Patent ID: 9035984
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing system provide with a printing apparatus that forms an image on an intermediate transfer medium using an ink ribbon in which are disposed an image formation panel and a peel off panel and that transfers the image to a printing medium, and a host computer, comprising: an object generation/non-transfer region setting device for generating a desired image object corresponding to the printing medium, and setting a non-transfer region indicating that a transfer layer of the intermediate transfer medium is not transferred to the printing medium inside a region of the image object; a converting device for converting the image object generated in the object generation/non-transfer region setting device into printing data; a modified printing data generating device for generating modified printing data by modifying, in the printing data converted in the converting device, a gray-scale value of printing data inside the non-transfer region set by the object generation/non-transfer region setting device, printing data inside a region that is larger than the non-transfer region by a predetermined dimension and that includes the non-transfer region, or printing data of a region larger than the non-transfer region by a predetermined dimension to a predetermined gray-scale value or less, or modifying a gray-scale value of the printing data inside the non-transfer region to a predetermined gray-scale value or less while performing gradation processing in a region larger than the non-transfer region by a predetermined dimension; a printing section that has a thermal head with a plurality of heating elements lined and that peels off a transfer layer of the intermediate transfer medium by selectively heating the heating elements for the peel off panel according to position information of the non-transfer region set by the object generation/non-transfer region setting device, after forming an image on the intermediate transfer medium by selectively heating the heating elements for the image formation panel according to the modified printing data generated in the modified printing data generating device or before forming the image; and a transfer section that transfers, to the printing medium, an image with the transfer layer peeled off formed on the intermediate transfer medium in the printing section.