THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a thermal transfer recording medium forming little pressure weld foul on a paper to be transferred generated at the time of thermal printing by an end face line type thermal head and provided with good thermal transfer printability. SOLUTION: A thermal transfer recording medium is provided with an intermediate layer composed mainly of at least a heat fusion substance and/or thermoplastic resin and a thermal transfer ink layer composed mainly of a heat fusion substance and/or thermoplastic resin and a coloring agent formed on a substrate in the above order, and a spherical substance of average particle diameter smaller than the thickness of the ink layer in the thermal transfer ink layer and not melted by the application of heat to a thermal head is contained in the thermal transfer ink layer.