| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To permit effective recording by effectively utilizing heat energy by a method in which a specific thermal transfer ink is selectively melted or softened on a roll by application of a patterned form of heat or voltage and the periphery of the ink roll is pressingly contacted with a recording medium. CONSTITUTION:The center 11 of an ink roll 1 composed of a thermal transfer ink with a binder containing an amide resin, as represented by the formula (I), where R1 and R2 are each a 1-30C hydrocarbon group, showing an overcooling periphery, is supported by means of a spring 2a. When heat corresponding to a desired printing pattern is supplied to a thermal transfer ink to make up the periphery from a thermal head 3 in contact with the periphery by the action of the spring 2b, the ink is melted or softened in conformity to the heating pattern and at the same time becomes sticky and transferable to recording mediums. Under pressures of a press roll 5 facing the ink roll 1 through a recording medium 4, the thermal transfer ink keeping a patterned sticky state is pressingly transferred to the medium 4 to form a transferred recording image 6. |
