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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2000
Akio Miyamoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Kouya Kawabata, Shizuoka, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
In order to transfer a transfer recording layer in a transfer medium onto the surface of a receptor , a solution that lowers the transfer temperature or a sticky solution is applied image-wise to the surface of either the transfer recording layer or the receptor so as to form a latent image; then, whichever of the transfer medium or the receptor that have the latent image formed thereon or both are heated by a thermal drying means to evaporate at least a portion of the solvent contained in the formed latent image; subsequently, the transfer medium and the receptor are heated, with the surface of the transfer recording layer in intimate contact with that of the receptor , so that the transfer recording layer in areas corresponding to the ones where the latent image has been formed is transferred onto the receptor .