To make it possible to collectively treat a large amount of thermal transfer ink ribbon in a short time.
This device recovers a thermal transfer ink from the ink ribbon 10A wound with an ink film 10 the base 11 of which is coated with the thermal transfer ink (a thermal transfer ink layer). In addition, the device comprises a preheating part 20 which preheats the ink ribbon 10A charged from a charging part 1, a heating part 5 equipped with an electromagnetic wave generator 5a which regularly heats the ink ribbon 10A by irradiating it with an electromagnetic wave, a pressurizing part 6 such as a pressurizing roller or a pressurizing plate which pressurizes the ink ribbon 10A heated by the heating part 5, a scraping part 7 which scrapes the thermal transfer ink sticking to the surface of the pressurizing part 6, a recovery part 8 which recovers the scraped thermal transfer ink In, a discharge part 9 which discharges an ink ribbon 10B out of which the thermal transfer ink In is squeezed by the pressurizing part 6, and so forth.
HAYASHI MASAFUMI
YOKOUCHI KAZUNORI
