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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2004
Toshinori Takahashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Keiji Ihara, Sagamihara, JP;
Toshinori Takahashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Keiji Ihara, Sagamihara, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
In a process of peeling off a transfer layer of an intermediate transfer film, an amount of energy, which is supplied to a thermal headso as to heat the thermal head, is changed in accordance with a location of the thermal headin a peeling areaP and its neighboring area. The amount of energy is designated to be maximum energy Ewhen the thermal headis positioned in the neighborhood of a boundary area of the peeling areaP while the thermal headrelatively moves from outside the peeling areaP, that is, a non-peeling areaNP to inside the peeling areaP. In a case that the thermal headis positioned in the non-peeling areaNP or outside the peeling areaP, a certain amount of energy is supplied to the thermal headso as to maintain a temperature T of the thermal headat a temperature of less than a predetermined temperature PA while heating the thermal head