Image recording apparatus for two-sided thermal recording
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorKunio Hakkaku
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus in which the thermal recording material has a transparent support which is provided with a plurality of transparent thermal color-developing layers. The transparent thermal color-developing layers are successively heated and developed in their respective colors while the thermal recording material is transported, to recording an image onto the thermal record material. The image recording apparatus contains a setting unit for judging the position at which the image is to be recorded, to set heating timing. Accordingly, it is possible to cause the color-developed positions of the respective transparent color-developing layers on the thermal recording material to be in agreement with each other.
Claims18
An image recording apparatus for use with a thermal recording material having a transparent support which is provided, on respective sides thereof, with at least one transparent thermal color-developing layer, said respective layers being developable in respective different colors, and wherein said transparent thermal color-developing layers are separately heated and developed to record an image on the thermal recording material, said image recording apparatus comprising:
- transporting means having a loop-like transport path for transporting said thermal recording material in a loop manner;
- means for disengaging said thermal recording material from said transport path and subsequently causing said thermal recording material to reenter said transport path in an orientation reversed from that when said material last entered said transport path;
- a recording head arranged along said transport path and operative during each transportation of said thermal recording material through said transport path to heatprocess a corresponding transparent thermal color-developing layer, thereby developing in color the transparent thermal color-developing layer;
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- setting means for judging a position at which said image is to be recorded on said thermal recording material during each transportation thereof through said transport path, for setting timing of the heat processing using said recording head.
An image recording apparatus for use with a thermal recording material in the form of a sheet and having a transparent support which is provided, at respective sides, thereof with at least one transparent thermal color-developing layer, said respective layers being developable in respective different colors, and wherein said transparent thermal color-developing layers are successively separately heated and developed to record a color image on the thermal recording material, said image recording apparatus comprising:
- transporting means having a loop-like transport path for transporting said thermal recording material in a loop manner:
- means for forming a thermal recording material insertion section with respect to said transport path, including means for dispensing said thermal recording material from said transport path and subsequently reinserting the disengaged thermal recording material into said transport path in an orientation reversed from that when said thermal recording material was last inserted into said transport path;
- a recording head arranged along said transport path in facing relation to one side of said thermal recording material and operative at each transportation of said thermal recording material through said transport path to heat-process a corresponding one of said transparent thermal color-developing layers, thereby developing in color the transparent thermal color-developing layer;
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- setting means for judging a position at which said image is to be recorded on said thermal recording material during each transportation thereof through said transport path, for setting timing of the heat processing using said recording head.
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