Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Yoshiki Yoshimi

Keishi Kato

Etsuo Shiozawa

In a method of and apparatus for adhesive transfer, an image receiving web comprising a belt-shaped, release agent coated paper and a plurality of transfer sheets having adhesive surfaces and put side by side on the release agent coated paper in the longitudinal direction thereof is used. The transfer sheets are separated one after another from the release agent coated paper, and each separated transfer sheet is wound around a transfer roller with the adhesive surface facing out. The transfer roller is moved to contact a photosensitive material drum carrying a toner image formed thereon, and the toner image is transferred from the photosensitive material drum to the adhesive surface of the transfer sheet while the transfer roller and the photosensitive material drum are rotated. The transfer roller is then moved to contact a push roller, and a supporting sheet is passed together with the transfer sheet between the transfer roller and the push roller, thereby to adhere the transfer sheet to the supporting sheet.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiki Yoshimi