| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To enable a high-quality transfer printing with a high resolving power on a low-surface smoothness paper to be subjected to transfer, by a method wherein a sheet form transfer medium provided with an ink image is used so that the tip end of a planar heating body is brought into contact with the transfer medium on the ink-free side and an ink is melted to be transferred to the paper to be subjected to transfer. CONSTITUTION:As a transfer medium 1, an original form supplied in sheet form with a hot melt ink being applied, a resin film etc. with an image thereon by using the hot melt ink, or the like, can be used. In a heating body 3 formed by bringing a heat source into contact with a material having thermal conductivity, the area of the tip end portion to be brought into contact with the transfer medium is preferably made as small as possible. An impression roller 4 pressing a paper to be subjected to transfer 2 against the transfer medium 1 and simultaneously the transfer medium 1 against the heating body 3 is made of a heat- resistant material. In a printer having the above construction, an ink 5 applied on the transfer medium 1 is melted due to the heat from the heating body 3 and transferred to the body to be subjected to transfer 2, thus becoming an ink 6 on the transfer body. |
