Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Seiichi Tanabe

Toshinori Takahashi

Keiji Ihara

Yoshitaka Suzuki

Osamu Goto

Thermal transfer printing method and apparatus are provided to make initial character image data left on a spent ink ribbon illegible. In the method, after forming an initial character image on an ink layer in black of the ink ribbon, a forefront of the ink layer is aligned with a forefront position of an intermediate transfer film. Then, overwrite character image data is applied on a thermal head to produce a first superimpose character image on the ribbon and a first superimpose character image on the film. After that, the forefront position of the ink layer is shifted from the forefront position of the film by a predetermined distance and the overwrite character image data is applied on the thermal head to produce a second superimpose character image on the ribbon and a second superimpose character image on the film.

Thermal transfer printing method and apparatus

Thermal transfer printing method and apparatus are provided to make initial character image data left on a spent ink ribbon illegible. In the method, after forming an initial character image FGion an ink layerin black of the ink ribbon, a forefront position Sof the ink layeris aligned with a forefront position Sof an intermediate transfer film. Then, overwrite character image data UGDis applied on a thermal headto produce a first superimpose character image KGon the ribbonand a first superimpose character image KGon the film. After that, the forefront position Sof the ink layeris shifted from the forefront position Sof the filmby a predetermined distance and further, the overwrite character image data UGDis applied on the thermal headto produce a second superimpose character image KGon the ribbonand a second superimpose character image KGon the film. In this way, the initial character image data left on the ribbonand the filmcan be together brought into illegible condition.

A card manufacturing method for manufacturing the card and a card manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing the card are provided. The cardincludes a card basea first receptor layerarranged on one side of the card baseto contain a sublimation-ink imagea protecting layer OClaminated on the first receptor layerand an invisible-ink imageformed on the protecting layer OCOwing to the interposition of the protecting layer OCbetween the sublimation-ink imageand the invisible-ink imagethe cardis capable of suppressing color fading of a sublimation ink in the imagein spite of a card structure where the sublimation ink and an invisible ink are printed so as to overlap each other, allowing the cardto be used for a long time.

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