Image-forming system
CA 2243722 A1 · Owner: Orita, Hiroshi · Inventors: Suzuki, Minoru; Saito, Hiroyuki; Suzuki, Katsuyoshi
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In an image-forming system, an image-forming substrate is used, which has a sheet of paper, and a layer of microcapsules coated over the sheet of paper. The layer of microcapsules includes at least one type of microcapsules filled with an ink. A shell wall of each microcapsule is formed of resin, which exhibits a temperature/pressure characteristic such that each of the microcapsules is squashed under a predetermined pressure when being heated to a predetermined temperature, thereby discharging the dye out of the shell wall. A printer, having a roller platen and a thermal head, forms an image on the substrate. The platen locally exerts the pressure on the microcapsule layer. The tnermal …
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- Filed July 21, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 21, 2018.
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