Patent ID: 7042530

Claim:
A transfer apparatus comprising: a light source; a transmission-type image display device in which a liquid crystal layer is held between two sets of substrates and polarizing plates; and a photosensitive recording medium, wherein the light source, the transmission-type image display device and the photosensitive recording medium are arranged in series along a direction in which light from the light source advances, and a display image transmitted from the transmission-type image display device is transferred to the photosensitive recording medium, and wherein the transmission-type image display device and the photosensitive recording medium are arranged in a non-contact state, and a distance between the transmission-type image display device and the photosensitive recording medium and a sum total of thicknesses of a substrate and a polarizing plate at least on a side of the photosensitive recording medium in the transmission-type image display device are set in accordance with a definition of the display image.