Thermal transfer recording medium
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomio Murayama, Yoshiki Kikuchi, Haruhiko Moriguchi, Takashi Ohmori, Fujio Moriguchi
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Abstract
A thermal recording medium has two or more kinds of thermo sensitive ink on a base member thereof, and each of the inks has a different melting point and a different color. At least one of the inks also contains an achromatizing agent for concealing a color of at least one of the inks. The thermal transfer recording medium thus constructed is capable of producing multiple colors on a recording sheet by utilizing a device having only one heating head.
Claims8
A thermal transfer recording medium having a base member, comprising:
- at least two kinds of thermo sensitive ink having different melting points applied to said base member in a mosaic form, and an achromatizing agent contained in at least one of said two or more kinds of thermo sensitive ink, said achromatizing agent being adapted to conceal a desired color when said recording medium is heated to a predetermined temperature.
A thermal recording medium of the type having at least one layer of thermo sensitive ink having a transfer surface for contacting and transferring ink to a recording sheet or the like, said layer comprising at least two kinds of different thermo sensitive inks having different colors and different respective melting points, said two kinds of thermo sensitive inks being exposed at different respective regions of said transfer surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.