Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Tatsuya Morimitsu

Takashi Sato

Osamu Ito

Akihiko Kobayashi

Niro Watanabe

Tomoyuki Marugame

Hiroyuki Kuroki

Michio Shinozaki

Tomio Andoh

Kenjiro Kuroda

Takashi Morishima

Naoaki Shindo

Kazuhisa Hoshino

Kiyoshi Horie

Minoru Inagaki

Yoshiaki Tada

Shigeru Fukai

A thermal dye transfer sheet having a dye layer provided on at least one side of a substrate, which is used for thermal dye transfer recording system carrying out recording by transferring a dye or dyes in the dye layer to a dye-receiving material by heating means, wherein the dye layer contains a pyrazolonemethine type dye of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can be respectively independently selected and are a lower alkyl group which may be substituted, a lower alkenyl group which may be substituted or an aryl group which may be substituted; and

Thermal dye transfer sheet and method for thermal dye recording

An image transfer device for transferring a clear image to a transfer object includes transport device for a transferring film, an image writing device for transferring ink from a transfer ribbon onto the film by a thermal head, a stage for fixing a transfer object, a guiding means for a inked image of the film onto the object on the stage, a transfer roller for transferring the inked image to the object, and a peel roller disposed in the vicinity of the transfer roller for peeling the transferred film from the object.

Image transfer device

An intermediate transfer medium comprises a heat-resistant base sheet and provided thereon a release layer and an image-receiving adhesive layer on which an image pattern is formed by a sublimation transfer means in accordance with image data, said image-receiving adhesive layer, on which said image pattern has been formed, being transferred to a transfer substrate together with said release layer to produce an image-recorded article, wherein said image-receiving adhesive layer is comprised of a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition point of 50.degree. C. or above and a filler added to the thermoplastic resin and selected from the group consisting of an inorganic filler having a melting point of 200.degree. C. or above and an organic filler having a softening point or decomposition point of 200.degree. C. or above.

Intermediate transfer medium and process for producing image-recorded

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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Morimitsu