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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1995
Filed:
May. 24, 1994
Kouji Ikeda, Katano, JP;
Atsushi Sogami, Sanda, JP;
Masanori Yoshikawa, Neyagawa, JP;
Yoshihisa Fujimori, Neyagawa, JP;
Nobuyoshi Taguchi, Ikoma, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
A thermal transfer recording apparatus that can arbitrarily perform any one of outputting operations of a sublimable dyestuff image, a thermoplastic ink image, and a mixed picture image which combines a sublimable dyestuff image with a thermoplastic ink image, on a plain recording paper is disclosed. The apparatus employs a dyeable layer which is carried on a substrate sheet usually shared by a plurality of sublimable dyestuff-carrying layers. The dyeable layer is first transferred to a first intermediate transfer medium having a certain mold releasing or parting property. Sublimable dyestuffs are then selectively transferred into the dyeable layer to form a sublimable dyestuff image thereon, which thereafter is transferred to the paper. For obtaining the mixed picture image, the thermoplastic ink image on the second intermediate transfer medium is transferred to the dyeable layer on the first intermediate transfer medium on which the sublimable dyestuff image has already been formed, and thereafter the dyeable layer is transferred to the paper.