Method for treating thermally transferred image
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsKunihiro Koshizuka, Shigehiro Kitamura, Masataka Takimoto, Tomonori Kawamura
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Abstract
A method for treating a thermally transferred image is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of (1) thermally transferring an image from the ink layer of a ink sheet which comprises a support and a ink layer comprising a sublimation dye provided on the support, to the surface of an image receiving layer of a image receiving element which comprises a support and a image receiving layer provided on the support, by means of imagewise heating by a first thermal head, and (2) heating the surface of the image receiving layer having the transferred image by a second thermal head through a plastic film contacted to the surface of the image receiving layer.
Claims6
A method for treating a series of thermally transferred images comprising the steps of
- serially transferring images from the ink layer of a sublimation ink sheet which comprises a support and an ink layer comprising a sublimation dye provided on the support, to a respective surface of a series of image receiving layers of a series of image receiving elements each of which comprises a support and an image receiving layer provided on the support, by means of imagewise heating by a first thermal head, and, subsequently
- serially heating the surface of each image receiving layer having the transferred sublimation dye image with an amount of thermal energy of 25 mJ/mm.sup.2 to 500 mJ/mm.sup.2 by a second thermal head through a plastic film serially contacted to the surface of each said image receiving layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.