Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitoshi Kishino

Yasuyuki Tamura

Nobuyuki Kuwabara

Makoto Takamiya

Kosuke Yamamoto

Tadashi Yamamoto

Haruhiko Takahashi

A heat transfer recording device which performs recording by heating a heat transfer medium to transfer the ink possessed by the heat transfer medium onto an image-receiving medium, thereby effecting recording on the image-receiving medium. The device having: a platen; a recording head having a plurality of heat-generating elements capable of heat generating; and a pressing member for pressing the recording head against the platen under a pressing force of 800 gf/cm to 3500 gf/cm.

Thermal transfer recording method and thermal transfer recording device

The present invention provides a heat transfer recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium by selectively applying thermal energy by a recording head, comprises: conveying means for conveying a transfer medium, a recording head for selectively applying the energy to the transfer medium, pressing means for changing a pressing force of the recording head, tension means for changing a conveying tension on the transfer medium, peeling angle changing means for changing an angle of the transfer medium peeled from the recording medium; and control means for changing the conveying tension on the transfer medium or/and the peeling angle in response to the change in the pressing force of the recording head. The present invention further provides a heat transfer recording method for recording an image on a recording medium by selectively applying thermal energy by a recording head, wherein: when a pressing force of the recording head is increased, a tension on a transfer medium at a downstream side of the transfer medium with respect to the recording head is increased, or a tension on the transfer medium at an upstream side of the transfer medium with respect to the recording head is decreased, or a peeling angle of the transfer medium peeled from the recording medium is increased.

Heat transfer recording method

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Kawasaki, Japan

Hitoshi Kishino