| abstract |
The intermediate medium is an endless belt wound around and spans intermediate medium transport rollers and a transfer roller. Ink jet heads are disposed outside of the loop, their nozzles facing to the intermediate medium. A phase-changeable ink is ejected from the ink jet heads onto the intermediate medium to form an intermediate image. The intermediate image is pressed against a recording medium and transferred onto the recording medium whose surface to be recorded is directly heated in advance, and a final image is obtained. In this way, double-sided printing can be performed without any damage on the printed side. |