Claims
- 1. A method for the thermal transfer printing upon a record medium comprising the steps of:
- (a) conveying a record medium in one direction along a feed path to a print section having plural selectively operable thermal print heads;
- (b) thermally transferring a visible printing ink to a selected portion of said record medium by selectively operating said thermal print heads; and then subsequently
- (c) thermally transferring a protective transparent ink to said printed selected portion of said record medium wherein said transferred transparent ink is overlaid upon said transferred visible printing ink upon said record medium to protect the transferred visible printing ink, steps (b) and (c) being practiced utilizing a transfer printing medium having a base film and plural discrete regions of said visible printing ink deposed on said base film, said visible ink regions being separated by respective regions of said transparent ink.
- 2. A method for the transfer printing onto a record medium utilizing a thermal transfer film having plural visible transfer ink regions separated by thermally-transferable transparent protective ink regions comprising the steps of conveying the record medium to a thermal printing section having plural print heads, aligning a predetermined one of said visible ink regions with an area of said record medium to be printed, thermally activating selected ones of said print heads to cause the thermal transfer of portions of said visible ink to said record medium area, and then subsequently aligning said transparent ink region with said printed area of said record medium and again selectively energizing said print heads to cause thermal transfer of said transparent ink region to form a protective layer over said printed area of said record medium.
Priority Claims (1)
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This is a divisional of Ser. No. 762,834, filed Aug. 6, 1985 which was issued on Apr. 19, 1988 and is now U.S. Pat No. 4,738,555.
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