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(11) EP 0 385 425 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
03.04.1991 Bulletin 1991/14

(43) Date of publication A2:
05.09.1990 Bulletin 1990/36

(21) Application number: 90103872.9

(22) Date of filing: 28.02.1990
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: B41M 5/38
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR IT

(30) Priority: 01.03.1989 JP 50725/89

(71) Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
Tokyo 160 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Kitamura, Shigehiro
    Hino-shi, Tokyo 191 (JP)
  • Koshizuka, Kunihiro
    Hino-shi, Tokyo 191 (JP)
  • Abe, Takao
    Hino-shi, Tokyo 191 (JP)

(74) Representative: Türk, Gille, Hrabal, Leifert 
Brucknerstrasse 20
40593 Düsseldorf
40593 Düsseldorf (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Thermal transfer recording medium


    (57) The improved thermal transfer recording medium comprises a support coated with a first heat-softening layer which in turn is coated with a second heat-softening layer, said first heat-softening layer containing a heat-­fusible material and said second heat-softening layer containing a polymer based on an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester.





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