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AssigneeDai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsEisuke Arai, Kuniaki Kamei, Akio Kawasaki, Fumio Takagi, Koichi Shirai, Yasuharu Orihara
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A printing pattern support sheet made up of a film soluble in water and a pattern pre-printed on one surface of the film is prepared beforehand. The pattern is activated, immediately before being used for transfer printing, into a tacky or adherent condition ready for printing by applying a solvent thereto. The sheet with the pattern thus activated is fed onto the free surface of a mass of water, whereby the film supporting the pattern is dissolved in the water to leave the pattern floating on the surface of the water. An article on the surface of which the pattern is to be printed is then forced against the floating pattern into the water, whereby the pattern is transferred and adheres to the article. To apply the solvent to the pattern, a gravure printing plate cylinder can be used.
A method for transfer printing on an article comprising the steps of:
The method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising the step of ejecting said liquid to said side edges of the sheet before the sheet is fed to the surface of the liquid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.