Patent ID: 6864034
Filing Date: 2005-03-08
Classification: B32B,B41M

Abstract:
1. A transfer material transfer method for transferring a transfer material to a transfer object by superposing the transfer material with the transfer object and nipping and heating the superposed transfer material and transfer object between pressuring structures disposed in opposition, the process comprising the steps of: forming one of the pressuring structures of light-transmissive material; forming a photothermal conversion layer which absorbs light emitted from a light source and generates heat, at a face of the one pressuring structure which is at a transfer material side thereof; forming a temporary support layer between the photothermal conversion layer and the transfer material; pressuring the transfer object together with the transfer material between the opposing pressuring structures; and during the step of pressuring, irradiating the light emitted from the light source to the photothermal conversion layer from the light-transmissive material side of the photothermal conversion layer, to heat the transfer material for transferring the transfer material to the transfer object.