Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.v.

Peter Charles William Butcher

Jeffrey Michael Howell

Apparatus for thermal transfer printing of an image from a thermal retransfer sheet onto an article, includes heating means () adapted to supply heated gas at a variable flow rate. Also disclosed is a method of printing an image, and the resulting printed article.

Thermal transfer printing

Apparatus for thermal transfer printing of an image from a thermal retransfer sheet onto an article, includes heating means adapted to supply a flow of heated gas for causing dye transfer, and oscillating vane means for directing the heated gas in a direction transverse to the direction of flow, for distributing the heated gas over article(s) during dye transfer. Also disclosed is a method of printing an image, and the resulting printed article.

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Tollesbury, United Kingdom

Peter Charles William Butcher