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Thermal transfer recording medium

US4395718A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 17, 1981
Grant dateJul 26, 1983
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Expiry dateSep 17, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41M5/345
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A thermal recording medium has two or more kinds of thermo sensitive ink on a base member thereof, and each of the inks has a different melting point and a different color. At least one of the inks also contains an achromatizing agent for concealing a color of at least one of the inks. The thermal transfer recording medium thus constructed is capable of producing multiple colors on a recording sheet by utilizing a device having only one heating head.

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