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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2016
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Sawada, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Takizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Shinjuku-Ku, JP;
Abstract
When a roughened pattern is formed on an image protection layer, a thermal transfer sheet is protected from being damaged or broken. A thermal headis driven and controlled such that an image protection layerof a thermal transfer sheetis thermally transferred to a printing mediumand that a roughened patternis formed on the image protection layerThe roughened patternis made based on a corrected patternB that is obtained by correcting a basic patternA that is a pattern including an island portion formed of a mass of a plurality of high-energy pixelssuch that the high-energy pixelsurrounded by the high-energy pixelsforming an edge area of the island portion is converted to a low-energy pixel