Patent ID: 7639269

Claim:
A printer that transfers to one image formation area a plurality of single colors of ink repeatedly arranged in a longitudinal direction of the ink sheet, to thus produce in an image formation area of an intermediate transfer sheet a transfer image formed as a result of lamination of single color images and that transfers the transfer image of the intermediate transfer sheet to a subject to be printed, thereby producing a desired image on the subject, the printer comprising: an ink sheet feeding section for feeding the ink sheet; an intermediate transfer sheet feeding section for feeding the intermediate transfer sheet; a printer head that is disposed so as to face a feeding path of the ink sheet and a feeding path of the intermediate transfer sheet and that transfers ink of the ink sheet to the intermediate transfer sheet; and a print head control section that transfers a position mark to a location outside the image formation area of the intermediate transfer sheet by use of a black ink area provided at a specific position of an area of another first single color of ink of the ink sheet during a course of a single color image being produced in the first single color on the intermediate transfer sheet by means of transferrin the first single color of ink from the ink sheet to the image formation area of the intermediate transfer sheet.