| abstract |
An intermediate dye image-receiving element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon a separable polyolefin layer, a dye image-receiving layer, and a subbing layer between the polyolefin layer and the dye image-receiving layer, wherein the subbing layer comprises a crosslinked poly(vinyl acetal-co-vinyl alcohol). The intermediate receiver is used in a process for formation of a dye image in an arbitrarily shaped object which 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, subbing layer, polyolefin layer, and 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). |