Method for transferring ink by printing method
AssigneeNippon Oil Co., Ltd.
InventorsHisatake Sato, Makoto Sasaki
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Abstract
A method for transferring ink on a plate onto a material to be printed by a printing method involves the steps of: providing the ink at predetermined positions on the plate, the ink being sensitive to a field to increase its viscosity so as to have a solidified state or a semi-solidified state; applying the field to the ink to maintain configuration of the ink provided at the predetermined positions on the plate; and transferring the ink onto the material to be printed while maintaining the ink in the solidified or semi-solidified state.
Claims15
A method for transferring ink on a plate onto a material to be printed by a printing method, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing ink at positions on a plate, the ink being sensitive to a field selected from the group consisting of an electrical field, a magnetic field, and combination thereof;
- applying the field to the ink to increase its viscosity so as to have a state selected from the group consisting of a solidified state and a semi-solidified state, so as to maintain configuration of the ink provided at the positions on the plate;
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- transferring the ink onto said material to be printed while maintaining the ink in said state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.