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Thermal transfer printing

US5812173A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 11, 1996
Grant dateSep 22, 1998
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Expiry dateJun 11, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41M5/345
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Dye diffusion thermal printing method and apparatus, particulary for the preparation of 35 mm format slides using a laser as the source of thermal stimulii, in which each successive dye coat of a dye ribbon on which the dye coats are in the form of stripes extending along the longitudinal axis of the ribbon, is brought into register with a receiver sheet by effecting relative transverse movement between the ribbon and the receiver sheet.

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