Patent ID: 9242498
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: B41J,B41M,C09D

Claim Text:
1. A printing method for printing on a printing medium comprising: discharging, by a droplet discharge head, a first ink containing a first polymerization initiator and a first polymerizable compound on the printing medium to form a first layer; discharging, by the droplet discharge head, a plurality of droplets of a second ink that contains a second polymerization initiator and a second polymerizable compound to form on the first layer a plurality of discrete dots that correspond to the droplets, respectively, such that adjacent ones of the dots that have been formed on the first layer are spaced apart from each other; curing the first ink and the second ink; and discharging, by the droplet discharge head, the first ink on the first layer and the dots such that all outer surface of each of the dots is surrounded by the first ink, a glass transition point of a cured substance of the second ink being greater than a glass transition point of a cured substance of the first ink.