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PURPOSE:To improve the use efficiency of an ink sheet, by providing a capstan for transferring recording paper at a constant speed while taking up the same and a capstan for winding an ink sheet at a peripheral speed specific with respect to said speed to transfer the same. CONSTITUTION:An ink sheet 12 and recording paper 13 are fed in the direction shown by an arrow D by a platen 14 and thermal transfer recording is performed by a thermal head 11. At this time, the peripheral speed of a capstan 18 is set so as to become 1/n (n is a positive integer of 1 or more) the peripheral speed of a capstan 15 and the ink sheet 12 is brought into contact with the capstan 18 under pressure by a pinch roller 19 and stably transferred at a transfer speed 1/n the transfer speed of the recording paper 13. After the recording of the first color is finished, the head 11 is spaced apart from the platen 14 and the pinch roller 19 is also spaced apart from the capstan 18 and the recording paper 13 is transferred to the recording start position of the first color. At the same time, the ink sheet 12 is taken up to the recording start position of the second color by a take-up reel 21 to perform the recording of the second color. By this constitution, the use efficiency of the ink sheet can be enhanced.
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