Method receiver medium and apparatus for dye sublimation transfer printing

摘要

An image printed onto a receiver sheet (6) by dye sublimation transfer printing is fixed in the receiver sheet (6) by a flash of infrared rich light from e.g. xenon or krypton flash tubes (2). The receiver sheet (6) is mounted on a glass support plate (4). A reflector (3) directs the light towards the receiver sheet (6), and a reflector (5) reflects back infrared light which has passed through the receiver sheet (6). Instead of or in addition to using infrared light, a flash of ultraviolet and/or any other invisible electromagnetic radiation could be used.