| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To enable printing with energy conservation, by sequentially providing a heat generating resistor layer, a conductor layer, an ink release layer and a heat-fusible ink layer on an anisotropic conductive layer comprising a metallic material filling a multiplicity of micropores opened in the thickness direction of an aluminum base. CONSTITUTION:A printing head 8 is slidden while being pressed against the surface of an anisotropic conductive layer 1 of a thermal transfer recording medium. According to an electric signal from the head 8, an electric current is passed through a metallic material 12 filling micropores in the layer 1 to a heat generating resistor layer 2, whereby heat is generated to melt a heat-fusible ink layer 5 at that part, and the ink layer thus melted is transferred onto a receiving material 6 on a back pressing member 7 as a transferred ink layer 51. The surface of the recording medium is a flat surface with the metallic material 12 exposed on the surface of the anisotropic conductive layer 1, and this structure reduces contact resistance at the type of dynamic contact of recording electrodes with the conductive layer 1. Therefore, damage of the surface of the recording medium is alleviated, the useful life of the medium is prolonged. In addition, the loss of heat-generating energy in a heat generating circuit for printing is reduced, and generation of heat at parts other than the layer 2 is restrained. |
