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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1991
Itsuo Takanashi, Kamakura, JP;
Hideshi Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Toshinori Takahashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yutaka Mizoguchi, Koshigaya, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A method for transferring a hot-melt transparent protective material comprising steps of; contacting an ink sheet on which one or more color hot-melt ink layers have been provided with a moving recording medium, pressing and heating a thermal head system having an array of heat elements from above the ink sheet to print desired information, contacting a protective material sheet on which a hot-melt transparent protective material layer has been provided, with a printed surface of the recording medium, and pressing and heating the thermal head system from above the protective material sheet to transfer the hot-melt transparent protective material onto a surface of the picture and to apply thereon an overcoat of the hot-melt transparent protective material having a specific pattern. Another method for transferring a hot-melt transparent protective material comprises a step of transferring the hot-melt transparent protective material plural times onto the surface of the picture.