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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuhiro Oota, Tokyo, JP;
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Shinjuku-Ku, JP;
Abstract
A thermal transfer sheet, which includes a transfer layer, is superposed on a transfer receiving article, and while the transfer layer is continuously transferred onto the article by a printer comprising a sheet supplying device, heating device, sheet winding device, measuring device located between the heating and sheet winding devices to measure the tensile strength of the thermal transfer sheet conveyed along a conveyance path, and release device located between the heating and the measuring devices, under conditions including an applied power for printing: 0.15 W/dot and a conveying speed for the thermal transfer sheet: 84.6 mm/sec., the transfer layer transferred on the article is released from a constituent member in contact with the transfer layer of the thermal transfer sheet, has a tensile strength measured by the measuring device of 0.1 N/cm or less.