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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2000
Akira Naito, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Shiina, Tokyo, JP;
Kazumichi Shibuya, Tokyo, JP;
Masakazu Amahara, Tokyo, JP;
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A thermal transfer recording medium comprising a substrate, and multi-color thermal transfer recording layers, each of the multi-color thermal transfer recording layers being repeatedly formed for each color along the longitudinal direction of the substrate, wherein each of the multi-color thermal transfer recording layers contains a coloring pigment, an amorphous organic polymer and fine particles. One of the multi-color thermal transfer recording layers is formed to have a larger thickness than the other of the multi-color thermal transfer recording layers. Each of the multi-color thermal transfer recording layers which are successively transferred, excluding the color thermal transfer recording layer to be transferred latest, is formed to have an average thickness of 0.6 &mgr;m or less.