THERMAL TRANSFER PRINTER

PURPOSE: To excellently transfer an overcoat material at a transferring end face by providing a heat insulating section for insulating a heat generated within a transfer width of the overcoat material in an area other than the transfer width of the overcoat material. CONSTITUTION: An ink film 5 and a recording paper are pinched in by a thermal head 20 and a platen roller 28. In this state, the thermal heat 20 is energized and a heat generating body is heated so as to perform printing and coating of an overcoat material. In the thermal head 20 of a thermal transfer printer, in addition to a part C' corresponding to a transfer area of the overcoat material, a dummy heat generating body which functions as an insulating section is provided in an outside area D being set as the transfer area of the overcoat material. The dummy heat generating body which exists in the area D does not contributes to the transfer of the overcoat material, but it has a function of peeling clearly a transferring end face.