Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company

Hideaki Kumada

Takeshi Yoshikawa

Yasunori Kimura

Motohiko Kashioka

Akifumi Kuwabara

Hiromi Yokoyama

Toru Ohmura

Tatsuya Nakao

A thermal transfer recording method forms a pattern on a marking film, which is a plastic film containing a heat adhesive resin or a plastic film on which a heat-sensitive image-receiving layer, composed mainly of a heat adhesive resin, is formed. A thermal transfer ribbon is prepared by forming a heat-melting ink layer on one surface of a substrate and is used to form the pattern on the marking film. The above method permits the facile formation of a fine or complicated multi-color character or pattern on a marking film in a quick thermal transfer operation at a low cost.

Method of thermal transfer recording on marking film

An image receptor sheet for use in a thermal transfer method using a thermal transfer material having a thermal transfer layer composed mainly of a thermoplastic resin, which image receptor sheet comprises a substrate and an image receptor layer containing sucrose benzoate, exhibits excellent image-receiving performance and adhesion to a transferred image and which gives an image transfer product excellent in scratch resistance, abrasion resistance and outdoor weatherability.

Image receptor sheet for thermal transfer

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Hideaki Kumada