A ribbon cassette and a printer are provided for preventing an ink ribbon from being wound or drawn to a printing-portion paper transport unit of the printer so as to satisfactorily wind and transport the ink ribbon. In one aspect, a reticle can include a quartz-containing substrate, an attenuating layer, and an antireflective structure between the attenuating layer and the quartz-containing substrate. The user then presses the reset button. A pre-repair-passivation-treatment is performed to form a passivation membrane over the mask.