TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM AND ITS PREPARATION

PURPOSE:To obtain a transfer recording medium capable of forming a high grade transfer image to plain paper and capable of performing high speed recording, medium contrast recording and multicolor recording, by thermally fusing an image forming element coated with a heat-meltable coating material to a base material. CONSTITUTION:A base material 1a is contacted with the surface of a hot plate to be heated to a temp. almost equal to the heat-meltable temp. of a coating material 1e and microcapsules are excessively scattered to the base material 1a and, continuously, excessive microcapsules are shaken off. At this time, only the microcapsules contacted with the base material 1a are melted to be adhered to the base material 1a and the other microcapsules not adhered are shaken off. After cooling a transfer recording medium wherein the microcapsules are bonded to the base material in a single layer is obtained. Since a substance disturbing transfer such as a binder is not adhered to the image forming elements of the transfer recording medium, good transfer recording is performed. Further since only the part where the base material is in contact with the image forming elements has bonding strength, the mutual adhesion and superposition of adjacent image forming elements are prevented and all of the image forming elements are arranged to the base material in a single layer with high possibility.