| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To make it possible to widely use the transfer area of a transfer material to which a plurality of colorants are successively and repeatedly arranged, by reversely sending the transfer material by a predetermined distance from a wind-up side to a deliver side by a feed means when the transfer of all colors was finished. CONSTITUTION:When the transfer of all colors was finished, a main control part drives a pulse motor part 209 to rotate a winding core 9 to a counterclockwise direction and a ribbon receiving part 7 is rotated by a predetermined distance to the direction shown by an arrow. By this method, at the start time of transfer, a thermal transfer ribbon 6 is wound around the ribbon receiving part 7 in an amount corresponding to the movement amount of said ribbon when cassette paper Pa is sent to a pinch roller 30 from a transfer start position 93. By this wind-up operation, even the (aXc) region of the thermal transfer ribbon 6 is used at the next start time of transfer, that is, the (a+b)Xc region thereof is used to make it possible to perform transfer and the processing of an image having a large transfer area can be performed. |
