Patent ID: 9174482
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: B41F,B41M,B42D

Abstract:
1. A transfer apparatus for bringing a heating member and a transfer platen into press-contact with each other via a transfer film and transferring an image formed on the transfer film to a recording medium, comprising: an image transfer section, having the heating member and the transfer platen, configured to be able to shift between an actuation position in which the heating member and the transfer platen are brought into press-contact with each other and a retracted position in which the heating member and the transfer platen are separated; a recording medium transport device transporting the recording medium; a peeling member disposed on a downstream side in a transfer film transport direction in image transfer by the image transfer section to peel off the transfer film from the recording medium; a transfer film transport device transporting the transfer film on the downstream side of the peeling member in the transfer film transport direction in image transfer; a control device for controlling the transfer film transport device to change a peeling tension of the transfer film in peeling off the transfer film from the recording medium; and a reverse unit that reverses the side of the recording medium subjected to transfer, wherein the control device determines an intensity of the peeling tension of the transfer film corresponding to a temperature of the recording medium, and in reversing the recording medium in in the reverse unit after front side transfer of the recording medium and transferring to a back side, the control device judges that a temperature of the recording medium is high, and makes a peeling tension during transfer to the back side is lower than a peeling tension during transfer to the front side.