Transfer material, printed material, manufacturing apparatus for printed material, and manufacturing method for printed material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10131171-B2
Application number	US-201715413766-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 24, 2017
Priority date	Jan 27, 2016
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

A transfer material is provided that can be more firmly attached to an image substrate without deteriorating printing characteristics concerning image bleeding, printing resolution, and the like. An ink receiving layer is of a gap-absorbing type. An adhesive layer includes discretely disposed adhesive pieces provided on a surface of the ink receiving layer so as to leave exposed portions on the surface of the ink receiving layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A transfer material comprising:
(a) a substrate;
(b), an ink receiving layer provided on the substrate; and
(c) an adhesive layer provided on a surface of the ink receiving layer,
wherein the ink receiving layer is of a gap-absorbing type and comprises inorganic particulates and a water-soluble resin,
wherein an amount of the water-soluble resin is 3.3 to 20 pts·wt. relative to 100 pts·wt. of the inorganic particulates,
wherein the adhesive layer includes a plurality of adhesive portions discretely provided on the surface of the ink receiving layer,
wherein the surface of the ink receiving layer has (i) portions that contact the adhesive portions and (ii) exposed portions that do not contact the adhesive portions,
wherein the adhesive portions are aggregates of adhesive particles, and
wherein the transfer material can be printed with an image by causing an ink to land on the exposed portions and the adhesive portions.

2. The transfer material according to claim 1 , wherein an area of the exposed portions on the surface of the ink receiving layer accounts for 50% or more of a total area of the ink receiving layer.

3. The transfer material according to claim 1 , wherein an area of a part of each adhesive portion that contacts the ink receiving layer is smaller than a projection area of the adhesive portion as projected from a thickness direction of the adhesive layer.

4. A printed material in which an image substrate and the ink receiving layer with the image printed thereon with ink are laminated,
wherein the ink receiving layer is transferred from the transfer material according to claim 1 .

5. A manufacturing method for a printed material, the manufacturing method comprising:
a printing step of printing the image by applying ink from the adhesive layer side to the transfer material according to claim 1 ; and
a transfer step of transferring a surface of the transfer material with the image printed thereon to an image substrate.

6. The manufacturing method according to claim 5 ,
wherein, in the printing step, ink is applied using an ink jet printing system.

7. The manufacturing method according to claim 5 , further comprising:
a peeling step of peeling off the substrate after the transfer step.

Assignees

• Canon Finetech Inc
• Canon Finetech Nisca Inc

Inventors

• Sumikawa Yusuke
• Tsutsui Takahiro
• Hirabayashi Hiromitsu

Classifications

• B41M5/502 Primary

  characterised by structural details, e.g. multilayer materials (supports, backcoats or intermediate layers for thermal dye transfer donor and receiver sheets B41M5/41, B41M5/42) · CPC title

• B41M2205/10

  Post-imaging transfer of imaged layer; transfer of the whole imaged layer · CPC title

• B41M5/035

  by sublimation or volatilisation of {pre-printed} design {, e.g. sublistatic (B41M5/0256 takes precedence; printing on textiles D06P5/00)} · CPC title

• B41M5/52 Primary

  Macromolecular coatings · CPC title

• B41M7/0027

  using protective coatings or layers by lamination or by fusion of the coatings or layers · CPC title