To provide a device for positioning a plate-shaped tool on a metal support heating plate and fixing the same thereto for cutting a part of a metallic film and transferring it onto a base formed of a paper or a board by hot pressing.

A device is provided with a means 12 of fixing tools 10 on support heating plate 3. A heat exchange face of the support heating plate 3 is continuous, and the position of the tools 10 is adjusted by the fixing means 12, and for the purpose of fixing the tool 10 on the support heating plate 3 next time, respective tools 10 can be fixed on given positions inside an adjusting area to be determined on the surface of the support heating plate 3 in the constitution of the device. The device is provided with means 7-9 of positioning the support heating plate 3 on a removable chase 1 of a thermal transfer press on the metal film section.