Thermal Copy Paper

Thermal Copy Paper

 

paper that is transparent to infrared rays and is coated on one side with a thin layer of a heat-sensitive substance; such paper is used in thermography.

The heat-sensitive layer of thermal copy paper consists of waxes (carnauba wax, ceresin, or montan wax); triphenylmethane, rhodamine, or auramine dyes; solid fats; and sometimes plasticizers. Depending on the quality of the coating, the copies obtained may be used as single copies or as matrices for subsequent duplication on a hectograph. Thermal copy papers giving black, red, blue, and green copies with a sheet format of 297 × 210 mm are produced in the USSR.

REFERENCE

Uetskii, M. I. Tekhnicheskaia bumaga dlia razmnozheniia dokumentatsii, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1973.