摘要 |
PURPOSE:To accomplish the title expression of images strongly resemblant to a negative plate on the surface or interior of confectionery or food by providing holes on a resinous sheet on a dot basis to express an image and by transferring thereon a material such as food to be expressed. CONSTITUTION:An object image such as photograph, picture or character is read using an image reader, processed by a computer and sent to a thermal transfer printer to provide a resinous sheet with innumerable holes on a dot basis, and, according to their assembly density, the corresponding image is expressed on the sheet. Thence, said resinous sheet is laid on a confectionery or food followed by rubbing or pressure contact thereon of a material such as food to be expressed to transfer the image, or said sheet is laid on e.g. another film followed by transferring said material thereon, or the internal surface of a mold is covered with said sheet followed by transferring said material on the internal surface, and then a confectionery or food is put thereinto followed by molding. |