Color ink transfer printing

Details Color ink transfer printing Color ink transfer printing

1992-11-30

1996-01-02

Fuller, Benjamin R.

Recorders

Markers and/or driving means therefor

With ink supply to marker

B41J 2005

Patent

active

054812801

ABSTRACT:
A color ink transfer printing device in which ink transfer is driven by a viscosity change in ink. The color ink transfer printing device includes a viscosity control unit and first through fourth ink containers for retaining colored ink held under pressure. Each of the ink containers retains a different color ink. The first through fourth ink containers are respectively associated with first through fourth perforated ink transfer surfaces. Under ambient conditions, the viscosity of the colored ink prevents flow of the colored ink through the perforations. The viscosity control unit induces a change in the viscosity of the colored ink near certain perforations, thereby enabling a controlled amount of the colored ink near each of the certain perforations to flow through these certain perforations and onto the ink transfer surface corresponding thereto. The colored ink which has flowed onto the ink transfer surface can then be transferred to an intermediate surface or a printing media. A method for viscosity-driven color ink transfer printing is also disclosed. The present invention enables a color printer, a color copier, or the like to provide high resolution printed images at low cost.

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