected to imagewise exposure and / or development treatment as described above, and the unpolymerized polymerizable compound is transferred to the image-receiving material by applying pressure in the state where the above-mentioned image-receiving materials are superposed on each other. A polymer image can be obtained. Various conventionally known methods can be used for the pressing means.

Further, in the embodiment in which the photosensitive layer contains a color image-forming substance,
Similarly, imagewise exposure and / or development is carried out to polymerize and cure the polymerizable compound, thereby immobilizing the color image forming substance in the cured portion. By pressing the photosensitive material and the image receiving material in a state of being superposed,
The color image-forming substance in the uncured portion can be transferred to the image receiving material to obtain a color image on the image receiving material.

After forming an image on the image receiving material as described above, the image receiving material may be heated as in the image forming method described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55501. The above method has an advantage that the unpolymerized polymerizable compound transferred onto the image receiving material is polymerized and the storability of the obtained image is improved.

The present applicant has already applied for a patent for various image recording apparatuses suitable for carrying out the series of image forming methods described above using a photosensitive material. Typical of these devices are an exposure device that forms a latent image by imagewise exposure, a heating and developing device that hardens and immobilizes a portion corresponding to the formed latent image, and a developed photosensitive material. A transfer device that superimposes an image receiving material on a material and pressurizes the image receiving material (Japanese Patent Application No. 60-289703), and at least light-irradiating the image receiving material on which the image is further transferred to the above configuration, For example, there is a fixing device attached to perform either pressurization or heating (Japanese Patent Application No. 60-289703).

The image forming method of the present invention can be applied to many fields such as black and white or color photographing and printing, printing, printing plate, X-ray photographing, medical photographing (for example, ultrasonic diagnostic machine CRT photographing), computer graphic hard copy, copying machine and the like. Can be applied to.

Hereinafter, a photosensitive layer of a photosensitive material used in the image forming method of the present invention, that is, a photosensitive layer containing a silver halide, a reducing agent, and a polymerizable compound, and a photosensitive layer containing a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound Each component will be sequentially described.

Photosensitive materials include silver chloride, silver bromide,
Any grain of silver iodide or silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide, silver iodobromide, and silver chloroiodobromide can be used.

The halogen composition of the silver halide grains may be uniform or non-uniform on the surface and inside. Regarding silver halide grains having a multiple structure having different compositions on the surface and inside, JP-A-57-154232, JP-A-58-108533, and JP-A-59-48755
No. 59-52237, US Pat. No. 4433048, and European Patent No. 100984. Further, as in the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-25576, silver halide grains having a high silver iodide ratio in the shell portion may be used.

There is also no particular limitation on the crystal habit of the silver halide grains. For example, tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 3 or more as in the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55509 may be used.

The silver halide grains described above are Japanese Patent Application No. 61-21458.
As in the light-sensitive material described in No. 0, it is preferable to use silver halide grains having a relatively low fog value.

Two or more kinds of silver halide grains having different halogen compositions, crystal habits, grain sizes and the like can be used in combination with the silver halide used in the light-sensitive material.

The grain size distribution of silver halide grains is not particularly limited. For example, monodisperse silver halide grains having a substantially uniform grain size distribution may be used as in the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55508.

In the light-sensitive material, the average grain size of silver halide grains is preferably 0.001 to 5 μm, and more preferably 0.001 to 2 μm.

The amount of silver halide contained in the photosensitive layer is 0.1 mg to 10 g / m ^{2 in} terms of silver including an organic silver salt which is an optional component described later.
It is preferable to set it as the range. Further, in terms of silver equivalent of silver halide alone, it is preferably 0.1 g / m ² or less, 1 mg
It is particularly preferable that the amount is from 90 to 90 mg / m ² .

The reducing agent that can be used in the light-sensitive material has a function of reducing silver halide and / or a function of accelerating (or suppressing) the polymerization of the polymerizable compound. There are various kinds of substances as the reducing agent having the above function. Examples of the reducing agent include hydroquinones, catechols, p-aminophenols, p-phenylenediamines, 3-pyrazolidones, 3-aminopyrazoles, 4-amino-5-
Pyrazolones, 5-aminouracils, 4,5-dihydroxy-6-aminopyrimidines, reductones, aminoreductones, o- or p-sulfonamidophenols, o- or p-sulfonamidonaphthols, 2-
Sulfonamide indanones, 4-sulfonamido-5
-Pyrazolones, 3-sulfonamidoindoles, sulfonamidepyrazolobenzimidazoles, sulfonamidepyrazolotriazoles, α-sulfonamidoketones, hydrazines and the like. By adjusting the type and amount of the reducing agent, it is possible to polymerize the polymerizable compound in the portion where the latent image of silver halide is formed or the portion where the latent image is not formed. In the system in which the polymerizable compound in the portion where the latent image of silver halide is not formed is polymerized, 1-phenyl-
It is particularly preferable to use 3-pyrazolidones.

Regarding various reducing agents having the above functions, see
61-183640, 61-188535, 61-228441, and Japanese Patent Applications 60-210657, 60-226084, 60
-227527, 60-227528 and 61-42746 (including those described as a developer or a hydrazine derivative). Regarding the reducing agent, see T. James
Author "The Theory of the Photographic Process" 4th edition, 291-334 (1977), Research Disclosure Vol.170, June 1978, No. 17029 (9-15),
And Vol. 176, December 1978, No. 17643 (22-31
Page). Further, as in the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55505, a reducing agent precursor capable of releasing the reducing agent under heating conditions or in contact with a base is used instead of the reducing agent. Good. The reducing agent and the reducing agent precursor described in the above-mentioned respective specifications and references can be effectively used for the light-sensitive material in the present specification. Therefore, the “reducing agent” in the present specification includes the reducing agents and reducing agent precursors described in the above-mentioned publications, specifications and literatures. These reducing agents may be used alone, or as described in each of the above specifications, two or more reducing agents may be mixed and used. When two or more reducing agents are used in combination, the reducing agents may interact with each other by first promoting the reduction of silver halide (and / or organic silver salt) by so-called superadditivity. To cause polymerization of the polymerizable compound via an oxidation-reduction reaction with another reducing agent in which the oxidant of the first reducing agent generated by reduction of silver halide (and / or organic silver salt) coexists (Or suppressing the polymerization) is considered. However, in actual use, it is difficult to specify which of the above actions because the above reactions can occur simultaneously.

Specific examples of the reducing agent include pentadecylhydroquinone, 5-t-butylcatechol, p- (N, N-diethylamino) phenol, 1-phenyl-4-methyl-4.
-Hydroxymethyl-3-pyrazolidone, 1-phenyl-4-methyl-4-heptadecylcarbonyloxymethyl-3-pyrazolidone, 2-phenylsulfonylamino-4-hexadecyloxy-5-t-octylphenol, 2-phenylsulfonyl Amino-4-t-butyl-
5-hexadecyloxyphenol, 2- (N-butylcarbamoyl) -4-phenylsulfonylaminonaphthol, 2- (N-methyl-N-octadecylcarbamoyl) -4-sulfonylaminonaphthol, 1-acetyl-2-phenylhydrazine , 1-acetyl-2-{(p
-Or o) -aminophenyl} hydrazine, 1-formyl-2-{(p or o) -aminophenyl} hydrazine, 1-acetyl-2-{(p or o) -methoxyphenyl} hydrazine, 1-lauroyl- 2-{(p or o) -aminophenyl} hydrazine, 1-trityl-2- (2,6-dichloro-4-cyanophenyl) hydrazine, 1-trityl-2-phenylhydrazine, 1-phenyl-2- ( 2,4,6-Trichlorophenyl) hydrazine, 1- {2- (2,5-di-t-pentylphenoxy)
Butyroyl} -2-{(p or o) -aminophenyl} hydrazine, 1- {2- (2,5-di-t-pentylphenoxy) butyroyl} -2-{(p or o) -aminophenyl} hydrazine -Pentadecyl fluorocaprylate, 3-indazolinone, 1- (3,5-dichlorobenzoyl) -2-phenylhydrazine, 1-trityl-2-[{(2-N-butyl-N-octylsulfamoyl) -4-Methanesulfonyl} phenyl] hydrazine, 1- {4- (2,5-di-t-pentylphenoxy)
Butyroyl} -2-{(p or o) -methoxyphenyl} hydrazine, 1- (methoxycarbonylbenzohydryl) -2-phenylhydrazine, 1-formyl-2-
[4- {2- (2,4-di-t-pentylphenoxy) butylamido} phenyl] hydrazine, 1-acetyl-2
-[4- {2- (2,4-di-t-pentylphenoxy)
Butylamido} phenyl] hydrazine, 1-trityl-
2-[{2,6-dichloro-4- (N, N-di-2-ethylhexyl) carbamoyl} phenyl] hydrazine, 1-
(Methoxycarbonylbenzohydryl) -2- (2,4-
Dichlorophenyl) hydrazine, 1-trityl-2-
[{2- (N-ethyl-N-octylsulfamoyl)
-4-Methanesulfonyl} phenyl] hydrazine, 1-
Benzoyl-2-tritylhydrazine, 1- (4-butoxybenzoyl) -2-tritylhydrazine, 1- (2,
4-dimethoxybenzoyl) -2-tritylhydrazine, 1- (4-dibutylcarbamoylbenzoyl) -2
-Tritylhydrazine, and 1- (1-naphthoyl)
-2-Trityl hydrazine etc. can be mentioned.

In the light-sensitive material, the reducing agent is preferably used in the range of 0.1 to 1500 mol% with respect to 1 mol of silver (including the above-described silver halide and an organic silver salt which is an optional component).

The polymerizable compound that can be used in the photosensitive material is not particularly limited, and known polymerizable compounds can be used. As a method of using the light-sensitive material, when a heat development process is planned, a high boiling point (for example, a boiling point of 80 ° C.) that is hard to volatilize during heating is used.
It is preferable to use the above compounds). Further, in the embodiment in which the photosensitive layer contains a color image forming substance as an optional component described later, the color image forming substance is immobilized by polymerizing and curing the polymerizable compound. A crosslinkable compound having a polymerizable functional group is preferable. Further, as will be described later, when a transfer image is formed using an image receiving material, it is preferable to use a highly viscous substance as the polymerizable compound, as in the photosensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-150079. preferable.

The polymerizable compounds that can be used in the light-sensitive material are described in the application specifications for a series of light-sensitive materials described above and below.

The polymerizable compound used in the light-sensitive material is generally a compound having addition polymerization or ring-opening polymerization. The compound having an addition-polymerizable group includes a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group, and the compound having a ring-opening polymerizable group includes a compound having an epoxy group. A compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group is particularly preferable.

Compounds having an ethylenically unsaturated group that can be used in the light-sensitive material include acrylic acid and salts thereof, acrylic acid esters, acrylamides, methacrylic acid and salts thereof, methacrylic acid esters, methacrylamides, maleic anhydride. Acids, maleic acid esters, itaconic acid esters, styrenes, vinyl ethers, vinyl esters, N-vinyl heterocycles, allyl ethers,
There are allyl esters and their derivatives.

Specific examples of the polymerizable compound that can be used in the light-sensitive material include acrylic acid esters such as n-butyl acrylate, cyclohexyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, benzyl acrylate, furfuryl acrylate, ethoxyethoxyethyl acrylate, dicyclohexyloxy. Ethyl acrylate, nonylphenyloxyethyl acrylate, hexanediol diacrylate, butanediol diacrylate, neopentyl glycol diacrylate, trimethylolpropane triacrylate, pentaerythritol tetraacrylate, dipentaerythritol pentaacrylate, dipentaerythritol hexaacrylate,
Examples thereof include polyoxyethylenated bisphenol A diacrylate, hydroxypolyether polyacrylate, polyester acrylate, and polyurethane acrylate.

Other specific examples of methacrylic acid esters include methyl methacrylate, butyl methacrylate, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, butanediol dimethacrylate, neopentyl glycol dimethacrylate, trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate, pentaerythritol trimethacrylate, and pentaerythritol tetramethacrylate. Methacrylate and dimethacrylate of polyoxyalkylenated bisphenol A and the like can be mentioned.

The polymerizable compounds may be used alone or in combination of two or more. The light-sensitive material containing two or more polymerizable compounds in combination is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55504.
A substance obtained by introducing a polymerizable functional group such as a vinyl group or a vinylidene group into the chemical structure of the above-mentioned reducing agent or an optional component described later, which is a color image forming substance, can also be used as the polymerizable compound. Needless to say, use of a substance that serves as both a reducing agent and a polymerizable compound or a color image forming substance and a polymerizable compound as described above is also included in the embodiment of the light-sensitive material.

In the light-sensitive material, the polymerizable compound is preferably used in the range of 50 to 120,000 parts by weight with respect to 1 part by weight of silver halide. A more preferred range of use is 10 to 10,000 parts by weight.

A photosensitive layer containing a photopolymerizable composition may be used instead of the structure of the photosensitive layer containing silver halide, a reducing agent and a polymerizable compound as described above.

As the photopolymerizable composition, a mixture of a photopolymerization initiator and a polymerizable compound can be used. The polymerizable compound that can be used in the photopolymerizable composition is the same as the above-mentioned polymerizable compound.

Examples of preferred photopolymerization initiators include α-alkoxyphenyl ketones, polycyclic quinones, benzophenones and substituted benzophenones, xanthones, thioxanthones, halogenated compounds (eg, chlorosulfonyl and chloromethyl, etc.). Aromatic compounds, chlorosulfonyl and chloromethyl heterocyclic compounds, chlorosulfonyl and chloromethylbenzophenones, and fluorenones), haloalkanes, α-halo-α-phenylacetophenones, photoreducible dye-reducing redox Couples, halogenated paraffins (eg, brominated or chlorinated paraffins), benzoylalkyl ethers, and lophine dimer-mercapto compound couples can be mentioned.

Specific examples of preferred photopolymerization initiators include benzoylbutyl, 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenylacetophenone, 9,10-anthraquinone, benzophenone, Michler's ketone, 4,4'-diethylaminobenzophenone, xanthone, chloroxanthone, thioxanthone, Chlorothioxanthone, 2,4-diethylthioxanthone, chlorosulfonylthioxanthone, chlorosulfonylanthraquinone, chloromethylanthracene, chloromethylbenzothiazole, chlorosulfonylbenzoxazole, chloromethylquinoline, chloromethylbenzophenone, chlorosulfonylbenzophenone, fluorenone, tetrabromide Carbon, benzoin butyl ether, benzoin isopropyl ether, 2,2'-bis (θ-chlorophenyl)-
Examples include a combination of 4,4 ', 5,5'-tetraphenylbiimidazole and 2-mercapto-5-methylthio-1,3,4-thiadiazole.

As the photopolymerization initiator, the compounds described above may be used alone or in combination of several kinds.

In the light-sensitive material of the present invention, the photopolymerization initiator is preferably used in the range of 0.5 to 30% by weight based on the polymerizable compound used. A more preferable range of use is 2 to 20% by weight.

Further, instead of the photopolymerizable composition, a photopolymerizable compound exhibiting photopolymerizability by itself may be used.

Examples of the photopolymerizable compound include acrylamide, barium acrylate, glycerin triacrylate, N, N'-
Examples thereof include methylene bis acrylamide, polyethylene glycol diacrylate, pentaerythritol diacrylate, pentaerythritol triacrylate, vinylcarbazole and silicic acid ester of polyvinyl alcohol. Moreover, the compound which introduce | transduced the photosensitive group into the polymeric compound as mentioned above can also be used as a photopolymerizable compound.

The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive layer containing the components described above. The support is not particularly limited, but when heat development processing is planned as a method of using the light-sensitive material, it is preferable to use a material that can withstand the processing temperature of the development processing. Examples of materials that can be used for the support include glass, paper, high-quality paper, coated paper, cast coated paper, synthetic paper, metal and its analogs, polyester, acetyl cellulose, cellulose ester, polyvinyl acetal, polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyethylene. Examples thereof include films such as terephthalate, and paper laminated with a resin material or a polymer such as polyethylene.

When the support is made of a porous material such as paper, the support used in the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-52996 has a certain smoothness according to a prescribed method due to waviness. It is preferable to have When a paper support is used, a paper support having a low water absorption such as the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-183050 and a light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-191273 are used. A paper support having a certain Beck smoothness, a paper support having a low shrinkage ratio such as the photosensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-227766, and a photosensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-227768. Paper support with low air permeability,
A paper support having a pH value of 5 to 9 like the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-243552, and a paper having a large amount of short fibers such as the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-307206. A support or the like can also be used.

Furthermore, when a paper support is used as the support of the light-sensitive material, He-N is used as in the paper support of the image receiving material used in the present invention.
It is preferable to use a paper support using a base paper having a formation distribution such that the total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by e-laser operation is 15% or less. Regarding the photosensitive material using the paper support specified above,
It is described in the specification of "Photosensitive Material" filed on April 6, 1987 by the present applicant (1).

Hereinafter, various aspects of the light-sensitive material, optional components that can be contained in the light-sensitive layer, auxiliary layers that can be optionally provided in the light-sensitive material, and the like will be sequentially described.

The photosensitive material preferably has a polymerizable compound (including a photopolymerizable composition and a photopolymerizable compound; the same applies hereinafter) dispersed in the photosensitive layer in the form of oil droplets. An example of a photosensitive material in which a polymerizable compound is dispersed in the photosensitive layer in the form of oil droplets is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 60-218603. In the oil drop,
Other components in the photosensitive layer such as a silver halide, a reducing agent and a color image forming substance may be contained. Japanese Patent Application No. 60-261888 discloses a light-sensitive material containing silver halide in oil droplets.
JP-A No. 61-25577 and JP-A No. 61-5751 each describe a light-sensitive material in which a reducing agent is further contained in oil droplets.

The oil droplets of the polymerizable compound are more preferably in the form of microcapsules. Various known techniques can be applied to the microcapsules without particular limitation. For an example of a light-sensitive material in which oil droplets of a polymerizable compound are in a microcapsule state, see Japanese Patent Application No. 60-117089.
It is described in the specification.

There is no particular limitation on the wall material that constitutes the outer shell of the microcapsule. A photosensitive material using microcapsules having an outer shell made of polyamide resin and / or polyester resin is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53871.
Regarding a photosensitive material using a microcapsule having an outer shell made of a polyurea resin and / or a polyurethane resin, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53872 discloses a photosensitive material using a microcapsule having an outer shell made of an amino-aldehyde resin. For Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53873, for a photosensitive material using a microcapsule having an outer shell made of gelatin, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53874 discloses a microcapsule having an outer shell made of an epoxy resin. Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53875 discloses a light-sensitive material using the same, and Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53877 describes a light-sensitive material using a microcapsule having a composite resin shell containing a polyamide resin and a polyurea resin. Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53878 discloses a photosensitive material using microcapsules having a composite resin shell containing a polyurethane resin and a polyester resin. There is a description, respectively.

When the silver halide is contained in the microcapsules, it is preferable that the silver halide be present in the wall material that constitutes the outer shell of the microcapsules. A light-sensitive material containing silver halide in the microcapsule wall material is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-11556.

Further, when the silver halide is contained in the microcapsules, it is preferable that the content of the microcapsules containing 5 or more silver halide grains is 50% by weight or more.
The light-sensitive material having the above structure is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-160592.

It should be noted that two or more microcapsules in which at least one component among the components contained in the microcapsules such as silver halide, a reducing agent, a polymerizable compound, and a color image forming substance which is an optional component described later are different may be used together. Good. In particular, in the case of forming a full-color image, it is preferable to use together three or more types of microcapsules in which the color hue of the color image forming substance contained is different. The light-sensitive material containing two or more kinds of microcapsules in combination is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-42747.

The optional components that can be contained in the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material include color image forming substances, sensitizing dyes, organic silver salts, various image forming accelerators (eg, oils, surfactants, antifoggants and / or A compound having a development promoting function, a thermal solvent, a compound having an oxygen removing function, etc.), a thermal polymerization inhibitor, a thermal polymerization initiator, a development terminator, a fluorescent whitening agent, an anti-fading agent, a white pigment, a halation or Anti-radiation dyes, matting agents, anti-smudge agents, plasticizers, water releasing agents, binders, solvents for polymerizable compounds, etc.

The photosensitive material can obtain a polymer image by the constitution of the photosensitive layer described above, but a color image can also be formed by including a color image forming substance as an optional component in the photosensitive layer.

The color image-forming substance that can be used in the light-sensitive material is not particularly limited, and various types can be used. That is, a substance that is itself colored (dye or pigment), or energy that is colorless or pale but is external (heat, pressure, light irradiation, etc.) or another component (developing agent) A substance (color former) that develops a color upon contact is also included in the color image forming substance.

Dyes and pigments, which are themselves colored substances, are commercially available as well as various documents (eg, "Handbook of Dyes" edited by the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, published in 1970, "Handbook of Latest Pigments" edited by the Japan Pigment Technology Association, Known ones described in 1977 can be used. These dyes or pigments are used after being dissolved or dispersed.

On the other hand, examples of the substance that develops color by some energy such as heating, pressurization, and light irradiation are thermochromic compounds,
Known are piezochromic compounds, photochromic compounds, and leuco bodies such as triarylmethane dyes, quinone dyes, indigoid dyes, and azine dyes. All of them develop color by heating, pressurizing, light irradiation or air oxidation.

Examples of the substance that develops a color upon contact with another component include various systems that develop a color by an acid-base reaction between two or more components, a redox reaction, a coupling reaction, a chelate formation reaction and the like. For example, pressure-sensitive copying paper (pages 29-58), azography (pages 87-95), described in "Introduction to Special Paper Chemistry" by Hiroyuki Moriga (published in 1975).
Known coloring systems such as thermosensitive coloring due to chemical changes (pages 118 to 120), or a seminar by Kinki Chemical Industry Association "Latest dye chemistry-Attractive utilization as a functional dye and parent development-" Proceedings 26-32 Page, (June 19, 1980), the coloring system etc. which can be used.

Incidentally, the general light-sensitive material using a color image forming substance is described in the above-mentioned JP-A-61-73145. In addition, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-29987 describes a photosensitive material using a dye or pigment as a color image forming substance, and Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53876 describes a photosensitive material using a leuco dye, a triazene compound. Japanese Patent Application No. 61-96339 discloses a light-sensitive material using the same, and Japanese Patent Application Nos. 61-133091 and 61-9639 disclose a light-sensitive material using a yellow color-forming leuco dye.
Nos. 133092 and 91-197963 describe the light-sensitive materials using a cyan color-forming leuco dye.

When two kinds of substances that cause a color reaction in a contact state are used as the above-mentioned solid color image-forming substances, one of the substances causing the color reaction and the polymerizable compound are contained in microcapsules. Then, a color image can be formed on the photosensitive layer by allowing another substance among the substances that cause the above-mentioned color forming reaction to exist outside the microcapsules containing the polymerizable compound. A light-sensitive material capable of obtaining a color image without using an image receiving material as described above is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-53881.

The sensitizing dye that can be used in the light-sensitive material is not particularly limited, and a silver halide sensitizing dye known in the photographic art can be used. The sensitizing dye, methine dye, cyanine dye, merocyanine dye, complex cyanine dye, holopolar cyanine dye, hemicyanine dye,
Examples include styryl dyes and hemioxonol dyes. These sensitizing dyes may be used alone or in combination. In particular, for the purpose of supersensitization, it is common to use a combination of sensitizing dyes. Further, together with the sensitizing dye, a dye which does not have a spectral sensitizing effect itself, or a substance which does not substantially absorb visible light but exhibits supersensitization may be used together. The addition amount of the sensitizing dye is generally about 10 ^{-8 to} 10 ^-2 mol per mol of silver halide. The sensitizing dye is preferably added at the stage of preparing the silver halide emulsion. Regarding a light-sensitive material obtained by adding a sensitizing dye in the step of forming silver halide grains, Japanese Patent Application No. 60-139746 discloses a silver halide emulsion after the formation of silver halide grains with a sensitizing dye. The light-sensitive materials obtained by adding them in the preparation stage are described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55510. Further, specific examples of sensitizing dyes that can be used in the light-sensitive material are also described in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Nos. 60-139746 and 61-55510.

Use of an organic silver salt in a light-sensitive material is particularly effective in heat development processing. That is, when heated to a temperature of 80 ° C. or higher, the organic silver salt is considered to participate in the redox reaction using the latent image of silver halide as a catalyst. in this case,
It is preferable that the silver halide and the organic silver salt are in contact with or in close proximity to each other. As the organic compound that constitutes the organic silver salt, an aliphatic or aromatic carboxylic acid,
Examples thereof include thiocarbonyl group-containing compounds having a mercapto group or α-hydrogen, and imino group-containing compounds. Among them, benzotriazole is particularly preferable. The organic silver salt is generally a silver halide 1
It is used in an amount of 0.01 to 10 mol, preferably 0.01 to 1 mol, per mol. The same effect can be obtained by adding an organic compound (for example, benzotriazole) constituting the organic silver salt to the photosensitive layer instead of the organic silver salt. A light-sensitive material using an organic silver salt is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 60-141799.

Various image forming accelerators can be used in the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material. As the image forming accelerator, promotion of redox agent reaction between silver halide (and / or organic silver salt) and reducing agent and redox agent, promotion of transfer of color image forming substance from light-sensitive material to image receiving material, etc. There is a function of. The image formation accelerator is a base or a base precursor, an oil, a surfactant, an antifoggant function and / or a physicochemical function.
Further, it is further classified into a compound having a development promoting function, a thermal solvent, a compound having an oxygen removing function, and the like. However,
These substance groups generally have a complex function, and usually have some of the above-mentioned accelerating effects together. Therefore, the above classification is convenient, and in fact, one compound often has a plurality of functions.

A light-sensitive material using a base or a base precursor is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 60-227528.

Japanese Patent Application No. 61-13181 describes a light-sensitive material using a tertiary amine as a base, and discloses a light-sensitive material using a fine particle dispersion of a hydrophobic organic base compound having a melting point of 80 to 180 ° C. Japanese Patent Application No. 61-52992 discloses a photosensitive material using a hydroxide or salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, and Japanese Patent Application No. 61-96341 discloses a solubility of 0.1%.
The light-sensitive materials using the following guanidine derivatives are described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-215637.

A light-sensitive material using silver acetylene as a base precursor is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-167558.
Further, using acetylene carboxylate as a base precursor, for a light-sensitive material containing metal silver, copper metal, a silver compound, or a copper compound as a decomposition accelerator of the base precursor, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-191000. Using acetylene carboxylic acid salt as a base precursor, for a photosensitive material containing a heat-meltable compound as a decomposition accelerator of the base precursor further, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-191001 specification, using a sulfonyl acetate salt as a base precursor,
Further, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-193375 describes the light-sensitive materials containing a heat-fusible compound as a decomposition accelerator of the base precursor.

When using a base or a base precursor for the light-sensitive material,
It is preferable that a silver halide, a reducing agent and a polymerizable compound are contained in the microcapsules described above, and a base or a base precursor is present in the photosensitive layer outside the microcapsules. Alternatively, a base or a base precursor may be contained in another microcapsule as in the light-sensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-52988. In addition to the above specification, a light-sensitive material using a microcapsule containing a base or a base precursor is a light-sensitive material containing a base or a base precursor dissolved or dispersed in an aqueous solution of a water retention agent in a microcapsule.
No. 52989 discloses a photosensitive material in which solid fine particles carrying a base or a base precursor are contained in a microcapsule. In Japanese Patent Application No. 61-52995, a base compound having a melting point of 70 to 210 ° C. is contained in a microcapsule. The light-sensitive materials contained in JP-A No. 61-212148 are described respectively. The base or base precursor is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-9.
It may be added to an auxiliary layer (a layer containing a base or a base precursor described later) other than the photosensitive layer as described in the specification of 6340.

Japanese Patent Application No. 60-294337 discloses a photosensitive material using an antifoggant as a compound having an antifoggant function and / or a development promoting function, and Japanese Patent Application No. 60-294337 discloses a photosensitive material using a compound having a cyclic amide structure. JP-A-60-294338, Japanese Patent Application No. 60-294339 for a photosensitive material using a thioether compound, and Japanese Patent Application No. 60-29434 for a photosensitive material using a polyethylene glycol derivative.
No. 0, for a photosensitive material using a thiol derivative, Japanese Patent Application No. 60-294341, for a photosensitive material using an acetylene compound, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-20438,
The light-sensitive materials containing the sulfonamide derivative are described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-25578. Further, regarding a photosensitive material using a compound having two or more mercapto groups as a compound having a function of removing oxygen, Japanese Patent Application No.
It is described in the specification of 61-53880.

The thermal polymerization initiator that can be used in the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material is a compound that generally undergoes thermal decomposition under heating to generate a polymerization initiation species (particularly a radical), and is usually used as a radical polymerization initiator. is there. The thermal polymerization initiator is described on pages 6 to 18 of “Addition Polymerization / Ring-Opening Polymerization,” 1983, Kyoritsu Shuppan, edited by the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Editorial Committee for Polymer Experiments. The thermal polymerization initiator is preferably used in the range of 0.1 to 120 wt% with respect to the polymerizable compound,
More preferably, it is used in the range of 1 to 10% by weight.
In the system in which the polymerizable compound in the portion where the latent image of silver halide is not formed is polymerized, it is preferable to add a thermal polymerization initiator to the photosensitive layer. A light-sensitive material containing a thermal polymerization initiator is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 60-210657.

A development terminator that can be used in a light-sensitive material is a compound that neutralizes or reacts with a base immediately after proper development to lower the concentration of the base in the film to stop the development or interact with silver and a silver salt. It is a compound that suppresses development.

As the anti-smudge agent used in the light-sensitive material, solid particles at room temperature are preferable. The average particle size of the particles is preferably in the range of 3 to 50 μm in volume average diameter,
The range of 5 to 40 μm is more preferable. As described above, when the oil droplets of the polymerizable compound are in the microcapsule state, it is more effective that the particles are larger than the microcapsules.

The binder that can be used in the light-sensitive material and the image-receiving material described later can be contained in the light-sensitive layer or the image-receiving layer alone or in combination. It is preferable to mainly use a hydrophilic binder. The photosensitive material using a binder is described in JP-A-61-69062. A light-sensitive material using a binder together with microcapsules is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-52994.

When a solvent for a polymerizable compound is used in the light-sensitive material, it is preferably used by enclosing it in a microcapsule different from the microcapsule containing the polymerizable compound. A photosensitive material using an organic solvent miscible with a polymerizable compound encapsulated in microcapsules is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-52993.

In addition to the above, examples of optional components that can be contained in the photosensitive layer and usage thereof are also described in the application specification regarding the series of photosensitive materials described above, and Research Disclosure Magazine Vol. 170, June 1978. 17029 (pages 9 to 15). The pH value of the photosensitive layer is preferably 7 or less as in the photosensitive material described in Japanese Patent Application No. 61-104226.

Examples of layers that can be optionally provided in the light-sensitive material include an image receiving layer, a heating element layer, an antistatic layer, an anti-curl layer, a peeling layer,
Examples thereof include a cover sheet or a protective layer, a layer containing a base or a base precursor, and a base barrier layer.

Instead of using the image receiving material described later as the method of using the photosensitive material, an image receiving layer may be provided on the photosensitive material and an image may be formed on this layer. The image receiving layer provided on the photosensitive material may have the same structure as the image receiving layer provided on the image receiving material. Details of the image receiving layer will be described later.

Regarding the photosensitive material using the heating element layer, Japanese Patent Application No. 60-1
35568, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-55507 for a photosensitive material provided with a cover sheet or a protective layer, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-96340 for a photosensitive material provided with a layer containing a base or a base precursor. Each is described in the specification. Regarding the base barrier layer, the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application No. 61-9
It is described in the specification of 6340. Furthermore, examples of other auxiliary layers and their usages are also described in the specification of the above-mentioned series of photosensitive materials.

Although various methods can be used as a method for producing a light-sensitive material, a general production method is to prepare a coating solution by dissolving, emulsifying or dispersing the components of the photosensitive layer in an appropriate solvent, and applying the solution. It comprises the steps of applying a liquid to a support and drying it to obtain a light-sensitive material.

Generally, the coating solution is prepared by preparing a liquid composition containing each component for each component, and then mixing each liquid composition. The liquid composition may be prepared for each component, or may be prepared to contain a plurality of components. A part of the components of the photosensitive layer may be added and used at the stage of preparing the liquid composition or the coating solution or after the preparation. Furthermore, as described below, a method of preparing a secondary composition by emulsifying an oily (or aqueous) composition containing one or more components in an aqueous (or oily) solvent can also be used. .

A photosensitive material can be produced by applying the coating solution prepared as described above onto the support and drying it. The coating of the coating liquid on the support can be easily carried out according to known techniques.

The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the following examples, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

[Example 1] Preparation of paper support (a) 30 parts of LBSP and 70 parts of LBKP were beaten to 300 cc of Canadian freeness using a Jordan type conical refinery, and 1.0 part of rosin size, 2.0 parts of sulfuric acid band and 0.5 part of melamine formaldehyde were used. Both were added in weight percent relative to the bone dry pulp. Then, using a Fourdrinier paper machine with a shake, weigh 70 g / m ^{2 of} the above stock, and
Paper was made into 70 μm base paper.

The formation distribution of the base paper produced as described above was measured using a sheet formation tester manufactured by Toyo Seiki Seisakusho Co., Ltd., and the total variation coefficient of all wavelengths was 11.5%, 1
The total coefficient of variation for wavelengths from 2.5 to 80 mm was 4.8%.

Preparation of image receiving material (A) 25g of water, 40g of sodium hexametaphosphate aqueous solution 11g
Was further added, and 34 g of zinc 3,5-di-α-methylbenzylsalicylate and 82 g of 55% calcium carbonate slurry were mixed and coarsely dispersed by a mixer. The liquid was dispersed with a Dynamill disperser, and 50% SBR latex 6 per 200 g of the obtained liquid.
g and 55 g of 8% polyvinyl alcohol were added and mixed uniformly. Next, this mixed solution is uniformly applied to the surface of the paper support (a) prepared as described above on the side where the coating layer is provided so as to have a wet film thickness of 30 μm, and then dried to prepare an image receiving material. did.

Preparation of silver halide emulsion 600m of an aqueous solution containing 21g of sodium chloride and 56g of potassium bromide in an agitated aqueous gelatin solution (containing 20g of gelatin and 3g of sodium chloride in 1000ml of water and kept at 75 ° C).
l and an aqueous solution of silver nitrate (600 ml of water in which 0.59 mol of silver nitrate was dissolved) were simultaneously added at an equal flow rate for 40 minutes.
Thus, a monodisperse cubic silver chlorobromide emulsion (bromine 80 mol%) having an average grain size of 0.35 μm was prepared.

After washing the above emulsion with water and desalting, sodium thiosulfate
5 mg and 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a, 7-tetrazaindene 20 mg were added and chemical sensitization was performed at 60 ° C. The yield of emulsion was 600 g.

Preparation of Photosensitive Composition 0.40 g of the following copolymer in 100 g of trimethylolpropane triacrylate, Burgasscript Red I-6-
B (manufactured by Ciba Geigy) 6.00 g, and Nonion NS-208.
5 g (manufactured by NOF CORPORATION) was dissolved. The above solution 18.00
0.02 g of benzotriazole was dissolved in g. To this solution, 0.16 g of the following hydrazine derivative (reducing agent),
A solution prepared by dissolving 1.22 g of the following developing agent (reducing agent) in 1.80 g of methylene chloride was added. Further, 3.50 g of the silver halide emulsion prepared as described above was added, and the mixture was stirred at 15,000 rpm for 5 minutes using a homogenizer to obtain a photosensitive composition.

Preparation of Microcapsule Solution 10.51 g of 18.6% aqueous solution of Isoban (Kuraray Co., Ltd.) and 48.56 g of 2.89% aqueous solution of pectin were added, and 10% sulfuric acid was used.
The above photosensitive composition was added to an aqueous solution adjusted to pH 4.0, and stirred at 7,000 rpm for 2 minutes using a homogenizer,
The photosensitive composition was emulsified in an aqueous solvent.

Urea 40% aqueous solution 8.32 g, resorcin 11.3% aqueous solution 2.82 g, formalin 37% aqueous solution 8.56 g, and ammonium sulfate 8.00% aqueous solution 3.00 g were sequentially added to this aqueous emulsion 72.5 g, and heating was continued at 60 ° C. for 2 hours while stirring. . Thereafter, the pH was adjusted to 7.3 using a 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, and 3.62 g of a 30.9% aqueous sodium hydrogen sulfite solution was added to prepare a microcapsule solution.

Preparation of photosensitive material (A) To 10.0 g of the microcapsule liquid prepared as described above,
1.0g of 1% aqueous solution of anionic surfactant and 1g of 10% guanidine trichloroacetate (water / ethanol = 50/50 volume ratio) solution were added and applied to the surface of polyethylene terephthalate film using a # 40 coating rod. And dried at about 40 ° C. to prepare a light-sensitive material (A).

Image formation and its evaluation method The photosensitive material (A) prepared as described above was uniformly exposed at 60 lux for 1 second using a tungsten bulb, and then 125 ° C.
It was heated on a hot plate heated for 40 seconds. Then, each light-sensitive material was superposed on the image-receiving material (A) prepared as described above and passed through a 250 kg / cm ² pressure roller or a 500 kg / cm ² pressure roller, and a magenta positive color image was obtained. Got above. With respect to this color image, the number of transfer irregularities having a diameter of 1 mm or more existing in a color image within a circle having a diameter of 4 cm was calculated.

The above measurement results are summarized in Table 2 below.

[Example 2] Preparation of paper supports (b) and (c) Composition ratio of wood pulp used in preparation of paper support (a) of Example 1, freeness after beating (Canadian freeness) and papermaking Paper supports (b) and (c) were prepared in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the conditions were changed as shown in Table 1 below. The paper supports (b) and (c)
Table 1 also shows the formation distribution of the base paper used for the above.

Preparation of image receiving materials (B) and (C) Image receiving materials (B) and (C) were prepared in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the paper supports (b) and (c) prepared as described above were used. It was created.

Image formation and its evaluation method An image was formed in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the image-receiving materials (B) and (C) prepared as described above were used, and the diameter was measured.
The number of transfer irregularities with a diameter of 1 mm or more existing in the color image within a circle of 4 cm was calculated.

The above measurement results are summarized in Table 2 below.

Comparative Example 1 Preparation of Paper Supports (x) to (z) Composition Ratio of Wood Pulp Used in Preparation of Paper Support (a) of Example 1, Freeness after Beating (Canadian Freeness) and Paper Making Except that the conditions were changed as shown in Table 1 below, the same procedure as in Example 1 was carried out so that the paper support (x)-
(Z) was created. The formation distribution of the base papers of the paper supports (x) to (z) is also shown in Table 1.

Preparation of image receiving materials (X) to (Z) Comparative image receiving materials (X) to (X) in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the paper supports (x) to (z) prepared as described above were used. (Z) was created.

Image formation and its evaluation method An image was formed in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the image-receiving materials (X) to (Z) prepared as described above were used, and the diameter was 4 cm.
The number of transfer irregularities with a diameter of 1 mm or more existing in the color image in the circle was calculated.

The above measurement results are summarized in Table 2 below.

Example 3 Preparation of Photosensitive Material (B) Trimethylolpropane triacrylate (2 g) and methyl methacrylate (7 g) were added to the monomer mixture, and 2-mercapto-5-methylthio-1,3,4-thiadiazole (0.7 g) was added,
It was dissolved using an ultrasonic disperser. Methylene chloride 6g, 4
-4'-bis (diethylamino) benzophenone 0.7 g,
2.1 g of 2,2'-bis (o-chlorophenyl) -4,4 ', 5,5'-tetraphenylimidazole and 2.1 g of 3-diethylamino-6-chloro-7-anilinofluorane were dissolved in the above solution. In addition to the oil phase.

On the other hand, a mixture of 10% arabic gum aqueous solution 17.0 g, 12% isobutylene / maleic anhydride aqueous solution 18.8 g and distilled water 26.8 g was adjusted to pH 3.5 with sulfuric acid, and urea 4.6 g was further added.
And 0.6 g of resorcin were added, and the above oil phase was emulsified and dispersed in this solution. The average particle size of the oil phase droplets is 3 μm
Met. Then, 36% formalin 12.9 was added and the temperature was raised to 60 ° C. with stirring, 1 hour later, 9.0 g of a 5% ammonium sulfate aqueous solution was added, and the mixture was further stirred for 1 hour while maintaining the temperature at 60 ° C. and then cooled. Then, the pH was adjusted to 7.0 using an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution.

To 5 g of the microcapsule solution thus obtained, 1.53 g of a 15% polyvinyl alcohol aqueous solution, 3.47 g of distilled water and 0.57 g of starch were added to obtain a coating solution. Apply this coating solution # 10
A coating material was applied to the surface of a polyethylene terephthalate film using the coating rod of 1. and dried at 40 ° C. to prepare a photosensitive material (B).

Image formation and evaluation method The photosensitive material (B) prepared as described above was exposed for 1 second from a distance of 50 cm using a 400 watt high pressure mercury lamp,
When the light-sensitive material was superposed with the image-receiving material (C) used in Example 2 and passed through a pressure roller of 250 kg / cm ² or a pressure roller of 500 kg / cm ² , a positive magenta image was obtained on the image-receiving material. Was given. With respect to this color image, the number of transfer irregularities having a diameter of 1 mm or more existing in a color image within a circle having a diameter of 4 cm was calculated.

The measurement results of Examples 1 to 3 and Comparative Example 1 are shown in Table 2 below. As is clear from the results shown in Table 2, the use of the image receiving material according to the present invention can significantly reduce the occurrence of transfer unevenness.

Claims (14)

[Claims] 1. A latent image of silver halide is formed by imagewise exposing a light-sensitive material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer containing a silver halide, a reducing agent, a polymerizable compound and a color image-forming substance. Simultaneously with imagewise exposure or after imagewise exposure, development is carried out, and pressure is applied to the developed photosensitive material with an image receiving material having an image receiving layer on a paper support superposed. An image forming method for transferring a color image-forming substance to an image receiving material together with an uncured polymerizable compound, wherein the paper support of the image receiving material is produced using a shake at the time of paper making. The total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by laser scanning is 15
An image forming method, which is a paper support using a base paper having a texture distribution of not more than%. 2. A paper support of the image-receiving material, wherein each of the filtered distribution curves obtained by passing the laser light transmittance distribution curve through filters of 12.5, 16, 20, 25, 32, 40, 50, 63 and 80 mm. The image forming method according to claim 1, which is a paper support using a base paper having a formation distribution such that the total variation coefficient is 7% or less. 3. A base paper used for a paper support of the image receiving material,
The image forming method according to claim 1, which is a base paper made under papermaking conditions with a jet / wire ratio of 0.9 to 1.0. 4. A base paper used for the paper support of the image receiving material,
The image forming method according to claim 1, wherein the image forming paper is a base paper produced by using a dandy roll during paper making. 5. A base paper used for a paper support of the image receiving material,
The image forming method according to claim 1, further comprising a dispersant. 6. The image forming method according to claim 1, wherein in the light-sensitive material, a silver halide, a polymerizable compound and a color image-forming substance are contained in a light-sensitive layer in a state of being contained in microcapsules. . 7. The image forming method according to claim 1, wherein the development processing is performed by heating. 8. The image forming method according to claim 1, wherein in the development processing, the polymerizable compound in a portion where a latent image of silver halide is formed is polymerized. 9. A photosensitive material comprising a support and a photosensitive layer comprising a photopolymerizable composition or a photopolymerizable compound and a color image forming substance is imagewise exposed, and then imagewise exposed. The color image forming substance is transferred to the image receiving material together with the uncured photopolymerizable composition or the photopolymerizable compound by pressing the image receiving material having the image receiving layer on the paper support on the photosensitive material. In the image forming method, the paper support of the image receiving material is manufactured using a shake at the time of papermaking, whereby the total variation coefficient of the laser light transmittance distribution curve obtained by He-Ne laser scanning is 15
An image forming method, which is a paper support using a base paper having a texture distribution of not more than%. 10. A paper support of the image receiving material has a laser light transmittance distribution curve of 12.5, 16, 20, 25, 32, 40, 50, 63.
10. The image forming method according to claim 9, which is a paper support using a base paper having a formation distribution such that the total variation coefficient of each filtering distribution curve obtained through each filter of 80 mm and 80 mm is 7% or less. . 11. The image forming method according to claim 9, wherein the raw paper used for the paper support of the image receiving material is a raw paper produced under papermaking conditions with a jet / wire ratio of 0.9 to 1.0. 12. The image forming method according to claim 9, wherein the base paper used for the paper support of the image receiving material is a base paper produced by using a dandy roll at the time of paper making. 13. The image forming method according to claim 9, wherein the paper support of the image receiving material has a coating layer containing a hydrophobic polymer provided on one surface or both surfaces of the raw paper. 14. The photosensitive material according to claim 9, wherein the photopolymerizable composition or the photopolymerizable compound, and the color image-forming substance are contained in the photosensitive layer in a state of being contained in microcapsules. Image forming method.