THERMOSENSITIVE, POLYMERIC IMAGE RECORDING MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR USE

摘要

An imaging member is prepared by applying to a support a heat-sensitive imaging layer which comprises at least one heat-sensitive polymer capable of undergoing transformation from a hydrophilic to hydrophobic state or hydrophobic to hydrophilic state, wherein the transformation occurs such that the activation energy Ea and the Arrhenius pre-exponential factor A associated with the transformation simultaneously fulfill the relationships: ln(A) >/= 0.4 Ea + 8.84 and ln(A)