Patent ID: 6290798
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: B41M,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for forming a printed product comprising steps of;preparing an intermediate transfer recording medium comprising at least a base film and a transfer layer which comprises at least a receptor layer to be formed on the base film separably and born an image, and usable for transferring the transfer layer after bearing the image on a transfer-receiving material, andan adhesive layer transfer sheet comprising at least a substrate sheet and a transferring adhesive layer formed on the substrate sheet to be separable, in which the transferring adhesive layer comprises at least an uppermost layer having an adhesive property suitable for the receptor layer of the intermediate transfer recording medium and arranged at a farthest portion from the substrate sheet, and a basement layer having an adhesive property suitable for a surface of the transfer-receiving material, forming a different material from a material of the uppermost layer, and arranged at a closest portion from the substrate sheet,carrying out a first transfer step in which the transferring adhesive layer is transferred on the transfer layer bearing the image in advance, anda second transfer step in which the transfer layer on which the transferring adhesive layer is transferred, transfers on the transfer-receiving material, and thenthe transfer layer bearing the image is transferred on the transfer-receiving material via the transferring adhesive layer,wherein the first transfer step is the step in which a transfer-pattern of the transferring adhesive layer is thermal-transferred on the transfer layer bearing images in advance, and the second is the step in which the transfer layer having the same transfer-pattern as the transfer-pattern formed on the transferring adhesive layer transferred on the transfer layer, is roller-transferred on the transfer-receiving material via the transferring adhesive layer;wherein the adhesive layer transfer sheet comprises at least one coloring material layer selected from the group consisting of sublimation dye layers having various colors and heat fusible ink layers having various colors, and the transferring adhesive layer, and these layers are formed so as to laterally arranged them along the surface of the substrate sheet, andin the first transfer step, the image is formed through migrating the coloring material from the coloring material layer formed on the adhesive layer transfer sheet, before the transferring adhesive layer of the adhesive layer transfer sheet is transferred on the transfer layer of the intermediate transfer recording medium.