WO1998007578A1 - Protective overlays for thermal dye transfer prints - Google Patents
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- WO1998007578A1 WO1998007578A1 PCT/GB1997/002185 GB9702185W WO9807578A1 WO 1998007578 A1 WO1998007578 A1 WO 1998007578A1 GB 9702185 W GB9702185 W GB 9702185W WO 9807578 A1 WO9807578 A1 WO 9807578A1
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- overlay
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
- B41M7/00—After-treatment of prints, e.g. heating, irradiating, setting of the ink, protection of the printed stock
- B41M7/0027—After-treatment of prints, e.g. heating, irradiating, setting of the ink, protection of the printed stock using protective coatings or layers by lamination or by fusion of the coatings or layers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
- B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
- B41M5/26—Thermography ; Marking by high energetic means, e.g. laser otherwise than by burning, and characterised by the material used
- B41M5/382—Contact thermal transfer or sublimation processes
- B41M5/38264—Overprinting of thermal transfer images
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- This invention relates to protective overlays for printed matter and in particular to such overlays for use with printed matter produced by thermal transfer printing
- Thermal transfer printing is a process in which one or more thermally transferable dyes are caused to transfer from selected areas of a dyesheet to a receiver by thermal stimuli, thereby to form an image.
- a dyesheet comprising a thin substrate supporting a dyecoat containing one or more uniformly spread dyes
- printing is effected by heating selected discrete areas of the dyesheet while the dyecoat is pressed against a dye-receptive surface of a receiver sheet, thereby causing dye to transfer to corresponding areas of the receiver.
- the shape of the image transferred is determined by the number and locations of the discrete areas which are subjected to heating
- Full colour prints can be produced by printing with different coloured dyecoats sequentially in like manner, and the different coloured dyecoats are usually provided as discrete uniform panels arranged in a repeated sequence along a ribbon-shaped dyesheet
- High resolution photograph-like prints can be produced by thermal transfer printing using appropriate printing equipment, such as a programmable thermal print head or laser printer, controlled by electronic signals derived from a video, computer, electronic still camera, or similar signal generating apparatus
- a typical thermal print head has a row of tiny selectively energizable heaters, spaced to print six or more pixels per millimetre, often with two heaters per pixel
- Laser printers require absorbers to convert the laser radiation to heat, usually in or under the dyecoat, and similarly produce the print by transferring dyes to the receiver pixel by pixel
- the transfer mechanism is believed to depend very much on the conditions under which printing is carried out Thus for example, when using a thermal head
- thermal transfer prints are liable to be affected by exposure to uv radiation as present for example in sunlight
- US Patent Specification No 4522881 discloses a protective overlay of 10 ⁇ m thickness consisting of a polyester resin containing organic uv absorbers such as benzophenones and benzot ⁇ azoles in an amount of 0 2% by weight
- a 10 ⁇ m thick overlay can, when applied, have edge problems, i ⁇ the edges can be jagged due to incomplete cut-through and/or incomplete adhesion and ideally, the overlay should have a thickness of 2 to 5 ⁇ m
- such thin overlays must contain a much greater quantity of the absorber and it has been found that at such quantity there is a deleterious effect on the property of the overlay as a barrier to plasticisers
- such UV absorbers are known to be prone to loss due to photochemical consumption and can crystallise out resulting in migration to the surface causing an undesirable blooming effect
- a protective overlay comprising a transparent film of polymeric material having dispersed therein zinc oxide or surface stabilised titanium dioxide
- the stabilisation of the surface of the titanium dioxide is important because the absorbance of uv radiation results in the formation on the surface of the particles of t ⁇ valent titanium ions linked to hydroxyl radicals which can further react to form highly reactive species which have an adverse effect on the photo-oxidative stability of the dyes in the printed image
- the surface stabilisation may be carried out by any of the means well known in the art such as coating with alumina, silica or zirconium or mixtures thereof
- the polymeric material has a Tg of between 50 and 200°C
- Polyesters and acrylic polymers are particularly suitable as are the polymers disclosed in WO-A- 96/14993 as overcoming the problem of microscopic cracks being formed in the overlay by excessive flexing of the print on which it is mounted
- the zinc oxide or titanium dioxide is preferably present in an amount of 1 to 400%, more preferably 25 to 100%, on weight of binder resin
- the overlay may have a thickness of 0 1 to 25 ⁇ m, preferably 1 to 5 ⁇ m Such a thin overlay is difficult to handle without some form of support
- the overlay is, therefore, preferably mounted on a temporary carrier sheet to form a transfer foil
- the carrier sheet is placed over the print and heat and pressure are applied to the sheet, for example by means of a hot roll laminator or a thermal head, to cause the overlay to adhere to the print
- the transfer can be effected simultaneously over the whole print, and the carrier is then removed after the transfer is complete
- transfer may be progressive, e g using heated rollers or a thermal head to transfer the topcoat line by line, and it is then generally more convenient to remove the carrier progressively as it emerges from the rolls or thermal head
- a transfer foil comprising a carrier sheet and a thermally transferable overlay, the overlay comprising a transparent film of polymeric material having dispersed therein zinc oxide or surface stabilised titanium dioxide
- the carrier sheet must be formed of material able to withstand the transfer temperatures Paper can be used, but the thicker the sheet the more transfer energy is required, and polymer films, such as PET film, typically less than 30 ⁇ m thick according to the manner in which the barrier composition is to be transferred is preferred
- a carrier sheet of about 12 ⁇ m thickness is suitable when using a hot roller laminator unit, but a heat-resistant back-coated film of 5-7 ⁇ m thickness is preferred when using a thermal head
- the latter may be primed with a cross-linked resin, to prevent fusion between the carrier and the transferring overlay
- Such primes applied effectively in known manner remain on the carrier as it is stripped off
- Other coatings featuring one or more of the many known release agents or releasing binders, can be provided instead of or in addition to the cross-linked prime, but with such materials there is a chance that at least some will transfer with the cover material This can be undesirable in a number of applications, especially those requiring lamination of the print to a security cover
- the overlay of the invention may also be used in conjunction with silver halide prints
- the following coating solutions were prepared by mixing binder, uv-absorber and solvent (ethyl methyl ketone) in a high shear mixer for 45 minutes
- NEOCRYL B811 ® is a poly methyl methacrylate of molecular weight 40,000 available from ICI
- VYLON GK640® is a polyester of molecular weight 20,000 available from Toyobo UV-TITAN L181 , L230 and L530® are surface modified, ultrafine, titanium dioxides having crystal size (in nm) of 20, 17-33 and 30 -35 respectively and specific surface area ( in m2/g) of 60-75, 50-60 and 50-60 respectively, available from Kemira
- P25 is an ultrafine titanium dioxide having crystal size of 21 and specific surface area of 35-65 available from Degussa.
- CYASORB UV-24® is a 2,2 d ⁇ hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone available from Cytec Industries
- polyester film having a heat resistant back coat and a cross-linked subcoat was coated with the above formulations using a Meier bar to produce coatings having a wet thickness of approximately 12 ⁇ m which were dried for 1 minute at 1 10° C to produce overlay samples.
- each sample was applied using the print head of a thermal transfer printer to a pre-p ⁇ nted test image on a thermal transfer printing receiver sheet ( ICI Imagedata CP15), the image including a black area having an Optical Density of 1 0 (as measured on a Macbeth TR1224 Densitometer) formed by superpositioning of yellow, magenta and cyan dyes
- the samples were subjected to the following tests for adhesion, image fading , barrier properties to dye transfer in the presence of a plasticiser and flashing (le sharpness of the edges of the transferred overlay)
- a strip of adhesive tape (3M "Magic Tape") is firmly adhered to the overlaid print and 0 then removed The area of overlay remaining adhered to the print is expressed as a percentage of the total area initially covered by the tape
- the overlaid black area is subjected to 3-day accelerated hghtfastness testing at 50% RH in a C ⁇ 35 Weatherometer (Atlas Electric Devices Company) using a Xenon arc lamp giving 15 a total energy of 390 J/m2 and an irradiance of 1 5 W/m2 measured at 420nm Image fading is expressed as the percentage reduction in optical density
- the overlaid black panel is placed in contact with a transparent PVC sheet containing approximately 24% d ⁇ -(2-ethyl hexyl) phthalate plasticiser and placed under a load of 1 2 kg for 20 60 hours at a temperature of 50° C After allowing cooling to ambient temperature, the PVC sheet is removed and the degree of transfer of print to dye is assessed by examining the PVC sheet against a white surface
- edges are examined for jaggedness and/or 25 non-adherence to the print
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JP10509199A JP2000516865A (en) | 1996-08-16 | 1997-08-14 | Protective overlay for dye thermal transfer prints |
DE69701743T DE69701743T2 (en) | 1996-08-16 | 1997-08-14 | PROTECTIVE LAYERS FOR THERMAL DYE TRANSFER PRINTING IMAGES |
EP97936786A EP0918645B1 (en) | 1996-08-16 | 1997-08-14 | Protective overlays for thermal dye transfer prints |
US09/242,411 US6083872A (en) | 1996-08-16 | 1997-08-14 | Protective overlays for thermal dye transfer prints |
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