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Ken-ichi Furukawa

A color image transfer method includes performing solid printing of an image portion on a hydrophilic transfer sheet coated with a water-soluble resin with an aqueous solution ink containing a component that dissolves the resin and imparts the resin with an adhesive property for a desired time by use of an ink jet printer, scattering heat-bondable resin powder onto the solid printed portion and fixing it thereto while removing the powder from portions other than the image portion, printing with a sublimation ink so that the image may be in register with the solid-printed image, superimposing the image surface on an article to be transferred and heat pressing, and peeling off the transfer sheet from the article to be transferred by giving moisture to the transfer sheet. The method enables single-part production of articles for full color image printing and can transfer only an image portion as in screen printing.

Method for transferring a color image

A unidirectionally penetrable ornamental film comprising a laminate having a transparent resin film in which a sublimable dye is diffusible, a white coating layer on the transparent resin film a light-shielding color coating layer on the white coating layer a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on a surface of the transparent resin film opposite to a surface on which the white coating layer is provided, and a separator on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer in which throughholes having an area of 10 mm or less are formed in an opening ratio in the range of 30 to 70% and resins that constitute the white coating layer and the light-shielding color coating layer have no affinity for the sublimable dye. Also disclosed is a unidirectionally penetrable ornamental film, comprising a dye image on the ornamental film, the image being obtained by superimposing a transfer paper having recorded thereon an image with an ink containing a sublimable dye, contacting the transfer paper with the ornamental film and heating the transfer paper to pass the sublimable dye through the light-shielding color coating layer and the white coating layer to thereby transfer dye the transparent resin film in a high density.

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Chiba, Japan

Ken-ichi Furukawa