INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER FOIL AND POSITIONING METHOD THEREOF

• Main Authors: MAEHIRA MAKOTO, HAMADA HIDENORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 30.04.2020
• Subjects: COLOUR PRINTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide an intermediate transfer foil capable of suitably recording a specific pattern containing features such as logo, mark or emblem and fine shapes and patterns, in addition to record of color image such as ordinary face photographs or character image, when information such as images is recorded on a recording medium according to an indirect thermal transfer recording method.SOLUTION: In a transfer layer provided on a base film, a plurality of transfer regions 11b having a predetermined size to be transferred on a recording medium together with recording images 13b, 14b recorded by a thermal transfer method are set at a constant pitch along a flow direction of the base film, at a definite position of each of transfer regions, a solid pattern 12b containing at least one of a pattern of characteristic ink of a color different from an ink of a thermal transfer ink ribbon, a pattern of a special ink exhibiting special visual effect, or a high definition pattern is formed by printing in advance.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】間接熱転写記録方式で記録媒体に画像等の情報を記録する場合に、通常の顔写真等のカラー画像や文字画像の記録に加え、ロゴ、マークや紋章など特色や細かい形状や模様を含む特定パターンの記録を好適に行える中間転写箔を提供する。【解決手段】基材フィルム上に設けられた転写層に、熱転写記録された記録画像１３ｂ、１４ｂと共に記録媒体に転写される所定の大きさの転写領域１１ｂが基材フィルムの流れ方向に沿って一定ピッチで複数設定され、転写領域それぞれの一定位置に、熱転写インクリボンのインクと異なる色の特色インキのパターン、特殊な視覚効果を呈する特殊インキのパターン、または高精細なパターン、のうち少なくとも一つを含む固定パターン１２ｂが、あらかじめ印刷されて形成されている。【選択図】図１