To provide a small-sized and inexpensive thermal recording apparatus capable of performing good recording even when recording materials different in kind are used so as to correspond to them.
A thermal head 1 applying recording having a recording width of 152 pixels to recording paper 5 by one scanning in the main scanning direction of a carriage 3 and a peeling delay roller 9 bringing the recording paper 5 and a sublimation type ink ribbon 4 into contact with each other over the predetermined distance from the recording position by the thermal head 1 before peeling them are provided to perform recording not generating the deteioration of an image even if high speed scanning is performed and also making a joint between scannings inconspicuous.
SOGAMI ATSUSHI
FUJIMORI YOSHIHISA
MATSUO HIROYUKI
TAGUCHI NOBUYOSHI