Printing method

Abstract

A printing method of the present disclosure includes a pre-treatment liquid adhesion step of adhering a pre-treatment liquid to a cloth and a thermal transfer step in which while a transfer medium on which an image is formed by a sublimation transfer ink jet ink containing a disperse dye and water is faced to the cloth to which the pre-treatment liquid is adhered, the image is thermal-transferred to the cloth. In the printing method described above, the pre-treatment liquid contains a polyester resin, a cross-linking agent, and water, and in the pre-treatment liquid adhesion step, the pre-treatment liquid is adhered to the cloth so that a product of a water absorbability [s] of the cloth obtained by the sedimentation method in accordance with JIS L 1907: 2010 7.1.3 and an adhesion amount [g/m2] of the polyester resin to the cloth is 8.0 to 16.0 [s·g/m2].

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