| abstract |
A process for formation of a dye image in an arbitrarily shaped object includes the following steps: (a) forming a dye transfer image by thermal dye transfer in a dye image-receiving layer of an intermediate dye receiving element comprising the dye image-receiving layer and a support, (b) separating the imaged dye image-receiving layer from the support, (c) placing the separated, imaged, dye image-receiving layer in contact with an arbitrarily shaped final receiver, (d) transferring the dye image out of the dye image-receiving layer and into the final receiver by the action of heat, and (e) removing the dye image-receiving layer from the imaged final receiver resulting from step (d). |