Abstract: It is intended to provide a laser thermal transfer recording method which comprises the steps of feeding an image receptor sheet and a plural number of thermal transfer sheets from a recording medium cassette, superposing the image receptor layer of the image receptor sheet upon the image formation layer of the thermal transfer sheets and holding them on a recording medium support member, and then irradiating the thermal transfer sheets with laser beams appropriate for image data to transfer the laser-irradiated regions on the image formation layer onto the image receptor layer of the image receptor sheet thereby recording an image, characterized in that the image receptor sheet and the thermal transfer sheets are laminated in the order of feeding into the recording medium support member and contained in the recording medium cassette and the coefficient(s) of static friction of the back layer surface of the image receptor sheet and/or the above-described thermal transfer sheets are 0.7 or below.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus comprises a rotary drum for attracting a recording medium to the surface thereof on which a plurality of through holes are formed, the rotary drum for attracting the recording medium via the plural holes by reducing pressure therein, a laser head for emitting a laser beam toward the recording medium on the rotary drum to record an image thereon; and a dummy sheet having an attracting area in which a plurality of through holes are formed, the area having a size substantially equal to the recording medium, the dummy sheet placed between the recording medium and the surface of the rotary drum such that the recording medium is placed on the attracting area and such that the plural through holes of the attracting area and the plural through holes of the rotary drum are superposed.

Abstract: A laser-heat transfer recording method comprising the image-recording steps of feeding an image-receiving sheet and a heat transfer sheet to an exposure-recording unit, fixing the image-forming layer in the heat transfer sheet and the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet being superposed vis-a-vis on a recording medium fixing member of the exposure-recording unit; irradiating the heat transfer sheet with laser beams corresponding to image data; and transferring the irradiated are with laser beam of the image-forming layer onto the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet, wherein the surfaces of the image-receiving sheet and/or the heat transfer sheet are cleaned by being brought into contact with an adhesive roll of a crown shape for removing foreign matters, the diameter of the central part of which is larger than the diameters of both ends in the axis direction of the roll body, provided at at least one of the feeding part of the image-receiving sheet and the heat transfer sheet of

Abstract: A laser-heat transfer recording method comprising the image-recording steps of feeding an image-receiving sheet and a heat transfer sheet to an exposure-recording unit, fixing the image-forming layer in the heat transfer sheet and the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet being superposed vis-a-vis on a recording medium fixing member of the exposure-recording unit; irradiating the heat transfer sheet with laser beams corresponding to image data; and transferring the irradiated are with laser beam of the image-forming layer onto the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet, wherein the surfaces of the image-receiving sheet and/or the heat transfer sheet are cleaned by being brought into contact with an adhesive roll of a crown shape for removing foreign matters, the diameter of the central part of which is larger than the diameters of both ends in the axis direction of the roll body, provided at at least one of the feeding part of the image-receiving sheet and the heat transfer sheet of

Abstract: It is the purpose of the present invention to provide an image recording method and image recording apparatus for performing high-density recording without degrading the resolution. A desired image is recorded on a recording medium by exposing the image on the recording medium while moving the recording medium in the main scan direction where a toner layer of a transfer sheet is overlaid on an image reception layer of an image reception sheet as well as moving a plurality of laser beam spots arranged on the recording medium in the sub-scan direction orthogonal to the main scan direction. In this practice, a recording process on the transfer sheet is repeated a plurality of times to record a same image repeatedly with transfer sheets replaced after the transfer sheet has been exposed.

Abstract: A laser beam emitted from a high output semiconductor laser 101 is irradiated into an interference type optical shutter 105 by a first optical system 103 as a wide laser beam along a predetermined direction which intersects with an emitted direction of the laser beam, and also a voltage which mates with the images to be recorded on the recording medium 3 is selectively applied to the electrode pairs of the interference type optical shutter 105, thus the laser beam being input into the interference type optical shutter 105 is optically modulated by an electro-mechanical operation of a flexible thin film to thus irradiate onto the recording medium 3 via a second optical system 107. Accordingly, the image recording apparatus with high reliability, which is able to record the image on the recording medium in the heat mode at high speed by using the high power laser, can be provided.

Abstract: In a recording apparatus, a recording medium is fixed to a recording medium fixing member. To record a desired image, the recording medium is exposed to light containing image/character data, while the recording medium is moved in the main scan direction, and a plurality of spots arrayed on the recording medium are moved in a direction orthogonal to the main scan direction. In the recording apparatus, first and second exposure operations are performed. In the first exposure operation, the recording medium is exposed to the light containing image/character data, while forming pixel groups or island patterns each consisting of a predetermined number of pixels consecutively arrayed on the recording medium in the main and sub-scan directions. In a second exposure operation and the subsequent ones, the pixels in an unexposed area other than the island patterns on the recording medium are successively exposed to the light.

Abstract: In the recording apparatus 121, a recording medium fixing member 123 having a plurality of suction ports on the fixed surface to fix the recording medium 101; an adhering roller 143 which can contact with or separate from the recording medium fixing member 123 and which cleans the fixed surface; a flexible plate 137 which is attached onto the fixed surface of the recording medium fixing member 123 and whose contact surface with the recording medium is cleaned by the adhering roller 143; and a suction apparatus for recording medium fixing which sucks the air from the suction ports of the recording medium fixing member 123 and sucks and fixes the flexible plate 137 and the recording medium 101 onto the fixed surface of the recording medium fixing member 123, are provided.

Abstract: An image recording system is disclosed. The system comprises a rotatable recording drum on which an image receiving sheet and plural kinds of image recording mediums are mounted, an optical head for recording image information by exposing a laser beam to the image recording mediums while moving in one-dimensional direction at a speed in proportion to the rotation speed of the recording drum, a characteristics input section in which characteristics of the image recording medium is previously inputted, a conversion table storage section in which there is previously stored a conversion table converting the characteristics of the image recording mediums into setup values of parameters with respect to the image recording, and a parameter control section changing the setup values of the parameters based on the conversion table stored in the conversion table storage section in accordance with the kind of the image recording medium.

Abstract: In an image recording process comprising the steps of superposing a transfer film on an receiver film, said transfer film having an opto-thermal converting layer and a toner layer on a support and said receiver film having an image receiving layer on a support, said toner layer being opposed to said image forming layer, transferring said toner layer onto said image receiving layer by exposure of laser beam, and stripping said transfer film from said receiver film to form an image, the thickness of said opto-thermal converting layer is adjusted such that the distance from the position where a peak temperature occurs in the direction of thickness of the opto-thermal converting layer to said toner layer is within the range from zero to a third of the thickness of said opto-thermal converting layer. This design permits satisfactory image recording without undesired density drop.

Abstract: An image recording method comprises the steps of attaching recording paper on an outer peripheral surface of a recording drum, attaching an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer on the recording paper to transfer the image receiving layer thereon, attaching a toner sheet on the image recording sheet, and transferring toner of the toner sheet onto the image receiving layer in accordance with recording data.

Abstract: A recording apparatus removes foreign objects adhering to a recording medium over a long period of time, so that images having no defects caused by foreign objects are obtained over a long period of time. The recording apparatus includes a recording medium supply section, a recording medium conveyance section, a record medium cutting section, and a recording section. An adhesive rubber roller containing TiOx (titanium oxide) and a hydrocarbon compound, having a functional group of C—O or Si—O and not containing Ba (barium), is used in at least one of the recording medium supply section, recording medium conveyance section, recording medium cutting section and recording section.

Abstract: Pixel shapes 90a′ formed by respective optical shutters 90′ are set to parallelograms, and an alignment of the parallelograms is set to overlap partially with recording loci K of parallelogram pixels formed by adjacent optical shutters when scanning is executed in the main scanning direction.

Abstract: To provide a recording apparatus capable of executing the stable recording not to waste the light energy even when the power/wavelength of the light beam in the recording apparatus, that records the image/characters onto the recording medium like the data by employing the light beam, are changed, the circumstances such as the temperature, the humidity, etc. are changed, and the recording velocity is changed.

Abstract: The package of recording media contains a set of recording media which are pre-stacked in a predetermined order is provided to a recording medium holding member so that immediately after the package is opened, the recording media are disposed in a recording apparatus at a time. This package, by avoiding a need of manual stacking of the recording media, lowers a possibility of each recording medium being contaminated with foreign particles so as to reduce resultant image defects. Further, a recording feed cassette stacking the recording media in said manner can achieve the same effect.

Abstract: When desired images are recorded on an image receiving sheet 140 by laminating a toner layer of a transfer sheet 240 as heat-mode sensitive material and an image receiving layer of an image receiving sheet 140 to be fixed to a recording medium fixing member 310 and exposing the transfer sheet 240 of a recording medium while moving the recording medium fixing member 310 in a main scanning direction and also moving a plurality of aligned laser beam spots in a vertical scanning direction that is perpendicular to the main scanning direction, exposure is carried out by laser beam spots which are inclined such that a spot on an upstream end in the vertical scanning direction is positioned on a downstream side in the main scanning direction rather than a spot on a downstream end in the vertical scanning direction.

Abstract: An air blowing unit is arranged so as to blow air toward a side edge of a sheet discharged from a discharging port. Alternatively, the air is blew from below the discharged sheet.

Abstract: An optical shutter is provided in the middle of a triopical path of the recording laser. Before a recording operation of data such as the images and the characters, the optical shutter is closed and also a recording laser light is outputted from the LD at a predetermined output rate. Then, immediately before the recording start of the data, the output of the recording laser is interrupted and also the optical shutter is opened, and then the recording of the data is started. Accordingly, there can be provided the image recording apparatus which is able to set the recording laser into its stabilized output state to record immediately after the recording start and to prevent generation of the irregularity of the images, the unevenness of the line width, etc.

Abstract: A laser beam emitted from a high output semiconductor laser 101 is irradiated into an interference type optical shutter 105 by a first optical system 103 as a wide laser beam along a predetermined direction which intersects with an emitted direction of the laser beam, and also a voltage which mates with the images to be recorded on the recording medium 3 is selectively applied to the electrode pairs of the interference type optical shutter 105, thus the laser beam being input into the interference type optical shutter 105 is optically modulated by an electromechanical operation of a flexible thin film to thus irradiate onto the recording medium 3 via a second optical system 107. Accordingly, the image recording apparatus with high reliability, which is able to record the image on the recording medium in the heat mode at high speed by using the high power laser, can be provided.

Abstract: A recording medium station 53 includes sheet set portions to which rolls of toner sheets 4′ with cover films 6 stuck thereto and rolls of image receiving sheets 2′ with cover films 6 stuck thereto are set, and cover film winding-up portions located close to the sheet set portions. Those sheet set portions and the cover film winding-up portions are disposed along the circumferential outer surface of the recording medium station 53. An end of the cover film 6 slightly stripped off the recording medium is fixed to the wind-up shafts 12, and the cover film 6 stripped off the recording medium set to the medium setting shafts 10 is wound up with a wind-up shaft 12. The stripped cover film 6 is wound up with the wind-up shafts 12.