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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2017
Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to reduce variations in pressing force of a printing nip to make the printing pressure uniform, an apparatus that performs printing on a substrate using a roll-to-roll method according to an aspect of the present application includes: an ink supply member that supplies a printing ink; a blanket cylinder () that transfers part of the ink, which has been supplied from the ink supply member and applied on a surface of the blanket cylinder, onto the substrate; a roller mold () that removes part of the ink applied on the surface of the blanket cylinder (); a base () on which the blanket cylinder () is fixed; a slider () that supports the roller mold () and moves on the base (); a moving resistance reduction device () that reduces a moving resistance of the slider () relative to the base (); and a roller mold nip device () that applies, to the roller mold (), a nip pressure against the blanket cylinder ().