PURPOSE: To enable recording good in preservability, by such a relatively simple mechanism that wax like inks having a plurality of colors are adhered to a ribbon tape of which the surface is subjected to special treatment and the adhered inks on said tape are thermally transferred.

CONSTITUTION: Rod shaped ends part of the ink blue 62, the ink yellow 63, the ink red and the ink black of wax like ink 60 are pressed on the tape surface 50 of a ribbon tape 40 in a case 31 while a protruded part 47 and a recessed part 48 are formed to the side of the tape surface 50. The pressed wax like ink 60 is scraped by the protruded part 47 while the scraped ink 49 is embedded in the recessed part 48 and this operation is successively performed by the running of the ribbon tape 40 to perform the supply of the ink 49.