Patent ID: 6720126
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: B41J,B41M

Abstract:
A laser thermal transfer recording method comprising the steps of:feeding an image receptor sheet comprising an image receptor layer and a plural number of thermal transfer sheets each comprising at least a photothermal conversion layer, an image formation layer and a substrate from a recording medium cassette; superposing the image receptor layer of the image receptor sheet upon the image formation layer of the thermal transfer sheets to hold them on a recording medium support member; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheets with laser beams appropriate for image data to transfer the laser-irradiated regions on the image formation layer onto the image receptor layer of the image receptor sheet thereby recording an image, wherein the image receptor sheet and the thermal transfer sheets are laminated in an order of feeding into the recording medium support member and contained in the recording medium cassette, and a coefficient of static friction of a back layer surface of at least one of the image receptor sheet and the thermal transfer sheets is 0.7 or below.