Image producing material

Claim 1

An image producing material which comprises a substrate, an image producing layer and a photosensitive layer in that order and in which, when said material has not yet been exposed to light, the adhesion between said image producing layer and said photosensitive layer is lower than that between said substrate and said image producing layer, whereas, upon exposure to light, the adhesion between said image producing layer and said photosensitive layer becomes higher than that between said substrate and said image producing layer, so that, after exposure, when said photosensitive layer is peeled off, said image producing layer in the exposed area is removed with said photosensitive layer, and said image producing layer in the unexposed area is left on said substrate, said image producing layer being constituted by at least one layer made from a material selected from among a metal, a metal compound and a mixture of a metal and a metal compound, and said photosensitive layer consisting essentially of (A) one or more polymer compound selected from the group consisting of a cellulose ester, a polyamide, a polyester, a polyurethane, a phenoxy resin, a polyvinyl acetal, polyvinyl chloride, a copolymer containing a vinyl chloride component as a constituent element, polyvinyl acetate, a copolymer containing a vinyl acetate component as a constituent element, polyvinylidene chloride, a copolymer containing a polyacrylic ester, a copolymer containing an acrylic ester component as a constituent element, and polyvinyl alcohol, (B) one or more compound of the formula: ##STR3## (wherein R 1 is hydrogen or a methyl group; R 2 is an alkylene group; either one of m and n is 1 or 2 and the other is 2 or 1, i.e., m+n=3), and (C) a photopolymerization initiator.