RECORDING/ERASING APPARATUS FOR REVERSIBLE THERMAL RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a thermal recording material from deterioration by lessening a local thermal damage while the printing quality is maintained. SOLUTION: In a recording/erasing apparatus for reversible thermal recording media which records and/or erases visible information to the reversible thermal recording medium 60 to which visible information can be recorded and/or erased by the action of heat energy, there are provided a laser light irradiation device 10 for irradiating a laser light from a laser light irradiation part and a control part 51 for controlling the irradiation of the laser light irradiation device. In the case where plotting lines of the laser light intersect, the control part 51 controls to reduce an irradiation time for the laser light to be applied to an intersecting plotting point A.