WO1998007574A1 - Thermal bleaching of infrared dyes - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method of bleaching a particular class of infrared dyes, which may be used as photothermal converters in colorant transfer media, by bringing the dyes into contact with a 4-alkyl or 4-unsubstituted 1 ,4-dihydropyridine derivative.
- the method provides an effective means of improving the fidelity of colored images formed via laser thermal transfer of colorant from a donor to a receptor.
- a donor sheet comprising a layer of colorant is placed in contact with a receptor, an IR absorber being present in one or both of the donor sheet and receptor. Most commonly, the IR absorber is present only in the donor.
- the assembly is exposed to a pattern of IR radiation, normally from a scanning laser source, the radiation is absorbed by the IR absorber, causing a rapid build-up of heat in the exposed areas, which in turn causes transfer of colorant from the donor to the receptor in those areas.
- a multi-color image can be assembled on a common receptor.
- the system is particularly suited to the color proofing industry, where color separation information is routinely generated and stored electronically and the ability to convert such data into hardcopy via digital address of "dry" media is seen as an advantage.
- the heat generated in the donor element may cause colorant transfer by a variety of mechanisms. For example, there may be a rapid build up of pressure as a result of decomposition of binders or other ingredients to gaseous products, causing physical propulsion of colorant material to the receptor (ablation transfer), as disclosed in US-A-5,171,650 and W090/12342.
- the colorant and associated binder materials may transfer in a molten state (melt-stick transfer), as disclosed in JP63-319192 and EP- A-0602893. Both of these mechanisms produce mass transfer, i.e., there is essentially 0% or 100% transfer of colorant depending on whether the applied energy exceeds a certain threshold. Diffusion or sublimation transfer involves a different mechanism in which a colorant is diffused (or sublimed) to the receptor without co-transfer of binder. This process enables the amount of colorant transferred to vary continuously with the input energy. Examples of this process are disclosed, for example, in US-A-5, 126,760.
- a problem common to all these imaging methods is that of transfer of some or all of the IR absorber along with the colorant. Unless the IR absorber is completely colorless, the final image is contaminated and not a true color reproduction, and hence unacceptable for high quality proofing purposes. Attempts have been made to minimize co-transfer by placing the IR absorber in a layer separate from the colorant, which may affect the sensitivity, and to find IR absorbers with minimal visible absorption (see, for example, EP-A-0157568). In practice, however, there is nearly always some residual absorption, which has limited the usefulness of the technology. If the IR absorber is present in the receptor from the outset, as disclosed, for example, in WO94/04368, then the problem of contamination and color fidelity is even more acute.
- US-A-5,219,703 discloses laser-induced thermal dye transfer using heat transferable dyes, bleachable and heat transferable near-infrared absorbing sensitizers, acid photogenerating compounds and optionally near-ultraviolet absorbing sensitizers.
- the combination of the near-infrared absorbing sensitizer and acid photogenerating compounds effects transfer of the heat transferable dyes and bleaching of the near-infrared absorbing sensitizer to eliminate unwanted visible light absorption.
- the acid photogenerating compound may be present in either the dye donor or dye receiver element. If the acid photogenerator is in the dye donor, bleaching will occur upon initial exposure of the dye donor to near-infrared or near- ultraviolet radiation. If present in the dye receiver element, bleaching will occur upon subsequent exposure of the dye receiver to near-infrared or near-ultraviolet radiation.
- EP-A-0675003 discloses the use of thermal bleaching agents in laser thermal transfer imaging, and in particular the use of amines, amine-generating species or carbanion-generating species to bleach cationic dyes such as tetra-arylpolymethine dyes and amine cation radical dyes.
- the bleaching agents are typically located in a resin layer on the surface of the receptor, or are brought into contact with the image in a separate transfer step subsequent to the laser transfer step(s).
- the preferred bleaching agents are carbanion-generating species, such as quaternary ammonium salts of arylsulphonylacetic acids.
- an imaging method comprising the sequential steps of : (a) assembling in mutual contact a receptor sheet and a colorant donor sheet, said colorant donor sheet comprising a support and a layer of thermally transferable colorant, and at least one of said receptor sheet and said colorant donor sheet comprising an infrared-absorbing tetraarylpolymethine dye which has a polymethine chain of at least 5 carbon atoms, each terminal carbon atom of said chain bearing two aryl substituents, and a maximum of three of said aryl groups bearing a tertiary amino substituent;
- Rl is H or an alkyl group
- R2 is H, an alkyl group, or an aryl group
- R • 3 -R are independently selected from the group of alkyl groups and aryl groups (including fused rings formed from R* ⁇ together with R2 or R-** and/or fused rings formed from R ⁇ together with R2 or R ⁇ ); and each Z is independently oxygen or a single bond (i.e., R4 is directly bonded to the carbonyl group).
- the bleaching agent may be provided in the receptor. In the alternative, the bleaching agent is brought into contact with the image residing on the receptor sheet after separation of the donor and receptor sheets.
- the invention further provides a receptor element for use in laser thermal transfer imaging comprising a substrate and a resin layer containing a compound of formula I, said receptor element being otherwise essentially free from photosensitive or other image forming chemicals.
- the invention further provides a bleaching agent donor element (i.e., a bleaching sheet) for use in laser thermal transfer imaging comprising a substrate and a resin layer containing a compound of formula I, said bleaching sheet being otherwise essentially free from photosensitive or other image forming chemicals.
- a bleaching agent donor element i.e., a bleaching sheet
- Compounds of formula I are unexpectedly found to act as thermal bleaching agents towards certain infrared-absorbing tetraarylpolymethine dyes (TAPM dyes) which are frequently used as photothermal converters in laser transfer media.
- TAPM dyes infrared-absorbing tetraarylpolymethine dyes
- thermal bleaching agent used herein refers to bleaching agents which do not require exposure to light to become active, but will bleach dyes at ambient or elevated temperatures.
- bleaching means a substantial reduction in absorptions giving rise to color visible to the human eye, regardless of how this is achieved. For example, there may be an overall reduction in the intensity of the absorption, or it may be shifted to non-interfering wavelengths, or there may be a change in shape of the absorption band, such as, a narrowing, sufficient to render the IR absorber colorless.
- Figure 1 is a plot of optical density at 830 nm vs. heating time (i.e., storage of laminated donor-receptor assemblies at 100EC).
- the thermal bleaching agent of formula I (above) may be present from the outset in a receptor layer on the surface of the receptor element, but it is equally possible to deposit the thermal bleaching agent of formula I on the transferred image by appropriate means in an additional step subsequent to step (c) of the imaging method of the invention.
- the latter alternative requires an extra step, it has the advantage that no particular constraints are placed on the nature of the receptor, so that a variety of materials may be used for this purpose, including plain paper and conventional proofing bases.
- the former alternative streamlines the imaging process, but requires the use of a specially-prepared receptor.
- the image residing on the receptor element after step (c) may be further transferred to a second receptor which comprises a layer containing a thermal bleaching agent of formula I.
- R ⁇ is preferably H or an alkyl group of up to 5 carbon atoms
- R 2 is preferably H or an alkyl group of up to 15 carbon atoms or an aryl group of up to 10 carbon atoms
- R- and R ⁇ are preferably alkyl groups of up to 15 carbon atoms
- R ⁇ and R ⁇ are preferably alkyl groups of up to 5 carbon atoms
- Z is preferably oxygen.
- alkyl group includes ether groups (e g , CH2CH2CH2-O-), haloalkyls, nitroalkyls, carboxyalkyls, hydroxyalkyls, sulfoalkyls, etc.
- the phrase "alkyl moiety" is limited to the inclusion of only pure hydrocarbon alkyl chains, such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, t- butyl, cyclohexyl, iso-octyl, octadecyl, and the like.
- Substituents that react with active ingredients, such as very strongly electrophilic or oxidizing substituents would of course be excluded by the ordinarily skilled artisan as not being inert or harmless.
- any or all of the substituents R ⁇ - R6 may be chosen so as to exert a ballasting effect by virtue of their size or chemical properties, to modify the diffusibility of the bleaching agents of formula I. If the bleaching agents are to be placed in a receptor layer prior to the colorant transfer process, it is important that they remain in that layer and do not migrate to the donor sheet when it is assembled in contact with the receptor, which might cause premature bleaching of the IR dye. Bulky and/or polar substituents may be used to restrict the mobility of the bleaching agent.
- the reactivity of the thermal bleaching agents of formula I varies with the identity of the substituent R* .
- Compounds in which R-* is H show the highest reactivity, followed by those in which R' is alkyl of up to about 5 carbon atoms.
- Rl is an aryl group such as phenyl
- the thermal bleaching action is almost totally suppressed.
- the compounds of formula I may be prepared by known methods, e.g., by an adaptation of the Hantsch pyridine synthesis.
- TAPM dyes suitable for use in the invention are well known in the literature and are disclosed for example in US-A-5135842 and may be represented by formula II:
- Ar-* to Ar ⁇ are aryl groups which may be the same or different such that a maximum of three of the aryl groups represented by Ar** to Ar 1 * bear a tertiary amino substituent (preferably in the 4-position), and X is an anion.
- a maximum of three of the aryl groups represented by Ar** to Ar 1 * bear a tertiary amino substituent (preferably in the 4-position)
- X is an anion.
- at least one, but no more than two, of said aryl groups bear a tertiary amino substituent.
- the aryl groups bearing said tertiary amino substituents are preferably attached to different ends of the polymethine chain. That is, preferably Ar ⁇ or Ar* ⁇ and Ar or Ar ⁇ bear the tertiary amine substituents.
- tertiary amino groups examples include dialkylamino groups (such as dimethylamino, diethylamino, etc.), diarylamino groups (such as diphenylamino), alkylarylamino groups (such as N- methylanilino), and heterocyclic groups such as pyrrolidino, morpholino or piperidino.
- the tertiary amino group may form part of a fused ring system, e.g., one or more of Ar*- to Ar ⁇ may represent a julolidine group.
- the aryl groups represented by Ar 1 to Ar 4 may comprise phenyl, naphthyl, or other fused ring systems, but phenyl rings are preferred.
- substituents which may be present on the rings include alkyl groups (preferably of up to 10 carbon atoms), halogen atoms (such as Cl, Br, etc.), hydroxy groups, thioether groups and alkoxy groups.
- Substituents which donate electron density to the conjugated system are particularly preferred.
- Substituents especially alkyl groups of up to 10 carbon atoms or aryl groups of up to 10 ring atoms, may also be present on the polymethine chain.
- the anion X is derived from a strong acid (e.g., HX should have a pKa of less than 3, preferably less than 1).
- Suitable identities for X include CIO4,
- Preferred dyes include:
- the relevant dyes may be synthesized by known methods, e.g., by conversion of the appropriate benzophenones to the corresponding 1, 1- diarylethylenes (by the Wittig reaction, for example), followed by reaction with a trialkyl orthoester in the presence of strong acid HX.
- the dyes of formula II generally absorb in the 700 to 900 nm region, making them suitable for diode laser address.
- JP63 -319191, JP63 -319192, US-A- 4,950,639, EP-A-0602893 and EP-A-0675003 disclose their use as absorbers in laser addressed thermal transfer media, but of these references only the last-named addresses the problem of co-transfer of these dyes with the colorant, which gives a blue cast to the transferred image because the TAPM dyes generally have absorption peaks which tail into the red region of the spectrum.
- EP-A-0675003 discloses the use of nucleophiles for the purpose of bleaching the relevant dyes, and in particular the use of amines and of carbanions generated by thermal decomposition of arylsulphonylacetate salts, the latter being preferred. It has now been found that the compounds of formula 1 also bleach certain TAPM dyes cleanly and effectively under thermal conditions. Furthermore, coatings comprising the compounds of formula I are stable on extended storage and show no tendency for yellowing, which has proved to be a problem with the carbanion precursors which are the preferred bleaching agents according to the prior art.
- 4,4- disubstituted analogues such as the 4,4-dimethyl derivative are totally inert towards the TAPM dyes, whether photoexcited or not.
- the thermal bleaching action of the compounds of formula I appears to be restricted to the particular subset of the TAPM class defined earlier, since little or no bleaching is observed when the compounds are tested against IR absorbers of other classes, such as amine cation radical dyes, squarylium dyes or phthalocyanines, or TAPM dyes in which all four aryl groups bear a tertiary amino substituent.
- the donor element apart from the use of a suitable TAPM dye as the IR absorber (where applicable), the only constraint is that the colorant should be substantially inert towards the bleaching agent under both ambient conditions and during the termal transfer process.
- the donor element may be adapted for sublimation transfer, ablation transfer, or melt-stick transfer, for example.
- the donor element comprises a substrate (such as polyester sheet), a layer of colorant and the IR absorber, which may be in the same layer as the colorant, in a separate layer, or both.
- the IR absorber may be present in the receptor rather than the donor, as disclosed in International Patent Application No.
- the colorant generally comprises one or more dyes or pigments of the desired color dissolved or dispersed in a binder, although binder- free colorant layers are also possible, as disclosed in International Patent Application No. WO94/04368.
- the colorant comprises dyes or pigments that reproduce the colors shown by standard printing ink references provided by the International Prepress Proofing Association, known as SWOP color references. It is essential that the colorant should be inert towards the bleaching agent.
- preferred donor elements comprise a colorant layer in the form of a dispersion of pigment particles in a binder as this greatly reduces the likelihood of unwanted colorant bleaching.
- Particularly preferred donor elements are of the type disclosed in EP-A-0602893 in which the colorant layer comprises a fluorocarbon compound in addition to pigment and binder.
- the receptor elements used in the invention are entirely conventional.
- the elements typically comprise a substrate, such as paper or plastic sheet, bearing one or more resin coatings, optionally containing the thermal bleaching agent, or alternatively containing the IR absorber as disclosed in International Patent Application No. WO94/04368.
- the choice of the resin for the receptor layer e.g., in terms of Tg, softening point, etc., may depend on the type of transfer involved (e.g., ablation, melt-stick, or sublimation). For example, to promote transfer by the melt-stick mechanism, it may be advantageous to employ similar or identical resins for both the receptor layer and the binder of the colorant donor layer.
- BUTVAR B76 polyvinyl butyral (Monsanto) and similar thermoplastic resins are highly suitable receptor layer materials.
- the receptor layer may present a smooth outer surface, or may present an irregular or roughened surface by incorporation of inert particles of the appropriate dimensions, such as polymer beads, as described, for example, in US-A-4876235.
- the amount of bleaching agent employed may vary considerably, depending on the concentration and characteristics of the IR absorber used, e.g., its propensity for co-transfer with the colorant, the intensity of its visible coloration, etc. Generally, loadings of about 2 weight percent (wt%) to about 25 wt% of the solids in the receptor layer are suitable, and normally loadings are about 5 wt% to about 20 wt%.
- the receptor need not comprise a resin layer, e.g., plain paper may be used as the receptor.
- the procedure for imagewise transfer of colorant from donor to receptor is conventional.
- the two elements are assembled in intimate face-to-face contact, e.g., by vacuum hold down or alternatively by means of the cylindrical lens apparatus described in US-A-5475418, and the assembly scanned by a suitable laser.
- the assembly may be imaged by any of the commonly used lasers, depending on the absorber used, but address by near infrared emitting lasers such as diode lasers and YAG lasers, is preferred.
- Any of the known scanning devices may be used, e.g., flat-bed scanners, external drum scanners or internal drum scanners.
- the assembly to be imaged is secured to the drum or bed, e.g., by vacuum hold-down, and the laser beam is focused to a spot, e.g., of about 20 microns diameter, on the IR-absorbing layer of the donor-receptor assembly.
- This spot is scanned over the entire area to be imaged while the laser output is modulated in accordance with electronically stored image information.
- Two or more lasers may scan different areas of the donor receptor assembly simultaneously, and if necessary, the output of two or more lasers may be combined optically into a single spot of higher intensity.
- Laser address is normally from the donor side, but may be from the receptor side if the receptor is transparent to the laser radiation.
- peeling apart the donor and receptor reveals a monochrome image on the receptor that will in most cases be contaminated by co-transfer of the IR absorber.
- the process may be repeated one or more times using donor sheets of different colors so as to build a multi-color image on a common receptor.
- all that is required to produce a "clean" image is an overall heat treatment of the image to activate or accelerate the bleach chemistry.
- the bleaching agent is present initially in neither the donor nor the receptor, and an additional step is required to bring it into contact with the contaminated image. While this technique requires an extra step, it does allow the use of an uncoated receptor, such as plain paper.
- a suitable dry method is thermal lamination and subsequent peeling of a separate donor sheet (i.e., bleaching sheet) containing the thermal bleaching agent.
- a bleaching agent donor sheet suitable for this purpose typically comprises a substrate (such as polyester film) bearing a layer of a thermoplastic resin (such as polyvinyl butyral, vinyl resins, acrylic resins, etc.) containing the bleaching agent of formula I in an amount corresponding to about 5 wt% to about 25 wt% of the total solids, preferably about 10 wt% to about 20 wt%.
- a bleaching agent donor sheet in accordance with the invention is very similar to that of a receptor element in accordance with the invention, and indeed a single element might well be capable of fulfilling either purpose.
- the receptor elements preferably comprise one or more compounds of formula I of relatively low thermal diffusibility (such as the ballasted derivatives described earlier), while the bleaching agent donor elements preferably comprise one or more compounds of formula I which diffuse readily when heated.
- the receptor to which the colorant image is initially transferred is not the final substrate on which the image is viewed.
- US-A-5, 126,760 discloses thermal transfer of the image from the first receptor to a second receptor for viewing purposes. In such cases, it may be convenient to provide the thermal bleaching agent in the second receptor, and/or to utilize the heat applied in the process of transferring the image to the second receptor to activate the bleaching reaction.
- Infrared absorbing dye D6 (comparison) was PRO JET 830NP , a phthalocyanine dye supplied by Zeneca.
- Bleaching agents Bl - B7 of the invention had the structures shown earlier.
- Compounds Cl and C2 had the formula:
- Cyan pigment (Sun 249-0592) was predispersed in BUTVAR B76 (3 :2 pigment to binder, by weight) in accordance with standard procedures, and supplied in the form of chips.
- This example demonstrates the thermal bleaching of dye Dl by a variety of bleaching agents in accordance with the invention, and also the inability of compound Cl to effect bleaching under thermal conditions.
- a solution (5 wt% solids) of BUTVAR polyvinyl butyral and dye Dl (in the weight ratio 4: 1) was prepared in a mixture of MEK and l-methoxypropan-2-ol (9: 1 by weight), then coated at 24 Fm wet thickness on 50 Fm PET base and oven dried. The resulting coating (Coating A) had an absorbance of 1.1 at 830 nm.
- Coating B BUTVAR polyvinyl butyral (85 parts), compound Bl (15 parts), and MEK (1000 parts) (all parts by weight).
- Example 2 This example demonstrates the use of a ballasted derivative of compound
- Bl Although Bl is shown to be a highly-effective bleaching agent for dyes such as Dl, its tendency to diffuse at ambient temperature is a disadvantage in certain applications. Compound B7 was therefore prepared in the expectation that its bulkier side chains would render it less diffusible When tested in the manner described in Example 1, no bleaching was observed during lamination at room temperature, but 100% bleaching occurred within 3 minutes at 100°C.
- Example 2 tests the bleaching action of compound B2 on a variety of IR dyes.
- the procedure of Example 1 was followed, using compound B2 in Coating B and varying the identity of the dye in Coating A.
- the optical density of the laminate was recorded before and after 2 minutes storage in an oven at 120°C, and the degree of bleaching assessed: Dye Bleaching
- BUTVAR B-76 (15 wt% soln. in MEK) - 20.5
- a portion (11.7 parts) of the resulting solution was mixed with 2.5 parts of a cyan pigment dispersion and 1.8 parts of MEK for 10 minutes, then coated on 100 Fm PET at 36 Fm wet thickness and dried for 3 minutes at 60°C.
- the pigment dispersion was obtained by milling 6 parts cyan pigment chips with 34 parts MEK for 1 hour in a McCrone Micronising Mill.
- the resulting laser-sensitive cyan colorant donor sheet had a reflection OD of 1.2 at 830 nm from the IR dye, and a cyan OD of 1.0.
- a sample of RAINBOW receptor sheet (supplied by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) was washed with acetone to remove its resin coating, and then was coated at 36 Fm wet thickness with a solution of BUTVAR B-76 polyvinyl butyral (10 parts) and Bleaching Agent B2 of the invention (5 parts) in MEK (85 parts), and dried for 3 minutes at 60°C.
- Samples of the donor and receptor were assembled in face-to-face contact on the drum of a laser scanner equipped with a 220 mW laser diode emitting at 830 nm.
- the laser beam focused to a 23 Fm diameter spot, was scanned over the assembly at varying speeds in the range 200-500 cm/second and was modulated in accordance with a test pattern corresponding to 1-99% dots from a 150 line screen.
- a high quality half-tone pattern was transferred to the receptor at all scan rates, except that the cyan image was contaminated by residual absorption from the IR dye (OD 0.8 at 830 nm). However, when the image-bearing receptor was placed in an oven at 140°C for 5 minutes, the 830 nm absorption disappeared completely, without affecting the cyan absorption.
- a bleaching agent donor was prepared by coating a solution of BUTVAR B-76 polyvinyl butyral (10 parts) and Bleaching Agent B2 of the invention (5 parts) in MEK (85 parts) on transparent
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