Thermal transfer ink sheet
AssigneeToppan Printing Co., Ltd.
InventorsHikaru Takeuchi, Masato Yoshida, Shiro Nemoto
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Abstract
A thermal transfer ink sheet adopted to be repeatedly reused several times in a printing operation by means of a thermal printer. The thermal transfer ink sheet comprises a sheet-like base such as paper or a plastic film, a hot-melt ink layer stacked on the base with an adhesive layer disposed therebetween, and an ink-holding porous membrane layer filled with hot-melt ink and stacked on the ink layer. Another hot-melt ink layer may be further stacked on the ink-holding porous membrane layer.
Claims13
A reusable thermal transfer ink sheet comprising a sheet material base, a hot-melt ink layer stacked on said base through an adhesive layer, and an ink holding porous membrane layer which is stacked on said ink layer and is filled with hot-melt ink.
A thermal transfer ink sheet comprising a sheet material base, a first hot-melt ink layer stacked on said base through an adhesive layer, an ink holding porous membrane layer which is stacked on said ink layer and is filled with hot-melt ink, and a second hot-melt ink layer stacked on said ink holding porous membrane layer.
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