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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2001
Jun Sogabe, Osaka, JP;
Fumio Uetsuji, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiyuki Asabe, Tokyo-to, JP;
Yasutoshi Inoue, Tokyo-to, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A multi-gradation recording method comprising the steps of: providing a thermal transfer recording medium comprising a substrate, a release layer, a first ink layer and a second ink layer provided in this order on the substrate, and carrying out a gradation recording using the thermal transfer recording medium, the step of carrying out a gradation recording comprising: (a) in the case of recording in a middle density/high density region, carrying out a gradation expression based on an area gradation expression by transferring the first ink layer and the second ink layer together, and (b) in the case of recording in a low density region, carrying out a gradation expression by transferring only the second ink layer by causing a cohesive failure in the second ink layer, thereby changing the area of transferred ink per one dot and the thickness of transferred ink dots.