Printer

A printer in which an ink ribbon and a transfer film are fed to a print position between a platen roller and a thermal head which are mutually pressure-contacted and an image is formed on the transfer film, comprising:

• a feeding spool which winds an unused portion of the transfer film;
• a winding spool which winds a used portion of the transfer film;
• a film cassette which holds the feeding spool and the winding spool as being detachably attachable to a device frame;
• a peeling member which separates the transfer film and the ink ribbon from an overlapped state and conveys the transfer film and the ink ribbon respectively in two different directions as being arranged at the downstream side of the platen roller;
• a film conveying roller which is fixedly arranged at the downstream side of the peeling member and at the inside of the film cassette with respect to the transfer film;
• a pinch roller which is arranged at a position being faced to the film conveying roller while sandwiching the transfer film and which is movable between a pressure-contact position to cause the transfer film to be pressure-contacted to the film conveying roller and a separation position to be separated from the transfer film;
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• drive means which rotationally drives the film conveying roller,
• wherein the transfer film is displaced by a predetermined amount to the inside of the film cassette and is pressure-contacted to the film conveying roller by moving the pinch roller from the separation position to the pressure-contact position, and
• the image is formed on the transfer film while the transfer film is conveyed with rotation of the film conveying roller.