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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1993
Takayuki Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Arata Imabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image-transfer apparatus for producing an aesthetically fine transfer image includes a platen having a cut-off portion on the surface formed for attaching an image-forming material and a transfer cylinder having a cut-off portion on the surface formed for attaching an image receptor. The apparatus allows the introduction of the image-forming material and the image receptor into a nip formed by the platen and the transfer cylinder by the rotation of the platen and the transfer cylinder to transfer an image formed in a photosensitive layer of the image-forming material to the image receptor heated to a transfer temperature. The transfer cylinder, other than the cut-off portion, has a cylindricity of 100 .mu.m or less, a circumferential deviation, measured in the radial direction of the transfer cylinder, of 60 .mu.m or less and a straightness, measured on a cylinder surface, of 60 .mu.m or less when heated to and kept at a transfer temperature.