Claims
- 1. A method of forming a multi-color image of two or more colors from two or more articles of manufacture, each article of manufacture being a precursor for a multi-color image-forming material and comprising a substrate and two layers thereon, the substrate being a transparent substrate and the layers being an intermediate layer and a colored photo-sensitive layer; wherein:
- the intermediate layer is releasably adhered to the transparent substrate, harmless to hue and transparency and has a first surface releasably adherable to the transparent substrate and a second surface;
- the intermediate layer at the first surface is:
- non-sticky at room temperature, and heat-fusible and mutually bondable, after removal of the transparent substrate, to a subsequently applied photosensitive layer of another precursor which, after photoinsolubilization and removal of water soluble unexposed portions, is firmly bonded to a second surface of the intermediate layer of the another precursor, which second surface of the intermediate layer of said another precursor is also mutually bondable to said first surface;
- the intermediate layer at the second surface is:
- adhered to the colored photo-sensitive layer and firmly adherable to a color image subsequently formed by photoinsolubilization and water development of the colored photo-sensitive layer,
- non-sticky at room temperature,
- heat-fusible and mutually bondable to another heat-fusible and mutually bondable surface, and
- insoluble in water; and
- the colored photo-sensitive layer is adhered to the second surface of the intermediate layer, formed from an admixture of a resin component which is film-forming, water soluble, and photoinsolubilizable, and a coloring agent, and upon exposure of a portion of the colored photo-sensitive layer to active rays, the exposed portions are rendered insoluble in water, the unexposed portions being easily removable by dissolving in water to form a color image;
- the method comprising the steps of:
- (1) providing the article of manufacture;
- (2) superposing a negative manuscript corresponding to the color of the colored layer of the colored photo-sensitive layer on the colored photo-sensitive layer;
- (3) exposing the colored photo-sensitive layer to light through said negative manuscript to cause light-exposed areas of the colored layer to become water-insoluble;
- (4) washing and developing the light-exposed colored photo-sensitive layer with water to remove unexposed water-soluble portions and form an image layer in the article of manufacture;
- (5) contacting directly the image carrying layer of the article of manufacture with a heat-fusible and bondable adhesive layer provided on a transfer material to form a laminate of the article of manufacture and the transfer material;
- (6) heating and pressing the laminate to bond the article of manufacture to the transfer material to form a first color image laminate;
- (7) removing the transparent substrate from the article of manufacture of the first color image laminate to permit the first surface of the heat-fusible and bondable first surface to become the outermost surface of the laminate;
- (8) duplicating steps (2), (3) and (4) using the article of manufacture except that a different color is used;
- (9) contacting directly the different colored image of step (8) with the outermost surface of the laminate in step (7) to form a second laminate of the different color image and the first color image;
- (10) duplicating step (6) to form a two-color image laminate; and
- (11) duplicating step (7) to permit the first surface of the heat-fusible and bondable first surface of the two-color image laminate to become the outermost surface of the laminate.
- 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediate layer of each article of manufacture has a thickness of 1.mu. to 10.mu..
- 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the colored photosensitive layer of each article of manufacture has a thickness of 2.mu. to 5.mu..
- 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediate layer of an article of manufacture consists of a single layer.
- 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a resin selected from the group consisting of polyolefin, polyester and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers.
- 6. The method of claim 1, wherein said resin of the colored photo-sensitive layer (3) of an article of manufacture comprises a water-soluble, film-forming resin and a photo-insolubilizing agent.
- 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the water-soluble, film-forming resin is selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, polyacrylamide and copolymers of acrylamide.
- 8. The method of claim 1, further comprising repeating each of steps (8) through (11) one or more times using the article of manufacture except that a different color is used each time to form a three or more color image laminate.
- 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediate layer of an article of manufacture comprises two layers.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 325,814 filed Mar. 20, 1989, now abandoned , which is a divisional of application Ser. No. 225,582 filed July 28, 1988, now abandoned which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 914,578 filed Oct. 3, 1986, which, in turn, is a continuation of application Ser. No. 634,254 filed July 25, 1984. Application Ser. Nos. 914,578 and 634,254 are now abandoned.
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