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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2001
Nobuyoshi Taguchi, Ikoma, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A thermal transfer recording apparatus for recording a glossy and high quality image alleviates or substantially solves at least one of the problems of low recording speed of the image, poor stability of recording, and high running cost of recording. The thermal transfer recording apparatus has an intermediate record support which forms a closed loop and extends over a plurality of drums which are placed separately, and a dye receiving layer transfer section having a dye receiving layer transfer head which faces a part of the intermediate record support on an outer periphery of one drum of the plurality of the drums. The thermal transfer recording apparatus also has an image recording section having at least one image recording head which faces a part of the intermediate record support on an outer periphery of the one drum, and an image transfer section having an image transfer head which faces the intermediate record support inside of the closed loop.