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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2002
Shigeru Miyajima, Fuji, JP;
Yoshifumi Noge, Numazu, JP;
Shigeru Miyajima, Fuji, JP;
Yoshifumi Noge, Numazu, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A receiving cloth for thermal transfer recording, including at least a substrate formed of a woven or nonwoven fabric, having opposed sides; an ink receiving layer on one side of the substrate, which receives a heat-melted or softened ink; and a tackifying layer on the other side of the substrate, wherein the ink receiving layer includes at least a hollow particulate material including a gaseous body therein; and a thermoplastic material, and wherein the ink receiving layer has an island/sea structure in which the hollow particulate material is present as an island in a sea of the thermoplastic material. In addition, a thermal printing method using the receiving cloth is also provided.
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