Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Hideki Nishikawa

Katsuyuki Oshima

Kazunobu Imoto

A thermal transfer sheet includes a support and, provided thereon, at least a yellow dye-holding layer, a magenta dye-holding layer, and a cyan dye-holding layer, the dye-holding layers each including a thermal transfer dye and a binder resin, the yellow dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 1 and/or a dye represented by the following formula 2, the magenta dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 3 and at least one dye selected from those represented by the following formulae 4 and 5; and the cyan dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 6: ##STR1##

Method for forming image on object and thermal transfer sheet and

A method for forming an image on an object, including the steps of:

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Hideki Nishikawa