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US 8,264,511 B2Granted
Printing apparatus and thermal transfer printing method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYoshihiro Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Okamoto
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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYoshihiro Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Okamoto
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Provided is a printing apparatus including: a medium transporting unit configured to transport a printing target medium; a sheet traveling unit configured to allow a thermal transfer sheet, in which a color material layer and a protection layer are formed on a sheet in a line along a travel direction, to travel; a printing unit configured to sequentially and thermally transfer the color material layer and the protection layer onto the printing target medium by applying thermal energy to the printing target medium and the thermal transfer sheet which are sandwiched by the printing unit; and a pressure changing mechanism configured to change the sandwiching force acting on the printing target medium and the thermal transfer sheet so as to have a relationship of force P1<force P2.
A printing apparatus comprising:
A thermal printing method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.