The invention relates to a
thermal transfer printing mechanism with a circumferential structure and a
thermal transfer printer with the
thermal transfer printing mechanism. The thermal
transfer printing mechanism comprises a printing roller, a printing head
assembly and an integrated thermal transfer ribbon box, the printing roller is transversely and rotatably installed at the upper end of the printer rack, guide rollers are symmetrically arranged on the two sides of the vertex of the lower arc of the printing roller correspondingly, and the printing head
assembly is installed between the two installation side plates; the multiple printing head assemblies are distributed on the portions, except the bottom, of the periphery of the printing roller in the circumferential direction at equal intervals, the periphery of the printing roller is wrapped with a paper feeding film, the two ends of the paper feeding film are wound around the sides, close to each other, of the two guide rollers respectively, and the two lower sides of the paper feeding film are away from each other. The multiple integrated thermal transfer ribbon boxes are arranged at the multiple printing head assemblies in a one-to-one correspondence mode, and the integrated thermal transfer ribbon boxes are installed on the installation side plate on one side. The device has the advantages that single-time or multi-
time transfer printing of a printing medium is achieved, and the
overprinting precision is improved; and the large-angle arc-shaped paper feeding film path can enable the
photographic paper to be more closely covered on the printing roller, so that the space
utilization rate is improved.