Patent ID: 6897890
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording method of recording images and characters onto a recording medium overlapping a toner layer of the transfer film, that is a binary heat mode recording medium, and an image receiving layer of a receiver film to fix them onto a recording medium fixing member, setting a moving direction of the recording medium as a main scanning direction, and moving a laser recording head, that emits a light beam onto the recording medium, in a sub-scanning direction that is perpendicular to the main scanning direction, wherein the light beam from the laser recording head, which is provided with at least a multimode laser device for emitting a set of laser spot beams whose profile is substantially rectangular in the sub-scanning direction, and a conversion mirror for converting a light intensity distribution in the main scanning direction to a substantially rectangular profile, is employed, whereby, a set of rectangular lateral sectional shapes corresponding to the set of laser spot beams can be formed on the binary heat mode recording medium, and wherein a threshold level of an integral value of the light intensity in the sub-scanning direction is 0.9 (mW/μm