(57) A room light-handleable recording material comprises an electrically conductive support
having thereon in sequence (a) a polymeric electrically active conductive (EAC) layer,
a recording layer (b) comprising a dye-forming coupler and an oxidation-reduction
combination comprising an organic silver salt and a reducing agent having an oxidation
product which reacts with the coupler to form image dye. Imagewise passage of currentthrough
the material, possibly achieved by applying a potential across the material and an
exposed photoconductive layer in contact therewith, produces a heat-developable latent
image. Higher current sensitivity of this material is obtained by using as the organic
silver salt a salt of a mercapto-1,2,4-triazole derivative and as the polymerforthe
EAC layera vinyl addition polymer of the structure:
wherein R' is hydrogen or methyl, R2 is aryl or R3COO- where R3 is alkyl or aryl, each X is bromine or chlorine, and n and p are such that the polymer
contains from 50 to 85% by weight of the halogen-containing unit.
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