JP3012169U - Fax paper - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a facsimile paper that enables printing and printing on other printing media such as plain paper that does not use thermal paper in a facsimile using a thermal head that is widely used. . [Structure] An ink sheet and a print medium are wound in a roll shape. With the ink sheet, it is possible to form a permanent image on the surface of the print medium. By applying a fixing agent to the roll end surface of the paper, the ink sheet and the printing surface are characterized by having stable paper feeding characteristics without deviation or separation. [Effects] The facsimile output of the printed result has improved storability depending on the selection of the paper material, enables use and application to other fields, and increases the utility value of the facsimile device itself.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile paper which enables printing without using thermal paper in a facsimile using a thermal head.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Thermal head type facsimiles such as home facsimiles have high function and multi-functions such as those capable of facsimile transmission of books and the like by removing an image reading portion and having a copying function. Has advanced. However, it cannot be said that the improvement of print output, which is one of the important factors for fax machines, has progressed, and the range of its use and application was naturally limited. As a result, there was a limit to its spread in households.

In conventional facsimiles using a thermal head, the heat-sensitive agent is colored by the heat generated in the thermal head to form an image. Therefore, problems such as bleeding of printed characters due to heat transfer to the periphery of the printed characters during printing and discoloration of margins on the printed surface over time and discoloration of printed parts tend to occur in terms of storability and contrast.

[0004]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Therefore, when the facsimile output is stored for a long time as a material, the result output by the facsimile is re-copied by a copying machine or printed on plain paper. A method such as the use of a fax machine with a mechanism that can be performed was considered. However, when a copying machine is used, it is necessary to prepare a separate copying machine because it takes time and effort for copying and wastes resources. In addition, when the latter device that can use plain paper was used, the device was more complicated and larger than the thermal head type facsimile, and the installation location was limited, so it was not suitable for widespread use at home.

In view of the above, the present invention solves the problems of color bleeding of the facsimile output and discoloration of the printing surface caused by the use of thermal paper in the most popular thermal head type facsimiles at present, and improves the storage stability. It aims to develop a new field of facsimile paper. The use of the thermal head type facsimile has the following drawbacks. (B) It was necessary to use a special paper (thermosensitive paper) having a thermochromic property as the printing paper. (B) When using the above car paper, problems such as bleeding of the outline of characters tended to occur in contrast. (C) When using the above-mentioned special paper, it was not suitable for long-term storage, such as discoloration of margins and printed areas, and careful control of temperature in storage areas. (D) It is difficult to print on a printing medium other than thermal paper, and (e) application of the facsimile output result (output medium) to other than output display of the transmission result could not be considered.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide another printing medium, such as plain paper, which does not use thermal paper, in a facsimile using a thermal head which is widely used in general. We provide facsimile paper that can be printed and printed on top.

[0007]

A facsimile paper according to claim 1 of the present invention is a facsimile paper using a thermal head. (A) An ink sheet on which a sublimable ink is laminated, and a printing surface receiving surface of a printing medium such as plain paper. A facsimile paper capable of thermally transferring and printing the sublimable ink using a layer, comprising: (b) the ink layer in the ink sheet and the print receiving layer such as the plain paper facing each other and overlapping. A print medium such as an ink sheet and plain paper is wound in a roll shape, and (c) by applying a fixing agent such as an adhesive to the end surface of the roll, the print surface of the ink sheet and plain paper is displaced or separated. The feature is that it has stable paper feeding characteristics without causing paper feeding. The present invention is a facsimile paper configured as described above.

[0008]

According to the present invention, the sublimation ink on the laminated ink sheets can be formed by using the facsimile paper of the present invention in the facsimile using the thermal head without special improvement of the facsimile apparatus by the above-mentioned constitution. Is transferred to the printing surface by the heat of the thermal head, and it is possible to perform permanent image formation on the printing medium surface (printing surface 1) including the plain paper on the roll without using thermal paper.

The printing surface (or printing medium) of the plain paper or the like of the present invention may be any material such as transparent film, leather, vinyl, thin film metal, cloth, etc. to which the ink agent can be attached and fixed.

[0010]

[Embodiment] In a thermal head type facsimile, a sublimable ink on an ink sheet is heated according to a transmission signal by a thermal head, which conventionally causes a thermal paper to color by loading a facsimile paper according to the present invention. It can be melted and adhered to the opposite printing surface for printing and image formation. In this case, the material for the printing surface does not have to be selected as long as the ink can be attached and fixed, and in the facsimile which was conventionally limited to the use of thermal paper, printing can be performed without being limited to a specific print medium. It will be possible. As a result, new usage and value are brought about in the facsimile. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(A) A thermal transfer ink sheet 2 of the same shape and size is superposed on a printing surface 1 of strip-shaped plain paper or the like and wound in a roll shape. (B) Further, by applying a fixing agent 5 such as an adhesive to the entire roll end surface 4 of the above-mentioned facsimile paper 3, the ink sheet 2 of the facsimile paper and the print medium 6 are transferred onto the facsimile paper 3 by the sending roller of the facsimile. It is peeled and pulled out from the outer peripheral portion 8 of the roll end surface, and is fed without peeling or misalignment while the ink sheet 2 of the facsimile paper and both side portions 7 of the printing medium 6 are joined. (C) Further, if the sent original (ink sheet 2 and print medium 6) is pulled in both up and down directions (pulling direction 9) as shown in FIG. 2, the unnecessary ink sheet film 2 can be easily removed. it can. (D) Many of the popular household facsimile machines do not have a paper cutter (a device that automatically cuts facsimile paper from page to page). Therefore, when the paper is cut off, the ink sheet 2 is a resin film, which is inconvenient to cut by hand. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, a large number of perforations 10 or notches 11 are formed in both side portions 7 of the ink sheet 2 so that the film (ink sheet 2) and easy-to-cut paper (print medium 6) can be cut from anywhere in the horizontal direction. ) Solved the inconvenience so that he could cut it by hand.

With this method, the following is also possible. (E) Transmission of printed circuit board wiring pattern by facsimile As shown in FIG. 4, the printed wiring pattern transmitted by facsimile is transferred to the print base 15 having a double-layer structure composed of the copper thin film 13 and the film substrate 14 by a thermal transfer film. Printing is performed using (ink sheet 2), and unnecessary conductor portions to which ink is not transferred are corroded and removed with an etching liquid. As a result, an actually usable wiring pattern can be transmitted through a telephone line, an ISDN line, the Internet, etc., and the pattern can be used. (F) Electronic transmission of originals of printed matter such as newspapers and magazines Some facsimiles have a function of converting grayscale data such as halftone (halftone) photos and images into black and white dot data and transmitting it. Yes, you can directly transfer the photo data such as the data collection destination by facsimile, output the data converted into dot data to the facsimile, and use it as the printing material as it is. Therefore, the usable reception signal can be directly transferred to the transparent film 17 by the facsimile paper 16 according to the present invention shown in FIG. 5, and can be used for plate making or read by a plate making device. (G) Direct production of printing of film for projector Another use of the original document (transparent film 17) facsimile-outputted on the transparent film 17 is to use a projector or the like to form a formed image on the film 17 without using a copying machine. It can be projected and displayed directly on the screen and used in meetings.

[0013]

As is apparent from the above, according to the present invention, in the facsimile using the thermal head, the ink layer in the ink sheet on which the sublimable ink is laminated and the receiving layer on the printing surface of the plain paper are formed. A facsimile paper which is a roll of a print medium such as the ink sheet and the plain paper so as to face each other, and which is sublimable on a film by using the ink sheet and a printing surface receiving layer such as the plain paper. A means that enables thermal transfer and printing of the ink layer, and by applying a fixing agent such as an adhesive to the end surface of the roll, the ink sheet and the plain paper can be stabilized without deviation or separation from the printing surface. Since it employs a structure that provides a means for providing paper feeding characteristics, it is heat-sensitive in a facsimile machine that uses a thermal head, without any special improvements to the device. By using the facsimile paper of the present invention without using the sublimation ink, the sublimable ink on the laminated ink sheets is transferred to the printing surface by the heat of the thermal head, and a permanent image is printed on the printing medium surface such as plain paper on the roll. It becomes possible to form, and by using this proposal, it is possible to provide facsimile paper that enables facsimile output to paper other than paper, and expand its application and application range. In addition, the printed output of the facsimile output medium has better storability depending on the selection of its material, and it can be used and applied to other fields, increasing the utility value of the facsimile device itself. Become. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to use in a facsimile, but can be applied to general printing equipment such as a printer.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view regarding the use of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view (enlarged perspective view) of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective (enlarged) view showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view (enlarged) showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Printing surface 2 Ink sheet 3
Facsimile paper 4 Roll end surface 5 Fixing agent such as adhesive 6
Print medium 7 Both sides 8 Roll end face outer circumference 9
Pull direction 10 Perforation 11 Notch 1
2 Film surface 13 Copper thin 14 Film substrate 1
5 Print base 16 Facsimile paper 17 Transparent film

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. In a facsimile using a thermal head, the ink sheet and the plain paper are formed such that the ink layer in the ink sheet laminated with sublimable ink and the receiving layer on the printing surface of the plain paper face and overlap each other. A facsimile paper in which a print medium is wound in a roll shape, and means for thermally transferring and printing a sublimable ink layer on a film using the ink sheet and a printing surface receiving layer such as plain paper, A facsimile machine provided with means for applying a fixing agent such as an adhesive to the end surface of the roll so as to provide stable feeding characteristics without causing deviation or separation of the printing surface such as the ink sheet and the plain paper. Paper