Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha

Dai Nippon Insatsu K.k.

Akio Kawasaki

Fumio Takagi

Eisuke Arai

Kuniaki Kamei

Koichi Shirai

Yasuharu Orihara

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.

Transfer printing apparatus

Transfer printing method

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Urawa, Japan

Akio Kawasaki