Mimaki Engineering Company, Ltd.

Kazuyuki Takeuchi

Akira Ikeda

Masayoshi Morisawa

Katsumi Nakayashiki

To provide an inkjet printer and a printing method that can print a new pattern to be printed at an appropriate position relative to an existing pattern. An inkjet printer newly prints a new pattern to be printed, that is different from an existing pattern, on an outer surface of a spherical print object on which the existing pattern is printed. The inkjet printer includes a retainer that retains the print object, a carriage, and a projector. The carriage prints the new pattern to be printed on the outer surface of the print object. The projector projects at least a part of the existing pattern and the new pattern to be printed together on the outer surface of the print object retained by the retainer.

Inkjet printer and printing method

The present invention addresses the problem of forming, using a sublimation ink, an image that is free of outline blurring on a transfer medium even when the thickness of an ink fixation layer is increased. In order to solve this problem, a transfer filmis provided with a base material film, a transfer binder layer, a sublimation ink layer, and a mask layerwhich is provided in a region where sublimation ink is not transferred to media, the transfer binder layerbeing configured from a material which is permeated by sublimation of the sublimation ink.

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Nagano, Japan

Kazuyuki Takeuchi