Claims
- 1. A method for thermally transferring an ink pattern to a recording medium, comprising the steps of:
- preparing an ink sheet having at least a transparent hot-melt material frame layer and a hot-melt and/or hot-sublimable ink frame layer thereon;
- thermally transferring the transparent hot-melt material frame layer onto a surface of a platen roller;
- thermally producing an ink pattern on the transferred transparent hot-melt frame layer on the platen roller by heating the transparent hot-melt and/or hot-sublimable ink frame layer with a thermal head; and
- thermally transferring said ink pattern produced on said transparent hot-melt material layer to the recording medium together with said transparent hot-melt frame layer.
Parent Case Info
This is a division, of application Ser. No. 990,695 filed Dec. 15, 1992 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,277,501.
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