PURPOSE: To enable to perform a copy, which is free from fading, to a normal paper by a dry process by means of a small-sized and inexpensive device, by a method wherein, through the exposure to an infrared permeability intermediate product film, a picture of a heat-sensitive transfer material is formed and the picture is transferred to a normal paper.
CONSTITUTION: A thin support film 11, whereon a heat-sensitive component layer 12 is applied, is placed over an original picture 14, and an infrared permeability inter-mediate product film 13 is further placed thereover. The lamination is fed between rollers 18 and 19 to exposed to a light. The original picture 14 is heated to 5W120°C by infrared rays from an infrared exposure light source 16, and a reflected picture 25 is formed on the intermediate product film 13 through the working of the heat-sensitive component layer 12. The intermediate product film 13, whereon the reflected picture 25 is formed, is overlapped on a normal picture 26, and is exposed again by an exposing device 15, which results in heat-transferring a picture, conforming to the origin image of the original picture 14, to a normal paper 26. The smoothness reduces inturn in a manner of the supporting product 11> the intermediate product 13> the normal paper 26.
ANDOU ITSUROU
SAITOU KOUICHI
HIRANO RIYOUICHI
