Image forming device including intermediate medium
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakemi Yamamoto, Takeshi Asano
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Abstract
To provide an intermediate medium capable of forming an image without gloss and also to provide an image forming device including the intermediate medium. The transfer belt 11 is produced from polyimide by molding techniques using a mold having a surface roughness Rz of between 5 μm and 50 μm. Therefore, the transfer belt 11 produced in this manner also has surface roughness Rz of between 5 μm and 50 μm. An ink image is first formed onto the transfer belt 11, and then, transferred onto a recording sheet S by application of heat and pressure. In this way, an ink image without gloss can be obtained.
Claims23
A transfer device comprising:
- an intermediate medium having a surface having a surface roughness Rz of between 5 μm and 50 μm, the intermediate medium being formed with an image on the surface, the image being formed of phase-changeable ink;
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- a transfer unit that transfers the image from the intermediate medium onto a recording medium, wherein the image transferred from the surface of the intermediate medium, having the surface roughness Rz of between 5 μm and 50 μm, onto the recording medium is a silk image.
An image forming device comprising:
- an intermediate medium having a surface roughness Rz of between 5 μm and 50 μm;
- an image forming unit that forms an image onto the intermediate medium using phase-changeable ink;
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- a transfer unit that transfers the image from the intermediate medium onto a recording medium, wherein the image transferred from the surface of the intermediate medium, having the surface roughness Rz of between 5 μm and 50 μm, onto the recording medium is a silk image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.