Video printer, post-treating method thereby and post-treating sheet used therefor

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To post-treat an image receiving medium after an image is recorded by a simple operation by forming uniform gloss of minimized uneven part of an image receiving layer by pressing a recorded image receiving layer while heating it by a thermal print head through a post-treating sheet. CONSTITUTION:An operation units 50 is operated to input an instruction of a post-treatment. Thus, a heater array 20 is driven to rapidly arrive at a predetermined temperature. The smooth main face of a post-treating sheet 16 is pressed on the image receiving face of an image receiving medium 14 while being heated by the heater array 20, and fed together with the image recording medium 14 at a second predetermined speed. When the image receiving layer material of the image receiving medium 14 is arrived at the predetermined temperature higher than its softening point by the heating, the image receiving layer material is softened. Dye 56 transferred to the surface of the image receiving layer is immersed, diffused and fixed in the image receiving layer of the image receiving medium 14, the uneven part of the surface is flattened to be a mirror-face.

Inventors

• 👤 Masamichi Sato
• 👤 正倫 佐藤
• 👤 Nobuo Katsuma
• 👤 伸雄 勝間

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