Abstract:
An image used for alignment of an image to be thermally transferred to a transfer target medium is transferred and fixed to a release sheet. Subsequently, the release sheet is sent to a two-sided printing conveyance unit and the front and back sides of the release sheet are reversed. Then, a mirror image of the image to be thermally transferred to the transfer target medium and a thermoplastic resin image overlaid on the mirror image are transferred and fixed to the release sheet. As a result, a thermal transfer print sheet including the release sheet, an alignment image layer, a mirror image layer, and a transfer base material layer is created.
Abstract:
Provided are a position detection device, a printing apparatus equipped with the position detection device and a position detection method which make it possible to set an original point on a deviation-free appropriate position with no need of highly accurate adjustment of built-in positions of a linear encoder and an original point sensor. In a case where a point that low-to-high switching of an output from a scale sensor is detected is set as a light transmission timing, a point that high-to-low switching of the output is detected is set as a light shielding timing and an output change point that an original point sensor detects is set as a detection timing, in a duration time D1 which lasts from the detection timing to a first light transmission timing which is the closest to the detection timing and a duration time D2 which lasts from the detection timing to a first light shielding timing which is the closest to the detection timing, when the duration time D1>the duration time D2, a position of a moving body which is obtained at a second light transmission timing is set as an original point and when the duration time D1